The Tibetan Book Of The Dead - Part 25
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As it confers liberation through contact, there is no need for training.

As it confers liberation through feeling, there is no need for reflection.

This [mantra circle] confers natural liberation whenever it is encountered.

This is the natural liberation of the psycho-physical aggregates.

This is a field of experience of the fortunate!

[PART ONE].

How wonderful!

The enlightened intention of the father Samantabhadra Manifests as the following naturally present mantra syllables of Atiyoga: OM AH HUM3 EMA KIRI KIRI MASTABHALIBHALI SAMITASURUSURU KUNDHALIMASUMASU EKARILISUBHASTAYE CAKIRABHULITA CAYESAMUNTA CARYASUGHAYE BHITISANABHYAGHULIYE SAKARIDHUKANI MATARIBHETANA PARALIHISANA MAKHARTAKELANA SAMBHURATA MAIKACARATAMBA SURYAGHATARAYE BASHANA RANABHITI SAGHUTIPAYA GHU-RAGHURAPAGAKHARa.n.a.lAM NARANARAYI THARAPATALAM SIRNASIRNABHESARASPALAM BHUDDHABHUDDHACHISASAGHELAM SASA R II MAMA RARA LAHA A4 This is the twenty-six line supreme essential mantra, Through which the enlightened intention of Samantabhadra Will naturally liberate mental apprehension in awareness, As an indestructible chain of light, primordially pure and indivisible from Samantabhadra [when it is worn at the time of death], While [externally] a cloudless sky will appear.

How wonderful!

The enlightened intention of the mother Samantabhadr Manifests as the following naturally present mantra-syllables of Atiyoga.

This is the essential mantra, liberating body, speech and mind in primordial purity: OM AH HUM EMA KIRI KIRI MASTABHALI SAMITASURUSURU KUNDHALIMASU EKARILISUBHASTAYE CATABHULITA CAYESAMUNTA CARYASUGhAYE BHITISANABHYAGHUYE KIRIDHAKINI DHAKAMAHABHORI TANAPARALIHI SANANKHARATAKELAM SAMBHUDDARATA MEGACARAPATAM TAPASURYAGHATARA A MANAPARABHIHO TINGHURALA MASMINSAGHUTILA TAYA-GHURAGHURA RANGAKHALARa.n.a.lAM NARANARALAM ITHAR-PATALAM SIRNASIRNABHISARALAM SAKELAM SASA R II MAMA RARA5 This is the essential mantra through which the enlightened intention of Samantabhadr liberates The dynamic motion of awareness, enc.u.mbered by phenomenal characteristics, in unborn emptiness.

This is the twenty-nine line supreme essential mantra, Through which liberation will occur in primordial purity, indivisible from Samantabhadr, [when it is worn at the time of death], While [externally] a clear and un.o.bscured sky will appear.

How wonderful!

To symbolise the perfection of all enlightened attributes, The [following] twenty-five mantras which reverse attachment are presented:6 To avert attachment to the sense-faculties, [There is the mantra]: KARMA RAKSA GHIHAMTI.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will confer natural liberation by subduing the beguiling force of the dissonant mental states, While [externally] a bright red rainbow will appear.

To avert attachment to the psycho-physical aggregates, [There is the mantra]: BHIKARANA SO GAD GLING.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will confer natural liberation by subduing the beguiling force of the psycho-physical aggregates, While [externally] a bright yellow rainbow will appear.

To avert attachment to all sense objects, [There is the mantra]: BHUGARILABHADHUTRI.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will confer natural liberation by subduing the beguiling force of 'deva's son', While [externally] a bright white rainbow will appear.

To let go of mental objects, [There is the mantra]: RAMAKALASAMIKHYE.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will confer natural liberation by subduing the beguiling force of the 'lord of death', While [externally] a bright green rainbow will appear.

To sever past sensations, right where they are, [There is the mantra]: MATAMPHAPHERAMITI.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will naturally liberate the ground-of-all [consciousness] in primordial purity, While [externally] a bright blue rainbow will appear.

To recognise the appearance of compounded aggregations, [There is the mantra]: KHATAREKSASA MIG RLUNG.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will spontaneously liberate naturally manifesting appearances in primordial purity, While [externally] a phenomenon like the unfolding of dazzling brocade will appear.

To enter the stronghold of awareness, [There is the mantra]: EKARANABHECAKSA.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will induce the attainment of the 'irreversible level',7 While [externally] arra relics will appear [following the cremation].

To eradicate the continuum of bewilderment, [There is the mantra]: YARIMUTRASAGHULI.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will naturally liberate the three world-systems in primordial purity, While [externally] churira relics will appear [following the cremation].

To successively liberate the six cla.s.ses of living beings, [There is the mantra]: YASIRAM RLUNG PALAYA.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will naturally liberate beings of the six cla.s.ses in primordial purity, While [externally] nyarira relics will appear [following the cremation].

To purge cyclic existence from its depths, [There is the mantra]: MAMAKOLINAM SAMANTA.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will churn the depths of all lower existences, While [externally] pancara relics will appear [following the cremation].

To suppress apparitional reality, [There is the mantra]: GHARILAMBARIMAMTI.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will guide [the deceased] to the genuine reality, While [externally] serrira relics will appear [following the cremation].

To let go of the 'source of the play [of phenomena]', [There is the mantra]: BUGASINHAPHANGALA.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will liberate the phenomena that arise, right where they are, While [externally] manifold shimmering rainbows will appear.

To sever the tethers of attachment, [There is the mantra]: RAMISIPIKHETAPA.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will liberate objects of attachment in the expanse [of reality], While [externally] a clear and bright sky will appear.

To focus on the chains [of light], [There is the mantra]: BHIKHUMALABATAMKE.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will induce the 'visionary appearance of increasing contemplative experience',8 While [externally] patterns will arise from the rainbow colours in the sky.

To view the seal of the deity, [There is the mantra]: SAMANYIVADHERABA.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will induce the 'visionary appearance of reaching the limit of awareness',9 While [externally] the forms of the deities will appear.

To purify mistaken views and meditations, [There is the mantra]: VAJRA SATTVA TIDHOME.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

Awareness will be naturally perfected, While [externally] white rainbow lights will appear.

To simultaneously reach the levels and the paths, [There is the mantra]: GHEPASUGHARNAMYE.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

The levels and paths will be simultaneously perfected, While [externally] the natural sound of reality will resound.

To sever the basis of views which indulge in mental activity, [There is the mantra]: DHARMAPATISAGHULI.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

Digressions will be liberated, right where they occur, While [externally] white rays of light will appear.

To cause the three buddha-bodies to manifest as the path, [There is the mantra]: RASMISAMAKHARGAD TSHE.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

The three buddha-bodies will arise as the path, While [externally] perceptions of light will appear.

To cause the visionary appearances to genuinely arise, [There is the mantra]: RUPASAMIMITALI.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

A simultaneous, naked liberation will occur, While [externally] winds and breezes will arise in the atmosphere.

To terminate attachment to sound, [There is the mantra]: NATIBALAGILISA.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

Liberation will occur in the inexpressible, ineffable state, While [externally] the number of rainbow lights that are seen will transcend recollection.

To master the levels of exalted meditative concentration, [There is the mantra]: GHACCHAPAYAMPA ETAM.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

The singular perfection of the levels and paths will be reached, While [externally] the number of rainbow lights that are seen will induce non-conceptuality.

To extend buddha-activity to its limits, [There is the mantra]: KARMA EKa.n.u.sA.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

Liberation will occur as essence, natural expression, and compa.s.sionate energy,10 While [externally] manifold subtle relics will appear [following the cremation.]

To avert expressed attachment to buddhahood, [There is the mantra]: SANTRIMAMAKARMATA.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

The three buddha-bodies will be liberated in the s.p.a.ce of primordial purity, While [externally] a clear sky and shimmering rainbow will appear.

To discover the abodes of the Conquerors and their children, [There is the mantra]: NALAKHEPAKILISA.

[When it is worn at the time of death]

It will liberate all beings who wear it and are touched by its breath,11 While [externally] rainbows and subtle relics will multiply.

How wonderful!

Since the unified enlightened intention of non-dual Samantabhadra and Samantabhadr12 is naturally present, Each [of these individual mantras] has the capacity to confer liberation.

Thus they are [known as] the twenty-five seminal points, or mantra lines, In which reality naturally resonates and naturally arises.

SAMAYA.

[PART TWO].