If thou art frightened by the pure radiances of Wisdom and attracted by the impure lights of the Six Lokas, then thou wilt assume a body in any of the Six Lokas and suffer sangsāric miseries; and thou wilt never be emancipated from the Ocean of Sangsāra, wherein thou wilt be whirled round and round and made to taste of the sufferings thereof.
O nobly-born, if thou art one who hath not obtained the select words of the guru, thou wilt have fear of the pure radiances of Wisdom and of the deities thereof. Being thus frightened, thou wilt be attracted towards the impure sangsāric objects. Act not so. Humbly trust in the dazzling pure radiances of Wisdom. Frame thy mind to faith, and think, 'The compassionate radiances of Wisdom of the Five Orders of Buddhas[1] have come to take hold of me out of compassion; I take refuge in them.'
Not yielding to attraction towards the illusory lights of the Six Lokas, but devoting thy whole mind one-pointedly towards the Divine Fathers and Mothers, the Buddhas of the Five Orders, pray thus:
'Alas! when wandering in the Sangsāra through the power of the five virulent poisons,[2]
On the bright radiance-path of the Four Wisdoms united,
May [I] be led by the Five Victorious Conquerors,
May the Five Orders of Divine Mothers be [my] rear-guard;
May [I] be rescued from the impure light-paths of the Six Lokas;
And, being saved from the ambuscades of the dread Bardo,
May [I] be placed within the five pure Divine Realms.'
By thus praying, one recognizeth one's own inner light;[3]
- ↑ Text: Bde-var-gshegs-pa (pron. De-war-sheg-pa): Skt. Sugata: literally meaning 'Those who have passed into Happiness (or attained Nirvāṇa)'-i.e. Buddhas.
- ↑ The five virulent poisons, which, like drugs, enslave and bind mankind to the sufferings of existence within the confines of the Six Lokas, are: lust, hatred, stupidity, pride or egoism, and jealousy.
- ↑ Text: rang ('self') + sNang ('light'): 'self-light' or 'inner-light', i. e. thoughts or ideas appearing in the radiance of the consciousness-principle. The Bardo state is the after-death dream state following the waking or living-on-earth state, as explained in our Introduction (pp. 28 ff.); and the whole
