Yet, even when set face to face in this way, some persons, because of obscurations from bad karma, and from pride, although the hook of the rays of grace [striketh against them], flee from it. [If one be one of them], then, on the Third Day, the Bhagavan Ratna-Sambhava! and his accompanying deities, along with the light-path from the human world, will come to receive one simultaneously.
Again, calling the deceased by name, the setting-face-to-face is thus:
O nobly-born, listen undistractedly. On the Third Day the primal form of the element earth will shine forth asa yellow light. At that time, from the Southern Realm Endowed with on earth and as liable to anger should he see them disputing over the division of his property, or if he perceives avarice on the part of the Jama conducting the funeral rites. But the prohibition touching anger is essentially yogic, yogis of all religions recognizing that anger prevents spiritual progress; and it
parallels the moral teaching against giving way to anger contained in the ancient Egyptian Precepts of Ptah-hotep.
Glory, the Bhagavan Ratna-Sambhava, yellow in colour, bearing a jewel in his hand, seated upon a horse-throne and embraced by the Divine Mother Sangyay-Chanma,! will shine upon thee.
The two Bodhisattvas, Akasha-Garbha? and Samanta- ~ Bhadra,* attended by the two female Bodhisattvas, Mahlaima and Dhupema,*—in all, six Bodhic forms,—will come to shine from amidst a rainbow halo of light. The aggregate of touch in its primal form, as the yellow light of the Wisdom of Equality, dazzlingly yellow, glorified with orbs having satellite orbs of radiance, so clear and bright that the eye can scarcely look upon it, will strike against thee. Side by side with it,
strike against thy heart, along with the Wisdom light.
Thereupon, through the power of egotism, thou wilt beget
from it. Thou wilt be fondly attracted towards the dull bluish-yellow light from the human [world].
At that time do not fear that bright, dazzling-yellow, trans- parent light, but know it to be Wisdom ; in that state, keeping thy mind resigned, trust in it earnestly and humbly. If thou knowest it to be the radiance of thine own intellect—although thou exertest not thy humility and faith and prayer to it— the Divine Body and Light will merge into thee inseparably, and thou wilt obtain Buddhahood.
If thou dost not recognize the radiance of thine own intel- lect, think, with faith, ‘It is the radiance of the grace of the
Bhagavan Ratna-Sambhava; I will take refuge in it’; and pray. It is the hook of the grace-rays of the Bhagavan Ratna-Sambhava; believe in it.
Be not fond of that dull bluish-yellow light from the human [world]. That is the path of thine accumulated propensities of violent egotism come to receive thee. If thou art attracted by it, thou wilt be born in the human world and have to suffer birth, age, sickness, and death; and thou wilt have no chance of getting out of the quagmire of worldly existence. That is an interruption to obstruct thy path of liberation. Therefore, look not upon it, and abandon egotism, abandon propensities; be not attracted towards it; be not weak. Act so as to trust in that bright dazzling light. Put thine earnest thought, one-pointedly, upon the Bhagavan Ratna-Sambhava; and pray thus:
‘Alas! when wandering in the Saugsdra because of the power of violent egotism,
On the radiant light-path of the Wisdom of Equality,
May the Divine Mother, She-of-the-Buddha-Eye, be [my]
rear-guard ;
Bardo;
Buddhahood.’
By praying thus, with deep humility and faith, thou wilt merge into the heart of the Bhagavan Ratna-Sambhava, the Divine Father-Mother, in halo of rainbow light, and attain Buddhahood in the Sambhoga-K aya, in the Southern Realm Endowed with Glory.