It is impossible that one should not be liberated thereby. Yet, though thus set face to face, sentient beings, unable through long association with propensities to abandon propen- sities, and, through bad karma and jealousy, awe and terror being produced by the sounds and radiances—the hook-rays of grace failing to catch hold of them—wander down also to the Fifth Day. [If one be such a sentient being], thereupon the Bhagavan Amogha-Siddhi with his attendant deities and the light and rays of his grace, will come to receive one, A light proceeding from the Asura-loka, produced by the evil passion of jealousy, will also come to receive one.
The setting-face-to-face at that time is, calling the deceased by name, thus :
O nobly-born, listen undistractedly. On the Fifth Day, the green light of the primal form of the element air will shine upon thee. At that time, from the Green Northern Realm of Successful Performance of Best Actions, the Bhagavan Buddha Amogha-Siddhi, green in colour, bearing a crossed-dovje in
hand,! seated upon a sky-traversing Harpy-throne,? embraced by the Divine Mother, the Faithful Délma,* will shine upon thee, with his attendants,—the two Bodhisattvas Chag-na- Dorje4 and Dibpanamsel,® attended by two female Bodhi- sattvas, Gandhema® and Nidhema.?’ These six Bodhic forms, from amidst a halo of rainbow light, will come to shine.
The primal form of the aggregate of volition, shining as the green light of the All-Performing Wisdom, dazzlingly green, transparent and radiant, glorious and terrifying, beautified with orbs surrounded by satellite orbs of radiance, issuing from the heart of the Divine Father-Mother Amogha-Siddhi, green in colour, will strike against thy heart [so wondrously
8 Text: Sgrol-ma (pron. Dél-ma): Délma (Skt. Tara) = ‘Saviouress’. She is the divine consort of Avalokiteshvara. There are now two recognized forms of this goddess: the Green Délma, as worshipped in Tibet, and the White Dolma, as worshipped chiefly in China and Mongolia. The royal Nepalese princess who became the wife of the first Buddhist king of Tibet is believed to have been an incarnation of the Green Délma, and his wife from the Imperial House of China an incarnation of the White Délma. (See p. 74.) The late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup told me that, because Tibetans saw the likeness of Queen Victoria on English coins and recognized it as being that of Délma, there developed throughout Tibet during the Victorian Era a belief that Délma had come back to birth again to rule the world in the person of the Great Queen of England ; and that, owing to this belief, the British representatives of the Queen then met with an unusually friendly reception in their negotiations with Lhassa, although probably unaware of the origin of the friendship.
* Text: Phyag-na-rdovje (pron. Chag-na-doryje): ‘Bearing the Dove in hand’: Skt. Vajra-pani.
® Skt.-Tib, hybrid of text. Corresponding Tib., Dri-chha-ma (Skt. Gandha), ‘She Spraying Perfume’, one of the eight mother goddesses (Matris) of the Hindu pantheon. She is depicted holding a shell-vase of perfume (dr).
not. That is the natural power of the wisdom of thine own intellect. Abide in the state of great resignation of im- partiality.
Along with it [i.e. the green light of the All-Performing _ Wisdom], a light of dull green colour from the Asura-loka, produced from the cause of the feeling of jealousy, coming side by side with the Wisdom Rays, will shine upon thee. Medi- tate upon it with impartiality,—with neither repulsion nor attraction. Be not fond of it: if thou art of low mental capacity, be not fond of it.
Thereupon, through the influence of intense jealousy,' thou wilt be terrified at the dazzling radiance of the green
a fondness for that dull green light of the Asura-loka. At that time fear not the glorious and transparent, radiant and dazzling green light, but know it to be Wisdom ; and in that state allow thine intellect to rest in resignation. Or else [think], ‘It is the hook-rays of the light of grace of the Bhagavan Amogha-Siddhi, which is the All-Performing
Even though thou shouldst flee from it, it will follow thee inseparably [from thyself]. Fear it not. Be not fond of that dull green light of the Asura-loka. That is the karmic path of acquired intense jealousy, which hath come to receive thee. If thou art attracted by it, thou wilt fall into the Asura-loka and have to engage in unbearable miseries of quarrelling and
liberation. Be not attracted by it. Abandon thy propensities. Be not weak. Trust in the dazzling green radiance, and putting thy whole thought one-pointedly upon the Divine Father-Mother, the Bhagavan Amogha-Siddhi, pray thus:
‘Alas! when wandering in the Sangsdra because of the
power of intense jealousy,
On the radiant light-path of the All-Performing Wisdom
guard ;
the Bardo;
Buddhahood.’
By praying thus with intense faith and humility, thou wilt merge into the heart of the Divine Father-Mother, the Bhagavan Amogha-Siddhi, in halo of rainbow light, and attain Buddhahood in the Sambhoga-K aya, in the Northern Realm of Heaped-up Good Deeds.!