The Mantra of Chenrazee

Fanaa

“OM MA-NI PAD-ME HUM”

Described on page xxiv

Lords of Death! are thine own hallucinations. Thy desire- body is a body of propensities, and void. Voidness cannot injure voidness ; the qualityless cannot injure the qualityless.

Apart from one’s own hallucinations, in reality there are ‘no such things existing outside oneself as Lord of Death, or god, or demon, or the Bull-headed Spirit of Death.2— Act so as to recognize this.

At this time, act so as to recognize that thou art in the Bardo. Meditate upon the Samadhi of the Great Symbol. If thou dost not know how to meditate, then merely analyse with care the real nature of that which is frightening thee. In reality it is not formed into anything, but is a Voidness which is the Dharma-K aya.*

That Voidness is not of the nature of the voidness of nothingness, but a Voidness at the true nature of which thou feelest awed, and before which thine intellect shineth

Sambhoga-K aya.

In that state wherein thou art existing, there is being experienced by thee, in an unbearable intensity, Voidness and Brightness inseparable,—the Voidness bright by nature and the Brightness by nature void, and the Brightness in- separable from the Voidness,—a state of the primordial

injury. ‘As through a cloud, a sword can be plunged through the Bardo-body without harming it ’—the /amas explain; or it is like the forms seen in material- izing seances of necromancers and spirit-mediums,

power of this, shining unobstructedly, will radiate every- where; it is the Mirmana-K aya.

O nobly-born, listen unto me undistractedly. By merely recognizing the Four K@yas, thou art certain to obtain perfect Emancipation in any of Them. Be not distracted. The line of demarcation between Buddhas and sentient beings lieth herein.! This moment is one of great importance; if thou shouldst be distracted now, it will require innumerable aeons of time for thee to come out? of the Quagmire of Misery.

A saying, the truth of which is applicable, is:

‘In a moment of time, a marked differentiation is created ; In a moment of time, Perfect Enlightenment is obtained.’

Till the moment which hath just passed, all this Bardo hath been dawning upon thee and yet thou hast not re- cognized, because of being distracted. On this account, thou hast experienced all the fear and terror. Shouldst thou be- come distracted now, the chords of divine compassion of the Compassionate Eyes will break,* and thou wilt go into the

fore, be careful. Even though thou hast not recognized ere this—despite thus being set face to face—thou wilt recognize and obtain liberation here.

[Instructions to the Officiant]: If it be an illiterate boor who knoweth not how to meditate, then say this:

O nobly-born, if thou knowest not how thus to meditate, act so as to remember the Compassionate One, and the Sangha, the Dharma, and the Buddha, and pray. Think of all these fears and terrifying apparitions as being thine own tutelary deity, or as the Compassionate One.* Bring to thy recollec- tion the mystic name that hath been given thee at the time

* The idea meant to be conveyed is that trials and tribulations, although

karmic, act as divine tests, and so, being for the good of the deceased, ought even to be visualized as such, i.e, as the tutelary deity, or as Chenrazee.

of thy sacred initiation when thou wert a human being, and the name of thy guru, and tell them to the Righteous King

pices, thou wilt not be hurt. Avoid awe and terror.