Sarva Rahasya Tantra

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of Amitabha. "illuminator-placed": goddess next to Vairocana. "diamond fury of harming" (like) Vajrayaksa, Bhairava, and the other Krodha (Fury) deities. [Santi-pä does not name the four goddesses, According to Chap. XV, they would be "eye manner" Locana; "adamantine one of the lotus"= Pāṇḍarā; "illuminator-placed" Tārā; and "diamond fury" Mamaki. (41) i ba dgoñs ka bya ba yin/
/ de bźin rgyas pa sǹa dro la/ /gdug pa'i las rnams ñi ma'i gun/ /dban gi las ni mtshan phyed bya // (42) /źi la dkar po sbyar bar bya/
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(41) The appeasing is done at dusk; the properity one at dawn; the controlling at noon; the harming at midnight.
/ser por snan ba rgyas pa la/ /dban gi las la dmar po ste / /gdug pa nag po rad tu sbyar //
(42) "the white......": the colors are the colors of the flowers, jewels, cloth, etc.
(43) tin 'dsin ye ses las byun ba/ /las kyi sgrub pa dam pa yin / /bcom Idan dag pa bsgom bya ste/ /sans rgyas kun las mi g'yo gyur //
(42) The white corresponds to appeasing; yellow to prosperity; the red to controlling; black to harming.
V. Five manifest enlightenments.
bha-ga'i dbus su gsan ba'i bdag/ /rdo rje'i dbyins ni de bźin gśegs/ /lna yi bdag gyur bdag ñid ni / /bsgoms na g'yo ba med par gyur //
(43) Arising from the samadhi wisdom is the sublime fulfillment of the (magical) rite. Who will contemplate the pure Bcom Idan will not move off from any of the Buddhas.
(43) "samadhi wisdom": the five manifest enlightenments (abhisambodhi). "Buddhas": one for each of the five manifest enlightenments (see v. 17, above). "bcom Idan". [the bhaga of bhagavat]: the contemplation of this concerns the first two abhisambodhis, for which the candidates mutter the formulas, cittaprativedham karomi ("I perform mind penetration") and bodhicittam utpädayāmi ("I generate the mind of enlightenment"). "will not move off" will not change, because there is firmness of the mind of enlightenment.
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(44) When one contemplates the secret master in the middle of the bhaga-the Tathāgata of the Vajradhätu-whose self is the self of the five (Buddhas), one does not move off (is transfixed).
(44) "in the middle of the bhaga": the third abhisambodhi, for which the candidates mutter, Om tiştha vajra ("Om. Stand up, O vajra"); and the fourth one, for which they mutter, Om vajratmako 'ham ("Om. I consist of vajra"). "is the self" the