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/rdo rje'i gnod sbyin de bśad do //
(97) "Vajrayakşa": discrimination (so sor rtog[s] pa). (98)/sku gsun thugs kyi rdo rje rnams/
/bcin ba ru ni yan dag gyur/ / de ñid de ñid ye ses te/ /rdo rje khu tshur źes bśad do // (98) "Vajrasandhi": accomplishment (sgrub (99) / dam tshig phyag rgya thams cad ni/ /rdo rje bsdams las yan dag byun / /rdo rje khu tshur gñis gyur pa/ /las kyi phyag rgya źes bśad do // (99) "samaya-mudra-s": means "symbolic "great seal" (mahamudra).
(100) / na rgyal med cin snan ba med/ /mtshan ma med cin źen pa med/ /bdag med mñam ñid ye śes ni / /rdo rje sems dpa' źes byar bśad // (100) "without pride": because not viewing any person (pudgala). "non-appearance": because there is abatement (nub pa) of diversified appearance of apprehending and apprehended. "characterless": because there is no attention to speaking and the subject matter. "non-clinging": because there is no diversified appearance of particular characteristics. "non-self": this has the meaning of vajra, explained as voidness (śūnyatā), the general characteristic of natures (dharma). "sameness wisdom": which views this general characteristic. [Santi-pā associates this verse with the preceding one on the "diamond fists". It appears that the name "Vajrasattva" is here a general coverage of the 16 "diamond beings" going in sets of four with the four Buddhas as in the foregoing.]
(Diamond Harmer).
(98) Properly tying the diamonds of Body, Speech, and Mind, knowing the reality of those very (diamonds), is the explanation of Vajrasandhi (Diamond Tie). par byed pa).
(99) All samaya-mudra-s arise from the diamond-tie and are the two diamond fists the explanation of "seal of action" (karmamudrā).
seals". "diamond fists": symbolize the
(100) The sameness wisdom, without pride, non-appearance, characterless, non-clinging, and selfless-is the explanation of Vajrasattva (Diamond Existence).
X. Reality of the deities (cont.): the adamantine goddesses. (101) / gsan ba'i mñam par sbyor ba 'dir/
/ye ses pha rol phyin dge ba/
/rnam pa bcu gñis yan dag byun/
/rdo rje pha rol phyin pa'i 'od //
(101) "equal praxis": reality (de kno na hid) or the mandala. "virtue": purity (dag
pa). "light": blazing color.
(102) /byan chub sems ni rab sgom pas/
(101) The secret equal praxis here has the virtue of knowledge-perfection. The right arising of twelve kinds (of goddess) has the light of diamond-perfection.
(102) Going across to Buddhahood by supe
