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CHAPTER THIRTEEN his eyes filled with tears, bowed to the Teacher of the World, made the añjali at his head, and said respectfully :
“At your conception, birth, initiation, omniscience, the constellation Hastottara (was in ascendancy), Lord. Now the planet Bhasmaka is in ascendancy. It, an unfavorable planet, crossing the birth-constellation of you, dying, will oppress your successors for two thousand years. Guard against the moment of its entry, Lord, so that the planet will become without effect by your power. Bad dreams, bad omens, bad planets of all others who keep you in their hearts will become favorable; how much more, where you are in person, Master. Please remain a moment; let the subsidence of this evil planet take place.”
The Master replied: “No one is able to mend life, Sakra. Though you know this, why do you say such a thing, confused by affection for the congregation? Oppression of the congregation will come from advancing duḥşamā and the rising of Bhasmaka was in conformity with destiny."
After enlightening Vajrin in this way, the Teacher of the World, who had passed thirty years - less six and one half months in omniscience, seated in the paryanka-posture, continuing the coarse activity of the body, blocked the coarse activity of mind and speech. Continuing the fine-activity of the body the Supreme Lord, expert in activity, blocked the coarse activity of the body. The Lord blocked the fine activities of speech and mind and made the third pure meditation which has fine action. The Teacher of the World blocked fine activity of the body and made the fourth pure meditation in which action is destroyed. By means of the fourth meditation which lasts long enough for the utterance of five short vowels, unfailing for the fourth object of existence (mokşa), the Lord, having an upward path from the absence of bondage like the seed of a castor-bean plant, went to emancipation alone by a path naturally straight. Then there was a moment of comfort even for the hell-inhabitants, who are never the recipients of even an atom of comfort.
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