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These eight are called the "eight excellences of mastery," and not the "eight masteries. " As to their meaning being explained by the previous, it seems that you cannot find an explanation of the eight excellences of mastery, so you should apply the explanation of the eight excellences of mastery by Avalokitavrata. Regarding that, such mastery involves the subtle causing the creation and destruction of the world of beings, the light causing of the creation and destruction of the world of things, and the ownership of the creation and destruction of both of them; so here the yogi/ni has the ability to emanate and dissolve those things.
The latter is shown by "true attainment. " Going wherever the mind thinks [to go] is indicated by "true pervasiveness. " Being worshipped by all elemental spirits is shown by one's appearing extremely illuminating and overwhelming all others by light and majesty. "Mastery" is having the power to [both] punish and support beings. As an excellence, developing the power of fulfillment is to possess "all fulfillment. " This is shown by
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the ability to get whatever you want to get, relying on abiding in fulfilled delight.
Attaining the supreme in less than six months refers to the attaining of the Ieamer's union. When you perform the conducts on the four occa- sions previously explained, since you practice until you attain your frui- tion, you do not calculate whether or not there is the elaboration of time.
Although you have practiced conduct thus by the two stages, if you do not swiftly achieve the fruition of each particular occasion, as for the way of being urged along I-? 09nJ each of the two stages, you should under- stand it from the Root Tantra Tenth Chapter Commentary and Naropa's Further Tantra Commentary.
[VI. B. 4. - How the fruition will be attained at meditation's end]
Fourth, as for the way of realizing the fruition at the end of medi-
tating the path, the Illumination ofthe Lamp declares:
Further the need is to be explained,
The ritual procedures of peace and so on, Likewise the eight accomplishments, And buddhahood as the supreme.
Thus, buddhahood is best, the eight great accomplishments is medium, and the deeds of peace, growth, power, and terror is least.
As for the eight accomplishments, the Wisdom Vajra Compendium directly mentions six and omits two:
Mantra, medicine, fire-sacrifice, powder, eye-salve, swift- foot, and so on, the eight great accomplishments.
The Four Goddess Dialogue explains the achievement of the eight substances and the limbs:
Pills, and eye-salve medicines,
The underground, the sword accomplishment, Flying in the sky, invisibility,
Deathlessness, and healing sicknesses.
The Vajra Pavilion says:
Eye-salve, speed-travel,
Sword, underground accomplishments,
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Invisibility, and fasting.
The latter two fruitions [eight accomplishments and four deeds], are collected in the common accomplishments, giving two kinds, supreme and common, as the Further Tantra says:
The accomplishments of invisibility, and so on, Are explained as the ordinary [ones] ;
Buddha proclaimed the attainment of buddhahood, To be the supreme accomplishment.
At the end of learning the creation stage and its conduct, [309bJ as for the way of achieving the common accomplishments, you can understand it from reading the Tantra Commentary.
At the end of learning the perfection stage and its conduct, as for the way of achieving the nonlearner's communion, it is as previously explained. When you have realized the pre-dawn clear light transparence through the two enlightenments outer and inner, at the time of the mani- festation of the ultimate truth body, the learner's communion magic body becomes the nonlearner's communion magic body, and you abide without deviating from those two bodies as long as the samsaric life cycle lasts [for other beings].
As for the objective clear light transparence endowed with two such purities, it is called the "uncreated truth body," the "subjective clear light intuition truth body," and the "great bliss body. "
Its support embodiment matter body is the beatific body made of wind-energy-mind only, those two bodies being [merely] conceptually different but one in actuality, frequently referred to as the "intuition body nondual with the matter body," so you should understand that the claim that the Noble father and sons' positions are that the matter body is not included in the buddha-stage but only in the continuum of the disciples, that the matter body is [coarsely] material and actually different from consciousness, and that there is no intuitive wisdom in the context of fruition, and so forth, is not a valid claim.
Such a communion body creates many emanations such as the supreme emanation body, and having taken the emanation body com- munion body as one, you can understand well the arrangement of the two [beatific and truth] bodies in the communion body. In other Mantra
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treatises there certainly are explanations of emanation body matter body as embodiment of intuitive wisdom, mind as 13lllul truth body. and speech as beatific body, but the position of the father and sons is as above.
As previously explained. at the end of other paths you add the distinctive mantric path and attain buddhahood in Akani? hta heaven, and that is accepted as unexcelled buddhahood. However, that does not con- tradict the explanation of attaining buddhahood in an embodiment that desires buddhahood in one lifetime from entering the unexcelled path from the beginning: because positing buddhahood through the unexcelled system and attaining buddhahood having entered the unexcelled path from the beginning do not have the same meaning. You can understand from what was explained above the subtle differences of the systems of achieving the truth and matter bodies of these two kinds of buddhahoods.
As for attaining buddhahood in the embodiment of a magic body person who has attained the magic body in a human embodiment, it is easy to understand how that is buddhahood in a human embodiment. When a yogi/ni in a human embodiment, having given up his/her human lifespan, achieves the magic body in place of becoming a between being, that embodiment for attaining buddhahood in that embodiment, though it is not included in the six migrations of beings, is not contradicted; just as, for example, the non-returner [saint] attains nirvana in the between and attains arhatship in that [between] embodiment.
Having meditated such a path, one abides in the buddha beatific body with its seven components, but there is no certainty about the ema- nation body. Therefore, as for the sky union component of the beatific body, it is declared that it creates the bestowal of the great bliss of play through the entrancement of union with many science companions such as the orgasmic [science consorts], [Jlllbl and in conformity with that frui-
tion, in the time of the path, one performs totally expansive great bliss by the way of playing with the desire objects of youth and beauty.
On the occasion of the fruition, you must settle [your insight] through objections and answers, and though there seem to be many more, here I have explained those points of the greatest difficulty. And I have not written about [all] the difficult points of formulations common to both Universal Vehicles, both because you can understand them from others and I fear the book will become too long.
Thus, as prophesied to teach the ultimate definitive meaning of the Sn tras, the ultimate of all Sil tras, the sole jewel of the three worlds, the
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Glorious Esoteric Community, the great king of Tantras famous as the sun and moon, the Savior Nagarjuna, father and sons, having realized the meaning, elucidated it as they had seen it themselves, and fully and clearly explained all the meanings of the keys of the glorious Five Stages. If you do not understand well the lower paths and theories from which this is distinctive, then you will not understand the subtle and extraordinary distinctive specialties of the higher paths and theories. And especially, if you do not develop the precise intellectual discernment derived from cultivating the ultimate, definitive meaning, profound voidness and the definitive meaning Sutras, and the extremely subtle reasoning processes of the Savior Nagarjuna, you will not discover the key of the general path that leads to liberation and omniscience. And in particular, you will not identify well the essence of the subjects of the two nondual [Father and Mother] Tantras, the orgasmic intuitive wisdom from practicing the join- ing of bliss [31 lal and void; though you will admire it, you will see it as
merely a matter of faith.
Therefore, I studied well the treatises of our own and others' schools,
our Individual and Universal Vehicles, [the latter with] both its Transcen- dence and Mantra Vehicles, and the four classes of Vajra Vehicle Tantras. Further, through intensive practice I conducted far-reaching investiga- tions concerning the way of leading the disciple through the processes of the completion of the body of each particular path, adorned by the specific appropriate personal instruction, concerning the determining of voidness and, having determined it, meditating it, and concerning the way of explaining the specific systems of the Community as above explained. [Then, taking] the full measure of the Tibetan translations of the Indian treatises of the Noble literature, and all the personal instruc- tions [connected with these], I comparatively connected well the Root Tantra and the Explanatory Tantras. [Then,] I prayed far-reachingly and encountered distinctively excellent signs for composing a treatise. [Thus,] with the pure motivation to restore to excellence the extremely degener- ated Community system of the Noble literature and to see it endure for a long time without degenerating [again], I wrote [this treatise].
The supreme lamp dispelling beings' mental darkness, The sole mine of all jewels of good eloquence, Peerless Teacher, crown of all philosophers,
The pervasive Lord, Glorious Vajradhara King,
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Of Unexcelled Yoga Tantras.
Thus, like an emperor among the kings of earth, Surrounded by retinues of fabulous 131 1bl Tantras, Ruling the continent ofjewel Sotras,
Fulfilling the hopes of the thousand bodhisattvas. Serving as the summit of all the Sotras-
Such is the Glorious Community, King ofTantras.
Having consummated all stages by its path, The supreme adept Nagarjunapada
Well elucidated its hidden intention,
And [that intentions] was developed
By Aryadeva, Nagabodhi,
Shakyamitra, and Chandrakirti-
Who composed this feast of new true eloquence, The supreme Illumination ofthe Lamp, illuminating All the key points of the five stages,
Dispelling all the darkness of nonunderstanding and
misunderstanding,
About the Five Stages, itself the essence of true eloquence.
The So. tras in general and especially the Noble tradition, Having tremendously declined for a very long time,
To discern the hard to fathom meaning of the Tantra, The contemplation playing in bliss, is indeed difficult.
Still, by this performer of good evolutionary action, Exceedingly blest with a good share of discerning genius, Schooled in critical discernment by the vast sphere
Of the intelligence of [my] many expert [teachers],
Rich with treasures of insight that restored me
And energized [my mind] beyond all doubt-
For [you, you] superior ones, here at this end of time, This unprecedented lucid teaching cannot not be given.
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Having worked hard on this way, and researched afar, I have composed, analyzing well and in detail;
Yet my mind inadequate, the Tantra's meaning hard to
fathom,
Therefore whatever errors I have committed,
As loving parents still hold as wondrous
Even the errors of speech of their little child,
So may the divine host of Ak? hobhyavajra
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For someone who does not take the treatises as personal instructions
-Unskilled in our and others' theories, content with prejudice,
Not struggling with the subtleties of the path of reason - To take up the key points of a path so long lost [to the
world],
Is like for a child who climbs up on a stone stand
To struggle wildly to catch the sun-
Such a one can be said only to be well-meaning. Thus, it is right [only] for the discerning to make the
effort.
For even the slightest sliver of your deeds
To enter the heart is so rare and precious,
Yet you made the well hidden meaning brilliantly clear- May Your Holiness, Wisdom Treasure, please protect me!
By whatever good evolutionary force I gain, By making effort on this treatise,
Seeing which and thinking over its meaning Captivates the mind of the wise.
As a lover' s heart is [enchanted]
By the form of a beautiful woman,
May all beings understand precisely
The key points of the Tantras, so hard to discern, And then accomplish their [profound] meaning, And so proceed to the state of Vajradhara!
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As long as the axial mountain Meru stands in the stamen Of the eight-petalled lotus of earth's continents,
So long may this true eloquence, for fortunate beings, Long make clear the ultimate [meaning] of the path !
And may I from now for all my lives,
Never be apart from this ultimate of paths,
And may I always please the holy spiritual friend, The peerless root of the mass of excellence !
[COLOPHON]
Thus, as for this Brilliant Illumination ofthe Lamp oj! 312bl All Key Meanings of the Profound Five Stages, the Essence of the King of Tantras, The Glorious Esoteric Community-due to being repeatedly petitioned to write down a clear and detailed version of the keys of the path of the Five Stages, taking with the crown of my head the dust from the feet of the holy mentors such as His Holiness reverend Khyungpo Lhaspa and His Holiness reverend [Rendawa] Kumaramati, the Glorious Esoteric Community yogi and learned mendicant, the Easterner Tsong Khapa Losang Drakpay Pal, in the Ganden Triumph Monastery on Great Nomad Mountain, [composed this text], and the scribe was Rinchen Pal. an Esoteric Community practitioner upholding the fourfold asceticism.
Mangalam
APPENDIX, GLOSSARIES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, INDEXES
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