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Buddha, dharma, assembly, basic element,<br>
Awakening, qualities, and finally buddha activity–<br>
The body of the entire treatise<br>
Is summarized in these seven vajra points. +
By virtue of its being inconceivable, free from the dual, nonconceptual,<br>Pure, manifesting, and a remedial factor,<br>It is what is and what makes free from attachment, respectively—<br>The dharma that is characterized by the two realities. +
Similarly, the Sugata beholds his own true nature<br>With his buddha eye even in those who dwell in the Avīci [hell]<br>And thus, as the one who is unobscured, remains until the end of time,<br>And has the character of compassion, frees it from the obscurations. +
Just as someone with the divine eye would perceive an ugly shriveled lotus<br>And a sugata dwelling enclosed in it, thus cutting apart its petals,<br>So the sage beholds the buddha heart obscured by the sheaths of the stains such as desire and hatred,<br>Thus annihilating its obscurations out of his compassion for the world. +
Suppose a clever person were to see<br>Honey surrounded by a swarm of insects<br>And, striving for it, would completely separate it<br>From the swarm of insects with the [proper] means. +
Similarly, the great seer sees that this basic element,<br>Which he perceives with his omniscient eye, is like honey<br>And thus accomplishes the complete removal<br>Of its obscurations that are like bees. +
Just as a person striving for the honey that is covered by billions of insects<br>Would remove them from the honey and use that honey as wished,<br>So the uncontaminated wisdom in beings is like honey, the afflictions are like bees,<br>And the victor who knows how to destroy them resembles that person. +
The kernel in grains united with its husks<br>[Can] not be eaten by people,<br>But those wanting food and so on<br>Extract it from its husks. +
Similarly, the state of a victor in sentient beings,<br>Which is obscured by the stains of the afflictions,<br>Does not perform the activity of a perfect buddha in the three existences<br>For as long as it is not liberated from the afflictions added on [to it]. +
Just as the kernels in grains such as corn, rice, millet, and barley, not extracted from their husks,<br>Still awned, and not prepared well, will not serve as delicious edibles for people,<br>So the lord of dharma in sentient beings, whose body is not released from the husks of the afflictions,<br>Will not grant the pleasant flavor of the dharma to the people pained by the hunger of the afflictions. +
Suppose a traveling person’s [piece of] gold<br>Were to fall into a filthy place full of excrement<br>And yet, being of an indestructible nature, would remain there<br>Just as it is for many hundreds of years. +
A deity with the pure divine eye<br>Would see it there and tell a person:<br>"[There is] gold here, this highest precious substance.<br>You should purify it, and make use of this precious substance." +
Freedom from attachment consists of<br>The two realities of cessation and the path.<br>In due order, these two are to be understood<br>Through three qualities each. +
Similarly, the sage beholds the qualities of sentient beings,<br>Sunken into the afflictions that are like excrement,<br>And thus showers down the rain of the dharma onto beings<br>In order to purify them of the afflictions’ dirt. +
Just as a deity seeing a [piece of] gold fallen into a filthy place full of excrement<br>Would show its supreme beauty to people in order to purify it from stains,<br>So the victor, beholding the jewel of a perfect buddha fallen into the great excrement of the afflictions<br>In sentient beings, teaches the dharma to these beings for the sake of purifying that [buddha]. +
Suppose there were an inexhaustible treasure<br>Beneath the ground within the house of a poor person,<br>But that person would not know about this [treasure],<br>Nor would the treasure say to that [person], "I am here!" +
Similarly, with the stainless treasure of jewels lodged within the mind,<br>Whose nature is to be inconceivable and inexhaustible,<br>Not being realized, beings continuously experience<br>The suffering of being destitute in many ways. +
Just as a treasure of jewels lodged inside the abode of a pauper would not say<br>To this person, "I, the jewel treasure, am here!," nor would this person know about it,<br>So the treasure of the dharma is lodged in the house of the mind, and sentient beings resemble the pauper.<br>It is in order to enable them to attain this [treasure] that the seer takes birth in the world. +
The germs of the seeds in tree fruits such as mango and palm<br>Have the indestructible nature [of growing into a tree].<br>Being sown into the earth and coming into contact with water and so on,<br>They gradually assume the form of a majestic tree. +
Similarly, the splendid dharmadhātu in sentient beings, covered<br>By the sheath of the peel around the fruit of ignorance and so on,<br>In dependence on such and such virtues<br>Gradually assumes the state of the king of sages. +
