Just as the kernels of rice and so on<br>Are covered by outer husks,<br>So the seeing of the essential actuality<br>Is obscured by the eggshell of ignorance. +
Just as excrement is disagreeable,<br>So is desire to those free from desire.<br>Being the causes for indulging in desire,<br>The outbursts [of the afflictions] are like excrement. +
Just as people would not obtain a treasure<br>Hidden in the earth due to not knowing [about it],<br>So those obscured by the ground of the latent tendencies<br>Of ignorance [do not obtain] the self-arisen. +
Just as the husks of a seed are split apart<br>By the gradual growth of the germ and so on,<br>So the factors to be relinquished through seeing<br>Are removed by seeing true reality. +
By virtue of the purity of the inner<br>Wisdom vision of suchness and variety,<br>The assembly of the irreversible intelligent ones<br>Is [endowed] with unsurpassable qualities. +
The factors to be relinquished through the wisdom of familiarization,<br>Whose core—[views about] a real personality—has been relinquished<br>As a necessary consequence of the noble path [of seeing],<br>Are illustrated by a filthy garment. +
The stains pertaining to the seven bhūmis<br>Resemble the stains of the enclosure of a womb.<br>Similar to an embryo’s being delivered from its enclosure,<br>Nonconceptual wisdom possesses maturation. +
The stains associated with the three [pure] bhūmis<br>Should be known to be like a clay mold.<br>They are to be overcome by the wisdom<br>Of the vajra-like samādhi of great beings. +
Thus, the nine stains such as desire<br>Resemble a lotus and so on.<br>Due to consisting of three natures,<br>The basic element is similar to a buddha and so on. +