ABHISAMAYALAMKARA

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ANALYSIS OF
3 Pr e-c onceived realistic views
regarding the (5) groups of elements
etc.
These are not to be removed, if one has got no
practice in (the contemplation of) the separate unreality
of the elements. 1
4 Company of bad friends and ..influence
o f sue h. This is possible if one does not
take recourse to the help of a spiritual teacher. 2
[Abhis. aloka, MS. 194a. 13b. 1.] ^^:4srf%#q^^ =wgft
[Tg. MDO. VI. 199a. 3-4,] rnam-pa bzi-po de-dag
ces-bya-ba-ni bdud-kyis byin-gyis-brlabs-pa dan. zab~
pahi chos~1a ma-mos-pa dan. phun-po-la-sogs-pa-la
mnon-par-zen-pa dan, sdig-pahi grogs-pos yohs-su-zin-pa-
$te. spon-bahi rgyu bits zes-bya\-bahi thahtshig-go.
THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF PURIFICATION.
Kir. II. 28.
After the exposition of the factors conducive to the
realization of absolute purity and their reverse, which
represent respectively the objects of appreciation and
rejection, we come to the main topic, viz, the Path of
Concentrated Contemplation as the attainment of perfect
purity.—-Here, in order to demonstrate this purity in
general we speak of its profound character,
I Abhis. aloka, MS. 194b. 5-8.J
[Tg. MDO. VI. 199a. 6-7.] de-ltar ttogs-pa dan mattogs-pahi
rgyu thob-pa dan yons-su-spah-b'ahi yul gsuhs-
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ncrs. skab$~$u-bab'pa~sin~tu mam-par-dag-paiht mtshannid-kyi
sgom-pahi lam-gyi mam-par-dag-pa sphyir bstanpahi
don-du zab-pa-nid ston-par-byed-pa.
The purification of the elements of existence, the
material and the rest is (brought about through the intuition
of) their illusory character,—this being due to the
retnoval of every imputation of Ego and Mind. It is at
the same time the purification of the Climax of Wisdom
as manifesting itself in the form of the Results
of Saintliness, that of Entering the Stream and
the rest, in the sense of a separation from all the points
to be shunned. 1 In just the same way, that which
represents the purification of the Results is at the same
time the purification of Matter and the other elements.
The two kinds of purification are essentially identical;
they cannot be divided or separated from each other.
Therefore the purity of the Result implies the purity of
Matter etc. and vice versa.
[Abhis. aloka, MS. 195a. 12-16.] 3TI
[Tg. MDO. VI. 200a. 1-4.] bdag dan bdag-gi-la~
sogs-pa mnon-par-zen-pa da\n-btal-bas gzugs-la-sogs-pa
8gyu~ma-li4X-*bur-gyur~pahi rnam-pctr-dctg~pct >gan yin-pade-nid
rni-mthun-pahi phyogs thams-cad dan-braH-ba-nidktjis-na
rgyun-du-zugs-pa-larsogs-pahi hbras-bu-dmg sesrab-fyyi
pha-rol-tu-phyin-pahi mam-par-dag-pa yin-la. debzin-du
hbras-bu mam-par-dag-pa gah yin-pa de-ni gzugs
la-sogs-pa mam-par-dag-pa yin-pas gfiis-su m'ed-de gfiis*
su-byar-med-pa yin-pahi-phyir tha-mi-dag-de. ma-chadpaho.
de-bas-na hbras-bu rnam-pav-dag-pas gzugs-lasogs-pa
rnam-par-dag-pa dan. de-bzin-du gzugs*-la-sog$~
'. I
1 Gser. II.. 7lb. 4.—chosla bdag-med-pahi don-la ma-goms-pas
phun-po sogs-la dnospor-hdzin-pa ate zen-paho.—Pane, II. 249a, 8.—
$rtson~hgrus med cin phun-po Ina-la mnon-par-zen-pas
2 Gser, II. 71b. 5.—~de-hahi bses-gfien-la hdris-par-ma-hyas pas
mi-dge-bahi grogs-po dan hgrogs-sin dehi dban-du son-ba ste.—
P^nc. II. 249a. 7-8—sfyyes-bu glen-pa de-dag-ni sdig-pahi grogs~pohi
lQg~t%$on-ba yin-te. (^papa-mitra-hasta-gatah). Cf. above, Chapter I
under sampatigtaha.
1 As*. 184. 11.
1 Because tbese two kinds of purity representing the separation
from one and the same category of (defiling elements) to be
removed, are, as regards their particular and general essence,
identical and indivisible. Rnam-bsad. 176b. 3-4.—dag-bya-gcig-gis
dben-pahi dag-pa de gnis ran-gi-mtshan-nid no-bo tha-dag-pahi $go~
nas tha-dad ma-yin-zin rigs-tha-dad-pahi sgo-nas bc&d-du-med-pas-so.
Abhit. aloka, MS, 195a. 9.—