ABHISAMAYALAMKARA

ANALYSIS OF
3. The third Creative Effort, connected with the
highest altruistic tendencies, resembling the ascending
moon, inasmuch as, owing to these tendencies, all the
'elements of the bright quarter*' (i.e. all the virtuous elements,
as for instance the 37 characteristic features of
Enlightenment), become more and more developed.
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[Gser. I. 125a. 3-4] gsum-pa bsarn-pa ihag-pas lhag~
pahi-bsam-pa danldan-pa-ni zla-ba tshes-pa Ha-bu-ste.
phyogs-mthun so-bdun sogs-kyi dge-bahi chos mihah-daggof\~nas~goh-du
hphel-bar-hgyur-ba-nid-fyyis.
These 3 forms are included in the Stage of Preliminary
Activity (of the Bodhisattva) or that of Accumulating
Merit,^ relating respectively to i;s lowest, its intermediate
and its highest degrees.
[Gser. I. 130b, 6.] dah-po hdun-ldan -la-sogs-pa
gsum-ni las-dah-po-pahi sa tshcgs-lam-gyis bsdus-te de*
yah tshogS"k.yi"lam chufi-nu dan hbrin dan chen-po-nidkyis
rim-pa bzin-no.
4! The fourth Creative Effort, associated with
training, resembling fire, because the training for the
attainment of the 3 kinds of Omniscience is like fire that
destroys all the impediments (i.e. the Obscurations) which
may be compared with fuel. The force of this lire
becomes greater and greater, the more it consumes its
lueV
[Gser. I. 125a.6b.—1.] b£i~pa sl%ye~med gswm
mkhyenpahi sbyor-ba dan-ldan-pa nu me4ta-bu~ste.
mkhyen-gsum-gyi yul skjye-med gsum ss$~pa~la gegsbyed-pahi
sgrib-pahi bud-sin sreg-pa-nid"k.yis. 2
This (fourth) Creative Effort forms a constituent part
of the Path of Training for the entrance upon the first
: \
1 sambhara~marga = tsh6gslam, ' Bambhara~bhtimi = tshags~pahi«
m, adikarTriik.a-bhiimi = las-dan-po-pahi sa, sraddha-bhumi^dad-pahi
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