The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Hey, immortal one, you who was called _____! Having been without your physcial body for a time, you are now proceeding. You have awakened in the confusion of anxiety with the worry asking yourself, "What is happening to me?" Recognize that you are in the spiritual between! Now, your life cycle is transcending and all things manifest as lights and deities. All space manifests full of blue light. Now, from the central Buddha-land, All-pervading Drop, the Lord Vairochana appears before you, white bodied, sitting on a lion throne, holding in his hand an eight-spoked wheel, united with his consort Akasha Dhatvishvari. The natural purity of the consciousness mosaic, the blue light of the Reality Perfection wisdom, a clear and vivid color blue, frighteningly intense, shines piercingly from the heart center of the Vairochana couple, dazzling yours eyes unbearably.

Simultaneously the soft white light of the gods shines upon you and penetrates you along with the bright blue light. Confused in the manifestation of the spiritual reality, you panic and are terrified of that bright blue light of Reality Perfection wisdom and you attempt to flee from it. You tend to feel an attraction to the soft white light of the gods, and you approach it.

Listen! You must not panic at the blue light; the clear, piercing, brilliant, frightening supreme wisdom clear light! Do not fear it! It is the light ray of the Transcendent Lord, the Reality Perfection wisdom, the oneness of th Infinite Potential. Feel attracted to it with faith and reverence! Make it answer to your prayer, thinking, "It is the light ray of compassion of Lord Vairochana - I must take refuge in it!" It is the way Lord Vairochana comes to escort you through the straits of the spiritual between. It is the light ray of the compassion of Vairochana. Do not be enticed by the soft white light of the gods. Do not be attached to it! Do not long for it! If you cling to it, you will wander into the realm of the gods, and you will continue to cycle through the seven realms of driven existence in the life cycle. It is an obstacle to merging into the Infinite oneness, the path of peace and harmony, so do not look upon it. Become devoted to the brilliant penetrating blue light, aim your intense willpower toward Vairochana, and repeat after me the following prayer:

"When I roam the life cycle driven by confusion in the manifestations of the Infinite, May the Lord Vairochana lead me on the path of clear light of reality-perfection wisdom! May his Consort Buddha Dhatvishvari back me on the way, deliver me from the perilous straits of the between, and carry me to the perfect Buddhahood!"

Thus praying with fierce devotion, you dissolve into rainbow light into the heart of the Vairochana couple. There you will enter the central pure land Ghanavyuha, Dense Array, and become a Buddha by way of the Body of Perfect Beatitude!