The shurangama mantra devanagari Shurangama Mantra devanagari | Page 256

【THE SHURANGAMA SUTRA _ EXTRACTION.】
enlightenment and serve as guides of
purity. 8:236
mind are as bright and transparent as
Vaidurya. This is the end of the
consciousness skandha. This person
can then transcend the turbidity of
life spans. Contemplating the cause
of the consciousness skandha, one
sees that the negation of existence
and the negation of nonexistence are
both unreal, and that upside-down
false thoughts are its source. 8:241
”Ananda, when that good person, in
cultivating samadhi, has put an end to
the formations skandha, the subtle,
fleeting fluctuations - the deep,
imperceptible, pivotal source and the
common foundation from which all
life in the world springs - are
suddenly obliterated. In the
submerged network of the retributive
karma of the pudgala, the karmic
resonances are interrupted. 8:238
”Ananda, you should know that the
good person has thoroughly seen the
formations skandha as empty, and he
must return consciousness to the
source. He has ended production and
destruction, but he has not yet
perfected the subtle wonder of
ultimate serenity. 8:242
”There is about to be a great
illumination in the sky of Nirvana. It
is like gazing east at the cock’s final
crow to see the light of dawn. The six
sense faculties are empty and still;
there is no further racing about.
Inside and outside there is a profound
brightness. He enters without
entering. Fathoming the source of life
of the twelve categories of beings
throughout the ten directions, he can
contemplate that source without
being drawn into any of the
categories. He has become identical
with the realms of the ten directions.
The light does not fade, and what was
hidden before is now revealed. This
is the region of the consciousness
skandha. 8:239
”He can cause the individual sense
faculties of his body to unite and
open. He also has a pervasive
awareness of all the categories of
beings in the ten directions. Since his
awareness is pervasive, he can enter
the perfect source. But if he regards
what he is returning to as the cause of
true permanence and interprets this as
a supreme state, he will fall into the
error of holding to that cause. Kapila
the Sankhyan, with his theory of
returning to the Truth of the
Unmanifest, will become his
companion. Confused about the
Bodhi of the Buddhas, he will lose
his knowledge and understanding.
8:243
”If he has become identical with the
beckoning masses, he may obliterate
the individuality of the six gates and
succeed in uniting and opening them.
Seeing and hearing become linked so
that they function interchangeably
and purely. The worlds of the ten
directions and his own body and
”This is the first state, in which he
concludes that there is a place to
which to return, based on the idea
that there is something to attain. He
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