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[Naam Simran Shabad]

Extracts from The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol), edited by
Dr. W. Y. Evans-Wentz (London, 1957):

0 nobly-born, when thy body and mind were separating
thou must have experienced a glimpse of the
Pure Truth, subtle, sparkling, bright, dazzling, glorious,
and radiantly awesome, in appearance like a
mirage moving across a landscape in springtime in
one continuous stream of vibrations. Be not daunted
thereby, nor terrified, nor awed. That is the radiance
of thine own true nature. Recognize it.
From the midst of that radiance, the natural sound
of Reality, reverberating like a thousand thunders
simultaneously sounding, will come. That is the natural
sound of thine own real self. Be not daunted
thereby, nor terrified, nor awed.
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0 nobly-born, five-colored radiances . . . vibrating
and dazzling like colored threads, flashing, radiant,
and transparent, glorious and awe-inspiring, will . . .
strike against thy heart, so bright that the eye cannot
bear to look upon them.
. . . Be not afraid of that brilliant radiance of five
colors, nor terrified; but know that Wisdom to be
thine own.
Within those radiances, the natural sound of the
Truth will reverberate like a thousand thunders. The
sound will come with a rolling reverberation . . . Fear
not. Flee not. Be not terrified. Know them (i.e., these
sounds) to be (of) . . . thine own inner light.
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