Text 15.18 (Commentary)

[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 15.18]

... [Uttering, ...], [17] he discarded the hearts and all sense-organs of the hosts of great venomous spirits such as Maheśvara, he extracted their entrails, cut off their limbs, ate all their flesh, drank all their blood, and wore all their bones. [18] ...

[Tibetan]

dbang-phyug chen-po la-sogs-pa / gdug-pa chen-po'i tshogs de-dag-gi snying-dang dbang-po kun phyung / nang-grol kun-drangs / yan-lag kun bcad-gtubs-nas khrag sha kun zos / khrag kun 'thungs-na rus-pa kun 'chos-so / [18]

Commentary:

[The second concerning the actual "liberation” (comments on Ch. 15.18):]

Those hosts of wrathful deities discarded the hearts (snying) and inner organs of the hosts of great venomous spirits such as Maheśvara (dbang-phyug chen-po la-sogs-pa gdug-pa chen-po'i tshogs de-dag-gi), cutting off the essence of egotism in the aggregates of consciousness; and (dang) they discarded all (kun phyung) their sense-organs (dbang-po) including the eyes, thereby obstructing the senses which apprehend objects. They extracted all their entrails (nang-khrol kun drangs) including intestines, thereby rejecting attachment to the body which is the support of the subject-object dichotomy. They cut off all their limbs (yan-lag kun bcad gtubs) including the head, thereby destroying the propensities for existence, and then (nas) they ate all their flesh (sha-kun zos), thereby purifying delusion, drank all their blood (khrag-kun 'thungs), purifying desire, and wore all their bones (-nas rus-pa kun 'chos-so), thereby purifying hatred.

[iii. The third subdivision (of the eradication of the proud spirits) concerns the Joyfulness experienced through sexual union with the female spirits.]

It has two parts, namely, the miracle of absorbing the world and the display manifested through the great rite of sexual union.

[The former has two aspects, of which the first concerning the absorbing of the container-world (comments on Ch. 15.19):]

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