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eautiful if expiation is complete but as a repulsive old
leper-woman if the sins have to be further confessed.
d. Most Secretly. The holy light of one's meditations
will be clear blue or white if the evil deeds are
confessed, but dull in color if not.
5. Practice of Confession
One must be instructed in the visualization of
Vajrasattva by a teacher. He will tell one that the deity
should be visualized on the head of the meditator. After
reciting one's faults earnestly and with tears, one asks
the deity, "I have confessed my evil deeds. May I be
successful in my meditations and from you gain purity."
Then one's own faults and the misdeeds of others are
visualized as gathered in the body, and all the body
seems black and slimy with this mass of sins. From his
heart, with the Hundred-Syllable Mantra, some nectar is
seen, which passes out of his vajra to shower down the
median channel of the meditator. All the blackness and
dirt ooze from the body and pass away from it,
seemingly in the form of urine, perspiration, and wind,
leaving it clear and fresh.
The mantra of Vajrasattva should, like every other
incantation, be imparted by a guru, though we give its
meaning here for meditative purposes:
1. OM VAJRASATTVA SAMAYA—Calling his name
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