The Changeless Nature

64 The Changeless Nature135 When bees are very irritated, they sting.Likewise, once anger has arisen,to the heart it brings but suffering.136 Just as kernels of rice and other grainsare covered outwardly by husks and skins,so similarly is the vision of the very essenceobscured by the 'shell' of ignorance.137 Filth is something unpleasant —like such filth is the active state,causing those who are involvedin gratification to indulge.138 When the wealth was covered, they,not knowing, its treasure could not obtain.In a similar way the spontaneously-arisingis concealed by ignorance's latent traces.139 Just as the germ and so on split the huskof their grain by their gradual growth,so insight into thatness dispels likewise'obscurations to be abandoned through insight'.140 Those who, through following the pathof the realised, have overcome the very pith,the beliefs that the destructibleand multiple could be a self,still have obscurations to be abandonedthrough the jnana of the path of cultivation.These have been illustrated asbeing like those tattered rags.141 In the seven deep levels the impurities which remainare comparable to impurities in the confine of a womb.Release from them is like freedom from that wombwhilst non-conceptual jnana is like finally maturing.142 The impurities related to the three deep levelsshould be known as similar to the traces of clay.These are those to be eliminatedby the vajra-like samadhi of the 'Great'.