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6o The Main ommentaryThe third visualization is called pung de. Here, the emphasis is on light

instead of the,white kundalini energy. Limitless blissful radiant light emanatesfrom Heruka Vajrasattva s heart in a powerful beam that bursts through hissex chakra and your crown chakra and enters your central channel. It is whitebut has a rainbow-like quality with red, yellow, green, and blue in it as well.The instant this brilliant light enters your body it completely dispels the darkness of your doubt-wracked, indecisive mind and your ignorance, attachment, and aversion; all of these disappear forever. It is like switching on a lightin a dark room, where the darkness vanishes instantly and no longer existsanywhere. It doesn t go out the window, does it t simply vanishes. Thus,there is no space for darkness or impurity anywhere in your brain, throat, orany other part ofyour necvous system. You are as clear as crystal. Feel that youhave been completely purified, especially of the most subtle negativities.

When you are in retreat, you can do each of these purifying techniques ineach session by dividing the period for mantra recitation into three, or spendan entire session on each method separately, using the next technique in thefollowing session.

When you are not in retreat, it is highly beneficial for you to practice thismeditation every day, reciting the Heruka Vajrasattva mantra twenty-onetimes with each of the three techniques. The best time to do it is at night, justbefore you go to bed. During the day you are so busy that you are likely tomeditate distractedly. Therefore, as the last thing at night, you completelypurify all the nonvittues you created during the day and go to sleep feelingfree and liberated instead of sad and bothered by the day s negativities.Because we are constantly involved in so much activity, we need a powerfulyoga method such as this. There is so little time to purify.

The weight of unpurified negative karmic imprints increases exponentially,but if we recite the Vajrasattva mantra just twenty-one times at the end ofeach day, even the negative karma of tantric vows broken that day will notincrease. If this method has the power to prevent from increasing the negative karma that results from broken tantric root vows which are the highest vows and most serious transgressions of al l of course it can stop theincrease of negativities from actions that are nonvirtuous by nature (naturalnegativities), such as killing and so forth, and other broken vows. Moreover,ifwe recite this mantra properly one hundred thousand times, all negativitieswhatsoever can be completely purified.

While you recite the mantra, it is essential that you remain in singlepointed concentration; do not allow any samsaric thoughts to interrupt your

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The urification rmeditation. If you can do your practice with good concentration and stablepenetrative insight, it will be tremendously effective in eradicating impureconcepts and the darkness of emotional obstacles. That purification comesfrom the power of your concentrated meditation, but the mantra too h spower of its own. Sometimes it brings you telepathic visions of things that arehappening on the other side of the planet. When you purify the obstacles ofnarrow emotional concepts, you will discover a whole new world.

Mantra can also enable you to read the minds ofothers. That can cause youpleasure or pain; it depends what the other person is thinking Many otherthings can happen too i t all depends upon the individual; when peopleretreat, they have different experiences and receive different realizations. t isvery difficult for us to tell who has realized what. Some become AmericanVajrasattvas, some Asian Vajrasattvas, some European Vajrasattvas, someAustralian Vajrasattvas ...who knows