[III. THE CONCLUDING SECTIONS]

[THE GENERAL CONCLUSION]

Though lacking in power of expression, the author has here made a faithful record [of his own yogic experiences].

To one who has tasted honey, it is superfluous for those who have not tasted it to offer an explanation of its taste.1

Not knowing the One Mind, even pandits go astray, despite their cleverness in expounding the many different doctrinal systems.

To give ear to the reports of one who has neither approached nor seen the Buddha 2 even for a moment is like harkening to flying rumours concerning a distant place one has never visited.

Simultaneously with the knowing of the Mind comes release from good and evil.3

If the mind is not known, all practice of good and evil results in nothing more than Heaven, or Hell, or the Sangsara.4

As soon as one's mind is known to be of the Wisdom of the Voidness, concepts like good and evil karma cease to exist.5

Even as in the empty sky there seems to be, but is not, a fountain of water, so in the Voidness is neither good nor evil.6

When one's mind is thus known in its nakedness, this Doctrine of Seeing the Mind Naked, this Self-Liberation, is seen to be exceedingly profound.

Seek, therefore, thine own Wisdom within thee.7 It is the Vast Deep. 8

[THE FINAL GOOD WISHES]

All hail! This is the Knowing of the Mind, the Seeing of Reality, Self-Liberation.

For the sake of future generations who shall be born during the Age of Darkness,9 these essential aphorisms, necessarily brief and concise, herein set forth, were written down in accordance with Tantric teachings.10

Although taught during this present epoch, the text of them was hidden away amidst a cache of precious things.11

May this Book be read by those blessed devotees of the future.

[THE GURU'S FINAL CHARGE TO THE DISCIPLES]

Samayä, ; gya, gya, gya.

[Vast, vast, vast is Divine Wisdom.]12

[THE COLOPHON]

These teachings, called 'The Knowing of the Mind in Its Self-Identifying, Self-Realizing, Self-Liberating Reality', were formulated by Padma-Sambhava,13 the spiritually-endowed Teacher 14 from Urgyan.15

May they not wane until the whole Sangsara is emptied.16

[Here the text ends.]