01. Perceiving the mind.
Upon this being said, all the Tathagatas spoke with one voice to the Bodhisattva: O noble son, accomplish it through the meditation that discerns your mind and by reciting at will this self perfected mantra:
OM CITTA-PRATIVEDHAM KAROMl. (I penetrate the mind).
Then, the Bodhisattva said this to all the Tathagatas: O Lord Tathagatas, just as instructed, I perceive in my heart the form of a lunar disc. All the Tathagatas replied: O noble son, this mind is luminous by nature. When it is acted upon, so it becomes, just as a white garment stained with dye.
02. Raising the thought of enlightenment (bodhicitta).
Then, once again, in order to augment the knowledge of the naturally luminous mind, all the Tathagatas directed the Bodhisattva to raise the thought of enlightenment (bodhi-citta) with this self-perfected mantra:
OM BODHI CITTAM UTPADAYAMI. I raise the thought of enlightenment.
Then, once again, having raised the thought of enlightenment just as instructed by all the Tathagatas, the Bodhisattva said: ‘That form, I truly see it as a lunar disc.’70 All the Tathagatas said: The essence of all the Tathagatas has become manifested in you as the Samantabhadra thought of enlightenment. You should duly attain it.
03. Perfecting the vajra thought.
In order to stabilise the production of that thought as Samantabhadra of all the Tathagatas, you should envisage a vajra form on the lunar disc inside your heart by means of this mantra:
OM TISTHA VAJRA. (Abide vajra).
04. Realising the vajra body.
The Bodhisattva spoke up: O Lord Tathagatas, I behold a vajra on the lunar disc. All the Tathagatas replied: Make firm this thought as Samantabhadra of all the Tathagatas with this mantra:
OM VAJRA TMAKO HAM. (I am of the vajra nature).
Then all the elements of the Body, Speech and Mind of all the Tathagatas abiding throughout the whole of space penetrated that being with the empowerment of all the Tathagatas. Next, all the Tathagatas consecrated that Lord Mahabodhisattva Sarvarthasiddhi with the vajra name consecration, saying: Vajradhatu, Vajradhatu.
05. Perfecting the Buddha-body.
Then, the Mahabodhisattva Vajradhatu said this to all the Tathagatas: Lord Tathagatas, I perceive myself as the Body of all the Tathagatas. All the Tathagatas replied:
Consequently, O Mahasattva, you should envisage yourself, the being vajra, as a Buddha-form endowed with all the most excellent forms, reciting at will this self-perfected mantra:
OM YATHA SARVATATHAGATAS TATHAHAM. (I am just as all the Tathagatas are).
Upon this being pronounced, the Mahabodhisattva Vajradhatu himself became perfectly enlightened as a Tathagata, and bowing down before all the Tathagatas said this: Bless me, O Lord Tathagatas, and make firm this state of enlightenment.
Once he had said this, all the Tathagatas became infused into the being vajra of the Tathagata Vajradhatu. Then, at that very moment, the Lord Tathagata Vajradhatu became completely awakened to the knowledge of the sameness of all the Tathagatas, penetrating into the secret pledge of the knowledge of the vajra
sameness of all the Tathagatas, and becoming pure by nature in the realisation of the knowledge of the sameness of the Dharma of all the Tathagatas, and becoming the repository of the naturally luminous knowledge of the complete sameness of all the Tathagatas and thus he became a Tathagata, an Arhat and a perfectly enlightened Buddha.