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Dedication, and requesting the Tathagatas not to pass into Nirvana, urging the turning of the wheel of Dharma, making prayers endowed with seven limbs. Then, recite the verse "Homage to the Three Jewels." Then, as taught by the Tathagatas, one should meditate on the four abodes of Brahma. First, one should meditate on loving-kindness. Second, one should meditate on compassion. Third, one should meditate on joy. Finally, there is equanimity. The thought of benefiting sentient beings is loving-kindness. Removing harm to others is compassion. Rejoicing in the attainment of benefit by others is joy. Taking an attitude of equanimity towards harm to others is equanimity. Then, the mantra practitioner should meditate on emptiness. Meditating that all dharmas are emptiness, abandoning the apprehended and the apprehender, and also meditating oneself as being of that nature. Then, this mantra should be recited: Om, Shunyata, Jnana, Vajra, Svabhava, Atmako'ham. (Tibetan: ཨོཾ་ཤཱུ་ནྱ་ཏཱ་ཛྙཱ་ན་བཛྲ་སྭ་བྷཱ་ཝ་ཨཱཏྨ་ཀོ྅ཧཾ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: ॐ शून्यताज्ञानवज्रस्वभाव आत्माकोऽहम्, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ śūnyatājñānavajrasvabhāva ātmako'ham, Literal Chinese Meaning: Om, emptiness wisdom vajra nature, I am). Om, Svabhava, Shuddha, Sarva Dharma, Svabhava, Shuddho'ham. (Tibetan: ཨོཾ་སྭ་བྷཱ་ཝ་ཤུདྡྷཿ་སརྦ་ྒརྨཱཿ་སྭ་བྷཱ་ཝ་ཤུདྡོ྅ཧཾ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: ॐ स्वभावशुद्धः सर्वधर्माः स्वभावशुद्धोऽहम्, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ svabhāvaśuddhaḥ sarvadharmāḥ svabhāvaśuddho'ham, Literal Chinese Meaning: Om, self-nature pure, all dharmas, self-nature pure I). Then, all dharmas are emptiness, like the sky. In the middle of the sky, one should visualize from the seed syllable "Yam" (Tibetan: ཡཾ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: य, Sanskrit Romanization: yaṃ, Literal Chinese Meaning: Wind) the wind mandala, shaped like a bow, blue in color, marked with a banner, and filled with smoky rays of light. Above that, from the seed syllable "Ram" (Tibetan: རཾ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: र, Sanskrit Romanization: raṃ, Literal Chinese Meaning: Fire) arises the fire mandala, triangular, red in color, filled with a string of burning flames, adorned with vajra ornaments, like the light of half a sun. Above that, from the seed syllable "Vam" (Tibetan: བཾ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: व, Sanskrit Romanization: vaṃ, Literal Chinese Meaning: Water) arises the water mandala, round like a needle, filled with white rays of light, adorned with vase ornaments. Above that, from the seed syllable "Lam" (Tibetan: ལཾ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: ल, Sanskrit Romanization: laṃ, Literal Chinese Meaning: Earth) arises the earth mandala, square, yellow in color, marked with a vajra, filled with yellow rays of light. Above that, from the seed syllable "Sum" (Tibetan: སུཾ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: सु, Sanskrit Romanization: suṃ, Literal Chinese Meaning: Mount Sumeru) arises Mount Sumeru, with the nature of seven precious jewels, beautifully surrounded by eight sides, filled with various rays of light. Above that, from the seed syllable "Vam" (Tibetan: བཾ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: व, Sanskrit Romanization: vaṃ, Literal Chinese Meaning: Water) arises various lotuses. Above that, from the seed syllable "Ram" (Tibetan: རཾ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: र, Sanskrit Romanization: raṃ, Literal Chinese Meaning: Fire) arises the sun mandala. Above that, from the seed syllable "Hum" (Tibetan: ཧཱུཾ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: हुं, Sanskrit Romanization: hūṃ, Literal Chinese Meaning: Hum) completely transformed into various vajras. From its rays of light arises a vajra fence, a vajra tent, a vajra canopy, a net of arrows, surrounded by burning flames on the outside. Om, Medini, Badri, Bhava, Vajra, Banྡྷa Hūṃ. Oṃ Vajra Prākāra Hūṃ Baṃ Hūṃ. Oṃ Vajra Pañjara Hūṃ Yaṃ Hūṃ. Oṃ Vajra Vitāna Hūṃ Khaṃ Hūṃ. Oṃ Vajra Sara Jāla Traṃ Saṃ Traṃ. Oṃ Vajra Jvāla Anālārka Hūṃ Hūṃ Hūṃ. Then, the glorious Wheel of Command of Yamāntaka, blazing with eight spokes. Upon it, everywhere, are lotuses. Upon it is the sun. Upon it are the corpses of the world protectors. Upon the central lotus mandala are Āli Kāli. From Āli Kāli arise the moon and sun. In its center, draw a vajra hammer from the letters Baṃ and Hūṃ. Its liquor offerings are marked with Baṃ and Hūṃ. These become one, from which the body of Yamāntaka is fully complete. Its color is black, greatly wrathful. It terrifies even those who are terrifying. Embracing the Vajra Vetālī. Six faces. Six arms. Two legs. Just like the Blessed One, so too is the Blessed Mother. In the first of the right hands is a vajra hammer. In the second is a wheel. In the third is a white club. In the first of the left hands is a lotus. In the second is a jewel. In the third is a sword. The first face is dark blue. The right is red. The left is white. The second on the right is green. The second on the left is yellow. The face on top is the open sky face. Riding a buffalo. The left leg is extended, trampling the horns and shoulders. The buffalo's feet trample the corpses of the four māras. Then, from the union of the father and mother, the eight directional guardian Yamas appear in the form of messengers. In the east is Yavāti. In the south is Yama Dharmarāja. In the west is Telpa. In the north is the bull-headed one. In the direction of Īśāna is nine tufts of hair. In the direction of Vāyu is smoke. In the direction of Nairṛtya is Phyasaṃs. In the direction of Agni is red eyes. These eight great Yamas, contemplate them as they are, with their colors and forms. Then, from the pores of my skin, rays of light, like the upper part being a wrathful deity and the lower part being like the tip of a kīla, radiate in the ten directions. Invite the Tathāgatas and seat them on the crown of the head. Thus, perform the expanding and contracting, and recite the secret mantra. Oṃ Hrīḥ Ḍhṛḥ Vikṛtānana Hūṃ Hūṃ Sarva Śatrūn Nāśaya Staṃ Bhaya Phat Phat Svāhā. This is the secret mantra of the heart. Oṃ Hrīḥ Ka Ala Rūpa Hūṃ Khaṃ. The near-heart mantra.