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Machik’s Complete Explanation heart. Totally transforming, she became a light-blue ˜›kinı, like the color of the sky, with one face and four arms. The ˜›kinı Queen of Vajra Space was thus enthroned. The Queen of Space spread forth an unimaginable number of emanations of her body, speech, mind, qualities, and activities. But the essential mind or heart emanation was the Vajra Devil-Tamer, with one face, two arms, and a pig’s head protruding through her hair. Bringing all the ˜›kinıs under her control, she overwhelms the three realms of existence and employs all the fierce spirits in her activity. She is the ˜›kinı who is the source of the arising of all phenomena. For the sake of all living beings, the Vajra Devil-Tamer, in order to tame whomever needed to be tamed, took many births as ordinary beings, studying the Tripi˛aka and accomplishing boundless benefit for beings. Finally she came to Tibet as Lapdrönma. She is you.” “Exalted Great Lady,” Machik said, “When you say these things, they do indeed arise again in my mind. If all of these Secret Mantra teachings that you have given me are spread about and explained, wouldn’t it bring great benefit to beings and cause the teachings to grow and flourish?” “Those profound, crucial points of the Highest Secret Mantra that I have explained to you should not be propagated to the masses. Practice them in a hidden way, and make a one-to-one link. The few individuals who have the fortune will be matured and liberated by them. The particular teachings to be propagated that I have taught you are the special methods of the meaning of the four mudr›s and the view of the meaning of the essence of the perfection of wisdom (prajñ›p›ramit›). These two combined inseparably into one will accomplish the welfare of beings. As the Sage ⁄›kyamuni himself predicted, the age of conflict will be your time to tame both the humans and the nonhuman spirits in the Land of Snow. Yoginı, your doctrine will flourish and grow, and you will reach the level of a nonreturner.” After she had said that, boundless light rays emanated from T›r›’s heart and pervaded all over, above, below, and in between. Then light gathered together and dissolved into Machik’s heart. Then the light of T›r› and her entourage filled all of space, dissolved, and vanished in the early morning haze.
Machik went on her way to Copper Mountain. The Black Guardian wearing a black cloth overcoat and the Draklha Guardian, each with their retinue, came out to greet her and convey her to Red House.