འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.6

3.6

If someone has committed a bad action and seeks to completely purify themselves of it, then with shame in their minds and with great fear and terror in believing that the bad action will certainly ripen in the future, they should make a confession in this way.³³⁸

“As an analogy, if a man’s hair were on fire or his clothes were on fire, he would quickly do nothing other than put it out. Then when the fire was put out, he would attain relief.

“Someone who has committed a bad action should also in that way do nothing other than quickly confess and repent, and thereby purify themselves of it.³³⁹

“If anyone wishes to be reborn into a wealthy family and possess much wealth and jewels, or has any other kind of aspiration to practice the Mahāyāna, they should purify themselves of karmic obscurations through practicing purity through regret.

“If they wish for rebirth in a family where the father is a venerable brahmin, or in the family of a kṣatriya or a cakravartin who possesses the seven jewels, they should purify themselves of karmic obscurations through practicing purity through regret.

“Noble son, if they wish to be reborn among the devas of the Cāturmahārāja­kāyika, the devas of Trāyastriṃśa, the devas of Yāma, the devas of Tuṣita, the devas of Nirmāṇarati, or the devas of Paranirmita­vaśavartin, they should purify themselves of karmic obscurations through practicing purity through regret.

“If they wish to be reborn among the Brahmakāyika devas, the Brahmapurohita devas, the Mahābrahmā devas, the Parīttābha devas, the Apramāṇābha devas, the Ābhāsvara devas, the Parīttaśubha devas, the Apramāṇaśubha devas, the Śubhakṛtsna devas, the Anabhraka devas, the Puṇyaprasava devas, the Bṛhatphala devas, the Avṛha devas, the Atapa devas, the Sudṛśa devas, the Sudarśana³⁴⁰ devas, or the Akaniṣṭha devas, they should purify themselves of karmic obscurations through practicing purity through regret.