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It also states: "By this principle, active perfuming and other bījas cause bījas to generate superior active manifestations; due to the power of the active manifestation, inferior bījas become superior. That is, at the diamond-like (vajropama) stage, although the essence of the bījas is complete, their function has not yet become superior. Upon reaching the fruit of Buddhahood, the similar bījas of the preceding moment generate the active resultant path of superior liberation; by the power of this path, the bījas capable of generating it also become the most superior; hence it says 'simultaneously transformed'." The principle is simply not so. In the system of Dharmapāla, newly perfumed and fundamental bījas are both accepted as generating active manifestations; how could it be that in generating the fruit, the new alone does not arise and only the fundamentally existent arises? For the Mirror Wisdom and the All-Accomplishing Wisdom, because there is no active wisdom in the causal stage to act as the perfumer, and because they are aided by other active manifestations, they arise solely from the fundamentally existent—this principle is truly so; but for the Equality Wisdom and the Wondrous Contemplation, that they should arise solely from fundamental bījas is an inadmissible principle. If you say, "Since the active manifestation of the diamond-like uninterrupted [path] is inferior, how could it perfume bījas so that they become superior, and therefore it arises from the fundamentally existent?"—this is also not so. If the fundamental bījas are already inferior, how could they generate a superior active liberation? Since you accept that inferior bījas can generate superior active manifestations, why not accept that an inferior active manifestation can perfume and generate superior bījas? Furthermore, that an active perfumer does not generate superior bījas, while a bīja that is not a perfumer should generate a superior active manifestation, is an unacceptable principle. Moreover, the function of perfuming does not increase upon reaching the fruit; if the active superior liberation increases its fundamental bījas, then it would still increase in the fruit, which is unreasonable. Therefore, one should believe that although the active manifestation of the diamond-like uninterrupted [path] is inferior, it can perfume superior bījas and also cause the capacity of the fundamental bījas to increase. The Mirror and All-Accomplishing Wisdoms arise solely from fundamental bījas, while the Wondrous Contemplation and Equality Wisdoms arise from the combination of fundamental and new; this accords with correct principle. The meanings of 'simultaneous transformation' and 'transformation through extinction' are as explained before.