An Introduction to Tantric Buddhism c7.44

c7.44

In the *Vajra-tārā-sādhanam* it is prescribed that one should ponder over the nature of the *dharmas*, whose ultimate nature is the *citta*; the *citta* itself takes the illusory appearances of the varieties of the *dharmas*. As in dream there is no knowable outside the mind, and yet the mind perceives things,—so also is the case with the life-experiences. So, all the *dharmas* are made up of the substance of consciousness, and the absolute negation of the perceiver and the perceived is the ultimate reality.² With this firm conviction the Sādhaka should do away with the illusory appearances of things and perceive their ultimate nature as infinite non-dual pure consciousness, which is bright as pure crystal,—or the cloudless noon-day sky of the autumn. This is the transcendental knowledge of the void,—free from phenomenalisation and all thought-constructions.³