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To the Divine Body of Truth, the Incomprehensible, Boundless Light; To the Divine Body of Perfect Endowment, Who are the Lotus and the Peaceful and the Wrathful Deities; To the Lotus-born Incarnation, Padma Sambhava, Who is the Protector of all sentient beings; To the Gurus, the Three Bodies, obeisance.

This Great Doctrine of Liberation by Hearing, which conferreth spiritual freedom on devotees of ordinary wit while in the Intermediate State, hath three divisions: the preliminaries, the subject-matter, and the conclusion.

At first, the preliminaries, The Guide Series, for emancipating beings, should be mastered by practice.

By The Guide, the highest intellects ought most certainly to be liberated; but should they not be liberated, then while