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Those who, with joyful devotion,
Perform physical activities
At stūpas and statues of the Unsurpassed One
Will have abundant riches in every lifetime.

Those who circumambulate a shrine
Will have a kind and pure countenance,
A good complexion, and be bright too.
They will dwell in happiness.

By hearing this essence mantra of wisdom, even one time, one will obtain the perfection of wisdom.

namas tathāgatāya aparimitājñānagocarāya | namo bhagavate jñānapāramitā | ye jñānam | me kuru kuru vigaṇa | tathāgatasya samayam anusmara | hi hi hi hi jñā jñā jñā jñā hūṃ hūṃ phaṭ |

When one verbally recites this constantly, one will understand all the aphoristic and extensive teachings,4 one will purify the five deeds of immediate retribution, and one will also overcome all bad views.

How should those who follow the teachings on emptiness be understood in terms of being neither attached nor free from attachment? Followers of the teachings on emptiness are not attached to anything and are not devoid of attachment. That to which one either is attached or is free from attachment is known and seen to be emptiness.

Though there are many dhāraṇīs that were spoken by the noble ones,
This dhāraṇī was spoken directly by Vajrabhairava.
It is the supreme dhāraṇī endowed with the seven protective acts,
The holiest dhāraṇī that is the most extraordinary yoga.

If one is in saṃsāra, the aggregates, the constituents, and the sense fields will exist. If these exist, there will be the experience of joy and sorrow. However, if one is aware that things are inherently unborn, and one has cleared away both the extremes‍—of permanent unchanging substantiality and of the nonexistence and negation of things‍—then one will reach the highest perfect and complete awakening.

My teacher is golden like a heap of campaka flowers,
Stainless like refined gold.
His discipline pure, his wisdom spotless,
He is unequaled in the three worlds, the supreme among beings.

It is the nature of things that whenever a blessed buddha smiles, rays of light of many colors‍—blue, yellow, red, white, crimson, and the colors of crystal and silver‍—stream forth from the blessed buddha’s mouth. These illuminate and pervade worlds without end, reaching as far as the Brahmā realms where they outshine even the sun and the moon.