Searching...
Showing 1-1
Passages similar to: The Tibetan Book of the Dead — Book I: Instructions on the Symptoms of Death, or the First Stage of the Chikhai Bardo: The Primary Clear Light Seen at the Moment of Death
Source passage
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Instructions on the Symptoms of Death, or the First Stage of the Chikhai Bardo: The Primary Clear Light Seen at the Moment of Death (1.3)
As regards the time for the application [of these instructions]: When the expiration bath ceased, the vital-force will have sunk into the nerve-centre of Wisdom and the Knower will be experiencing the Clear Light of the natural condition. Then, the vital-force, being thrown backwards and flying downwards through the right and left nerves, the Intermediate State momentarily dawns.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (4.4.1)
When this self comes to weakness and to confusedness of mind, as it were, then the breaths gather around him. He takes to himself those particles of...