First, the master performs a rite to dispel obstacles. Then the disciples offer a Mandala, visualizing the entire the Kalachakra Mandala and the circle of deities surrounding the principal deity, Kalachakra, as being inseparable from the master, and themselves standing at the eastern gate. Then, with their hands folded and joyful minds they request the Ones Gone Thus, ‘May the two-fold blessings of the great bliss of the supreme and common attainments be bestowed upon me’. They visualize themselves entering the Mandala while repeating the lines after the master and single pointedly contemplating their meaning at each stage in accordance with his Because the disciples are to visualize themselves in the form of deities, in order to help generate divine pride at each stage! they (visualize themselves) attired with divine consumes- Just as a Bhikshu’s robes remind him that he is a monk, so, during initiation (some representative) disciples put on celestial costumes to enhance the sense of divine pride and to dispel ordinary appearances. They put on garments of different colours, a yellow upper robe, a red top knot, and a blindfold and so forth at different stages of the initiation with the master’s permission and according to his instruction. The disciples should think that although these divine costumes have conventional appearance, they do not ultimately exist in that way. Since the secrets of the great Mandala are not to be disclosed to the disciples immediately, they have to temporarily put on a blindfold.
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