¹ Cf. p. 126

². The deceased, having by now fallen to lower and lower stages of the Bardo, looks to the heaven—worlds (which are worlds of embodiment within the Sangsāra) rather than to Nirvana (which is non—Sangsäric) as a place of refuge.Although, theoretically, Nirvana is ever realizable from any stage of the Bardo, practically, for the ordinary devotee, it is not, meritorious karma beinginadequate; hence the lāma or reader officiating aims at making the best of thesituation in which, it is assumed, the deceased inevitably finds himself.