¹Text: rdzüs—skyes (pron. eu—kye), meaning * to be born in disguise *— tdzüs —’ to disguise ’ + skyts = ‘to be born’—or ‘to be born in a supernormal manner’,i. e. ’supernormal birth ’. As the text will proceed to explain, the birth—processin the after—death states is quite unlike that known on earth.

²In error, probably in transcribing, the text here has ‘four* instead 01 ¹ three’.

³ This springing forth, or birth of the Bardo body, about three and one—half days after death, i. e. upon the expiration of the three and one—half (or four) days (comparable to the pre—natal period, normally passed in sleep, or dream, or unconsciousness, on the human—plane), mentioned on pages 93 and 105, is said to occur instantaneously.’Like a trout leaping forth from water’ is the simile used by Tibetan gurus to explain it; it is the actual process of being born in the Intermediate State, paralleling birth in our world.