(Repeat three times. Then the disciples should recite the prayer of taking the Three Refuges and the confession, and so on).

I take refuge in the Three Precious Ones,

I take refuge in the Red Yama.

I confess all the sins that I have committed.

I raise the sympathetic joy toward all good deeds.

To the Buddhas and Bodhi, I aspire.

From now on till the time of my attaining the Bodhi,

I shall take refuge in the Three Precious Ones,

For the sake of benefitting others and self,

I now raise the all-virtuous Bodhi Heart.

I will serve all sentient beings as their servant.

I will practice the all-virtuous Action-of Bodhi[r_5:4].

For the benefit of sentient beings,

I offer my heart in the pursuit of Bodhi-Fruit.

(Recite three times; bless the disciples with the holy grass.)

Now, disciples, you should visualize the Red Yama as follows:

You all, each of you instantaneously, become the Red Yama,

Three faces, six arms, and four feet extending apart.

The right face, blue; the left, black; and the center, red.

The three right arms hold club, Vajra, and knife.

The three left arms hold blood-skull, bell, and long club.

You become completely adorned with all the Fierce ornaments

And sit on the Lotus-cushion of the Sun-Moon disc.

In this manner you should visualize yourself as the Red Yama. See a white Om placed at your forehead, a red Ah at your throat, a blue Hum at your heart. From them emanate infinite rays of light reaching to the Buddha's Pure Land and also the Land of Self-Nature[r_5:5] inviting all the Buddhas and the Red Yama together with infinite incantation, tantric symbols and seeds[r_5:6] to come here, and they all enter and are absorbed in you as the rain falls into the ocean and merges with it.

(Play all musical instruments.)

Hum! the Red Yama and all deities!

I pray you to come down here and to bless these faithful and gifted disciples!

I pray you to grant them the highest initiation;

Thus they may eschew temptations and not go astray,

Thus they may be freed from all the causes of accidental and untimely death[r_5:7].

Om S'ri Hum S'ri Hum Savha Betsa Ah Bi Sha Ya Ah Ah

(Recite this incantation as much as possible and play the musical instruments. Next, the Guru places the Diamond Flower on the heads of the disciples.) [**]

Now the disciples should think that the Wisdom Buddha is consolidated.

Di Cha Ben Tsa!

Thereupon the Guru holds the vase in his hand and says:

This is the vase in which the Red Yama resides; I now place it on your head,

I now grant you the Four Initiations of the Red Yama.

Om S'ri Hum S'ri Hum Savha Ga Na Sha Gu Hap Tsa Dur Ah Bi Ai Tsa Hum!

(He places the Vase on the heads of the disciples and baptizes them.)