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Authors: Jeffrey Hopkins
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- Repeat the above.
Mental repetition
- Repeat the above.
- Holding your breath after inhalation and focusing on the three— the front deity, moon, and letters—repeat mantra mentally as if listening to your own recitation.
While exhaling, switch to observing yourself as a deity without repetition.
- Holding your breath after inhalation and focusing on the three— the front deity, moon, and letters—repeat mantra mentally as if listening to your own recitation.
- Repeat the above.
Resting
- Repeat the above.
- Stop repeating mantra.
Ceasing to visualize the forms of the mantra letters, observe the moon on which they stood at the heart in the deity in front
(which is the moon branch).
- Stop repeating mantra.
- Ceasing to visualize the moon, observe the deity in front
(which is the branch called “other-base”).
Ceasing to visualize the deity in front, observe your own divine body
(which is the branch called “self-base” and, within it, the sixth deity, the sign deity, as well as the fourth deity, the form deity).
- Ceasing to visualize the moon, observe the deity in front
- Ceasing to visualize your divine body, observe the letters on the moon disc in space
(which is the second part of the third deity, the “letter deity”).
Ceasing to visualize the letters on the moon, observe the moon disc in space
(which is the first part of the letter deity).
- Ceasing to visualize your divine body, observe the letters on the moon disc in space
- Ceasing to visualize the moon disc, observe the sounds of the man-tra reverberating in space
(which is the second deity, the “sound deity”).
Ceasing to observe the sounds of the mantra, observe the pride of the sameness of the nature of yourself and the deity
(which is the last part of the first deity, the “ultimate deity”).194
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- Ceasing to visualize the moon disc, observe the sounds of the man-tra reverberating in space
- Ceasing to observe the pride of the sameness of the nature of yourself and the deity, observe the suchness of self, your own emptiness of inherent existence
(which is the first part of the “ultimate deity”).
Remain in meditative equipoise on your own emptiness.
- Ceasing to observe the pride of the sameness of the nature of yourself and the deity, observe the suchness of self, your own emptiness of inherent existence
- All at once rise in a divine body, which is the same as that visualized earlier.
Between sessions
Between sessions remain within deity yoga, albeit not as complete as before, going about daily activities.
(b) Repeat mantra within observing the form of the letters at your own heart
Whispered repetition
- All at once rise in a divine body, which is the same as that visualized earlier.
- Inhale—into your own heart from the heart of the deity in front— the moon disc together with the mantra letters standing at its edge.
Perform whispered repetition, focusing on the moon and letters.
- Inhale—into your own heart from the heart of the deity in front— the moon disc together with the mantra letters standing at its edge.
- At the end of exhaling, emit the moon and letters back to the deity in front, focusing on moon and letters, without repetition.
Repeat the above.Mental repetition
- At the end of exhaling, emit the moon and letters back to the deity in front, focusing on moon and letters, without repetition.
- Inhale—into your own heart from the heart of the deity in front— the moon disc together with the mantra letters standing at its edge without repetition.
Stop your breath and recite mantra mentally, focusing on moon and letters, as if your mind is in the center of the moon disc and is reading the letters of the mantra standing on the edge of the moon disc facing inward.
- Inhale—into your own heart from the heart of the deity in front— the moon disc together with the mantra letters standing at its edge without repetition.
- When exhaling, stop repetition of mantra, and move the moon and letters with your breath to the deity’s heart—focusing on the moon and letters.
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(2) Repeat mantra within observing the sound of the letters
Whispered repetition
- When exhaling, stop repetition of mantra, and move the moon and letters with your breath to the deity’s heart—focusing on the moon and letters.
- Within retaining visualization of the deity in front and yourself as a deity with the moon and the mantra letters on the moon at your heart, repeat mantra in whisper, focusing on just the sounds.
Mental repetition
- Within retaining visualization of the deity in front and yourself as a deity with the moon and the mantra letters on the moon at your heart, repeat mantra in whisper, focusing on just the sounds.
- Within retaining visualization of the deity in front and yourself as a deity with the moon and the mantra letters on the moon at your heart, repeat mantra mentally while stopping breath and distraction, focusing on just the sounds.
Concluding the concentration of the four-branched repetition
With the vase seal (seal 36) offer the virtue of the session for the sake of feats:
- Within retaining visualization of the deity in front and yourself as a deity with the moon and the mantra letters on the moon at your heart, repeat mantra mentally while stopping breath and distraction, focusing on just the sounds.
- I offer this virtuous root of mine to the Supramundane Victor as a cause of such and such feat. O Protector, please bestow such and such feat.
Arrange whatever offerings have been newly acquired, and clear away obstructors in the flowers and so forth through repeating into scented water either the mantra of Ku
ṇḍ
ali:Namo ratnatray
ā
ya, nama
ṣ
ca
ṇḍ
a-vajrap
āṇ
aye, mah
ā
yak
ṣ
asenapa- taye, namo vajrakrodh
ā
ya, tadyath
ā
o
ṃ
hulu hulu ti
ṣṭ
ha ti
ṣṭ
ha bandha bandha hana hana am
ṛ
te h
ūṃ
pha
ṭ
.or the mantra of all activities of the lotus lineage:
O
ṃ
namo mah
ā
-
ś
r
ī
y
ā
yai, sau me siddhi siddha s
ā
dhaya,
ś
ivi
ś
iva
ṃ
- kari, abhaha, sarva-artha-s
ā
dhani sv
ā
h
ā
.Putting scented water into the left hand, repeat into the water the lineage essence:
Ā
rolik.and sprinkle the flowers and so forth. From the seal of dispelling obstructors (seal 10), construct the seal of generating magnificence (seal 14), and with it distribute magnificence on top of the perfume, flowers, and so forth and repeat the mantra of generating magnificence:
O
ṃ
divya divya dhipaya, avesha mah
āś
r
ī
ye sv
ā
h
ā
.thinking that thereby:
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- I offer this virtuous root of mine to the Supramundane Victor as a cause of such and such feat. O Protector, please bestow such and such feat.
- The offerings turn into perfect divine substances.
Then, bless them into magnificence with the mantra of Ku
ṇḍ
ali:
Namo ratnatray
ā
ya, nama
ṣ
ca
ṇḍ
a-vajrap
āṇ
aye, mah
ā
yak
ṣ
asenapa- taye, namo vajrakrodh
ā
ya, tadyath
ā
o
ṃ
hulu hulu ti
ṣṭ
ha ti
ṣṭ
ha bandha bandha hana hana am
ṛ
te h
ūṃ
pha
ṭ
.and repeat the essence mantra of the lotus lineage:
Ā
rolik.With the oblation seal (seal 28), offer oblation, saying:
You have come blissfully, Supramundane Victor. Come here and please be seated.
- The offerings turn into perfect divine substances.
- Receiving my oblation also,
Please take pleasure mentally from this. I have respect for you.Argha
ṃ
prat
ī
ccha sv
ā
h
ā
.With the foot-bath seal (seal 29), offer a foot-bath, saying:
You have come blissfully, Supramundane Victor.
- Receiving my oblation also,
- Come here and please be seated. Receiving my foot-bath also,
Please take pleasure mentally from this. I have respect for you.O
ṃ
pravarasatkara
ṃ
prat
ī
ccha sv
ā
h
ā
.With the seal of washing the body (seal 30), imagine washing the deity’s body with great clouds of perfumed water which have risen from many precious gold vases and so forth filled with fragrant perfumes; say:
- Come here and please be seated. Receiving my foot-bath also,
- You have come blissfully, Supramundane Victor. Come here and please be seated.
Receiving my bath also,
- You have come blissfully, Supramundane Victor. Come here and please be seated.
- Please take pleasure mentally from this. I have respect for you.
O
ṃ
sarvadevat
ā
-acinta-am
ṛ
ta sv
ā
h
ā
.Mentally offer clothing and adornments; offer music, and mentally raise up melodies of praise.
With the perfume seal (seal 31), offer perfume, saying:
With faith I offer these perfumes
- Please take pleasure mentally from this. I have respect for you.
- Of wholesome divine substances Arisen from the clean, most clean. Receiving them, be pleased with me.
Ā
hara
ā
hara sarvavidy
ā
dhari p
ū
jite sv
ā
h
ā
.With the flower seal (seal 32), offer flowers, saying:
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- Of wholesome divine substances Arisen from the clean, most clean. Receiving them, be pleased with me.
- With faith I offer these flowers Of auspicious divine substance,
Grown from the clean, most clean. Receiving them, be pleased with me.
Ā
hara
ā
hara sarvavidy
ā
dhari p
ū
jite sv
ā
h
ā
.With the incense seal (seal 33), offer incense, saying:
With faith I offer divine substances
- With faith I offer these flowers Of auspicious divine substance,
