Short Sadhana

62-Deity Heruka Chakrasamvara

On the centre of an eight-petalled polylotus, on a sun seat, is Lord Shri Heruka, black with four faces the principal black, the left green, the rear red, and the right yellow, each with three eyes and twelve arms. He stands in alidha posture, with his e tended right leg trampling the head of !hairava, who is black and has four arms, the first pair with folded palms, the other pair holding a damaru and sword, while his bent left leg tramples the breasts of "alarati, who is red and has four arms, the first pair with folded palms, the other pair holding a skull and khatvanga. !oth these #seats$ have one face with three eyes, and are adorned with the five symbolic ornaments. His first pair of arms, right, holding a five-pointed va%ra and left a va%rabell, embrace &a%ra-varahi. 'he ne t pair hold stretched out behind his back a white, bloody elephant-skin cloak, the right hand holding its left foreleg and the left its left hind-leg, with the tips of both forefingers straight towards the eyebrows. 'he other right hands hold a damaru, an a e, a knife and a raised trident, the other left hands a khatvanga marked with a va%ra, a blood-filled skull, a va%ra noose and !rahma$s four-faced head. He has a top-knot of black tresses marked with crossed va%ra, each crown is adorned with a garland of five dried skulls with a garland of black va%ras strung above and below, and to the left of the crown he wears a slightly crooked crescent moon. His faces are distorted and open-mouthed, each baring four huge fangs. He wears a tiger-skin loincloth, a garland of fifty fresh human heads strung on human entrails hanging from his neck, and a serpent as sacred thread. (mbued with all the nine dramatic sentiments, he is sealed with the si symbolic ornaments, his entire body being smeared with the ashes of human bones. )acing the Lord is the Lady &a%ra-varahi, red with one three-eyed face and two arms, naked, her hair loose, and with a girdle made of fragments of skulls. Her left arm embraces the )ather around his neck and holds a skull full of blood of the four *aras, from which a stream trickles down for him to drink. Her right hand brandishes aloft a va%ra and with threatening forefinger threatens all malicious beings of the ten directions. She has a great splendour of sun-like radiance like the fire at the time of destruction of the aeon. She is menstruating, her body hairs are erect all over, and her calves clasp the )ather tightly above his thighs. Laughing a little, of the nature of +ompassion, she wears a crown of five dry human heads and a long necklace of fifty and is adorned with the five symbolic ornaments.

Short Sadhana

'he Lord, 'he Lord of the )amily, -kshobya. Seed syllable, H.*. Heart mantra, OH SH/( &-0/- H1-H1 /.-/. "-* H.* H.* 2H-', 3-"(4(0-L--S-*!-/-* S&-H-. &a%ra-vahari, Lord of the )amily, &airocana. *antra, O* &-0/-&-(/O+-4(51 H.* H.* 2H-' S6-H-. -ll-purpose mantra, "handarohi$s O* "H-43-/O7H18 H.* H.* 2H-'. 2raise, 'o Shri-Heruka, great Hero, Lord of pure va%ra, and, of those 9reat in passion and attachment, &a%ra-varahi, ( bow. Heroes, Heroines and Ladies Of seats, minor seats and fields, -ssembly grounds, and charnel grounds 'o all of you, devout homage: