Vajrayogini Sadhana

NAMO GURU VAJRADHARA YA

Engage in the yogas of sleeping, rising, and experiencing nectar

and begin the yoga of the immeasurables by sitting in the
essential bodily posture and visualize the field of merit as follows:

Visualizing the Objects of Refuge

In the space before me are guru Chakrasamvara Father

and Mother surrounded by the assembly of root and
lineage gurus, personal deities, three jewels, attendants,
and protectors.

Going for Refuge and Generating Bodhichitta

Once you imagine yourself and all living beings are going for
refuge recite the following verse three times:

I and all living beings equaling the extant of space,

From this time forth and until the essence of
enlightenment is attained
Go for refuge to the glorious holy gurus
Go for refuge to the Bhagawans, the complete Buddhas,
Go for refuge to the sacred Dharma,
Go for refuge to the Arya Sangha.

Recite the following verse three times to generate bodhichitta and

the four immeasurables in general.

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Once I attain the state of a perfectly complete Buddha I
will free all living beings from the ocean of samsaric
suffering and then establish them in the bliss of complete
enlightenment. For that purpose I will practice the stages
of the path of Vajrayogini.

Fold your hands in prayer and recite:

I prostrate and go for refuge to the guru and Three
Precious Jewels and request you all to bless my mental
continuum.

Having recited this:

The objects of refuge before me melt into the aspect of
white, red, and dark blue rays of light. They dissolve into
me whereby I obtain the blessing of their body, speech,
and mind.

If you wish to do the Outer and Inner Offerings, bless them here.

Vajrasattva Meditation and Recitation

On my crown, on a lotus and moon seat, are Vajrasattva

Father and Mother embracing each other. They have
white-colored bodies, one face, and two hands, and hold
a vajra and bell and curved knife and skull cup. The Father
is adorned with six mudras, the Mother with five. They
sit in the vajra and lotus postures. Upon a moon in his
heart is a HUM surrounded by the mantra rosary. From
this a stream of white nectar descends, cleansing all
sickness, spirits, negative karma and obstructions.

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OM VAJRA HERUKA SAMAYA MANU PALAYA,
HERUKA TENO PATITA, DRIDHO ME BHAWA,
SUTO KAYO ME BHAWA, SUPO KAYO ME BHAWA,
ANURAKTO ME BHAWA, SARWA SIDDHI ME
PRAYATZA, SARWA KARMA SUTZA ME, TZITAM
SHRIYAM KURU HUM, HA HA HA HA HO
BAGAWAN, VAJRA HERUKA, MA ME MUNTSA,
HERUKA BHAWA, MAHA SAMAYA SATTO AH HUM
PHAT
Recite at least twenty-one times.

Vajrasattva Father and Mother dissolve into me and my

three doors become indistinguishable from the body,
speech, and mind of Vajrasattva.

The Fifth Yoga: The Yoga of the Guru

In the space before me, upon a precious lion throne, a

variegated lotus, and a moon seat is my root guru in the
aspect of Jetsun Vajradharma. He has a red-colored body,
one face, and two hands. His right hand holds a damaru
that proclaims the sound of bliss and emptiness. His left
hand holds a skullcup filled with nectar at the level of his
heart. He holds a katvanga in the crook of his left arm and
he sits with his legs in the vajra posture. He is adorned
with the six bone ornaments; in the bloom of youth, he is
the nature of all objects of refuge.

If you wish to do the Offerings to the Guru (and you consecrated them
earlier) you can do the Outer, Inner, Secret & Suchness Offerings here.

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Kusali Tsok

My thumb-sized mind in the aspect of the powerful goddess of

Dakini Land exits through the crown of my head and arrives
directly in front of my root guru. I return and cut the skull from
my old body and place it upon three selfarisen human heads. I
cut up the remaining flesh, blood, and bones and heap it up
inside. By looking with wide open eyes I purify, transform, and
increase it into an ocean of nectar.

Then recite the following mantra three times to bless [the substance].

OM AH HUM HA HO HRIH

Imagine:
Limitless goddesses holding skullcups emanate from my heart.
They scoop up the nectar with their skullcups and offer it to the
guests who partake of it with their tongues through tubes of
vajra-light.

By my offering of this nectar of commitment substance

To my root guru the nature of the four bodies
May you be delighted.
OM AH HUM x 7 (Hold the inner offering cup above your head.)

By my offering of this nectar of commitment substance

To the lineage gurus the source of attainments
May you be delighted.
OM AH HUM x 1 (Hold the inner offering cup at your forehead.)

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By my offering of this nectar of commitment substance
To the gurus, personal deities, Three Jewels,
Protectors and so forth
May you be delighted.
OM AH HUM x 1 (Hold the inner offering cup at your throat.)

By my offering of this nectar of commitment substance

To the local lords who continuously abide
May you assist me a thousand times.
OM AH HUM x 1 (Hold the inner offering cup at your heart.)

By my offering of this nectar of commitment substance

To all beings in the six realms and in the intermediate state
May you be liberated.
OM AH HUM x 1 (Hold the inner offering cup at your navel.)

Through this offering all the guests are satiated by

uncontaminated bliss. The living beings are also liberated from
obstructions and attain the truth body. The three circles of the
offerings are the essence of nondual bliss and emptiness that
transcends words, thoughts, or expressions.

Recite the following request three times:

I prostrate and go for refuge to my precious guru, the
nature of all buddhas of the three times, I request you:
Please bless my mental continuum.

Due to his fondness for me, my root guru melts into

the aspect of red light which enters through the crown
of my head, transforms into the aspect of a red letter
BAM at my heart, whereby his mind and mine become
inseparably mixed.

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The Sixth Yoga: The Yoga of Generating Oneself
as the Deity

Bringing Death into the Path of the Truth Body

The very letter BAM increases in size until it

reaches the ends of space whereby all
environments and beings become the nature of
bliss and emptiness. It once again sequentially
collects from the edges until it becomes an
extremely subtle letter BAM and sequentially
dissolves into the nada. Then the nada also
[dissolves] into unobservable emptiness and
becomes the truth body of inseparable bliss and
emptiness.

OM SHUNYATA GYANA VAJRA SOBHAWA AMAKO HAM

Bringing the Intermediate State into the Path of

the Enjoyment Body

From within the state of emptiness where all appearances

have been withdrawn in this way, there appears a red
letter BAM standing upright in space as the perceived
aspect that is the nature of my own mind of the exalted
wisdom of inseparable bliss and emptiness.

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Bringing Rebirth into the Path of the Emanation Body

The syllables EH EH arise from within the state of

emptiness and transform into a red phenomena source, a
double tetrahedron. Within that from AH arises a moon
mandala, white with a red radiance. Upon that is the
mantra OM OM OM SARWA BUDDHA DAKINIYE
VAJRA WARNANIYE VAJRA VAIROTZANIYE
HUM HUM HUM PHAT PHAT PHAT SOHA arranged
counter clockwise. When I, as the letter BAM, see the
moon mandala I am inspired to take rebirth and enter into
the center of the moon. Light rays radiate from the moon,
letter BAM, and mantra rosary making all worlds and
environments in samsara and nirvana into the nature of
Jetsun Vajrayogini. These contract inward and dissolve
into the letter BAM and mantra rosary which completely
transform into the entire supporting and supported
mandala simultaneously.

There is a vajra ground, fence, tent, and canopy.

Beyond that is a blazing heap of five-colored fire
whirling counter-clockwise. Within that circle are the eight
great charnel grounds such as the Fierce One and so forth.
In the center is a red phenomena source a
double tetrahedron with its broad open end
facing upright and its fine tip pointing
downward. The front and back [corners]
are empty yet the four corners each have pink
joy-swirls whirling counter-clockwise.

Within the phenomena source is a variegated

eight petalled lotus with a sun mandala in the

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center. Upon that I arise as Jetsun Vajrayogini. My right leg
outstretched suppresses the breasts of red Kalarati and my bent
left leg
suppresses the bent head of black Ishvara. I have a red colored
body that outshines the fire [at the end of ] the eon. I have one
face, two hands and three eyes looking towards Dakpa Kachö. My
right hand is outstretched and holds a curved knife marked with
a vajra-[handle]. My left hand holds a skull cup filled with blood
that is held aloft as I partake of it with my upturned mouth. My
left elbow holds a katvanga marked with a vajra from which
hangs a damaru, bell, and three pointed pendant. My hair is
black, hanging straight and covers [my back] down my waist. I
am in the bloom of youth, my breasts are voluptuous with desire,
and I reveal a mood that generates bliss. My head is adorned with
five dried human skulls and I wear a necklace of fifty dried skulls.
Naked and adorned with the five mudras I stand in the center of
a blazing fire of exalted wisdom.

The Seventh Yoga: The Yoga of Purifying Living Beings

At my heart is a red phenomena source a double

tetrahedron. Within that is a moon mandala in the center
of which is a letter BAM surrounded by a mantra rosary.
From this, light rays radiate and leave through the pores
of my skin. Reaching all six classes of living beings, it
cleanses all of the negative karma, obscurations, and their
imprints and they all transform into the body of Vajrayogini.

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The Eighth Yoga: The Yoga of Being Blessed by
the Heroes and Heroines

Perform the blazing mudra and recite:

PHAIM

Light rays radiate from the letter BAM at my heart, exit

between my eyebrows, and invoke all the Tathagatas,
heroes, and yoginis in the ten directions in the aspect of
Vajrayogini.

DZA, HUM, BAM, HO

They are summoned, enter, are bound, and delighted.

Perform the lotus-turning mudra as well as the embracing

mudra and recite:

OM YOGA SHUDDHA SARWA DHARMA YOGA SHUDDHO

HAM

Now contemplate:

I am the nature of the yoga of the perfect purity of all

Phenomena.

And develop divine pride.

If you wish to do the Offerings to the Self-Generation (and you

consecrated them earlier) you can do the Outer, Inner, Secret & Suchness
Offerings here.

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The Ninth Yoga: The Yoga of Verbal and Mental Recitation

At my heart are two intersecting

three-cornered phenomena sources.
Inside, in the center on a moon
mandala, is a letter BAM surrounded by
a red colored mantra rosary going
counter-clockwise that radiates
limitless rays of red light cleansing the
negative karma and obscurations of all
living beings and making offerings to
all the Buddhas. Their blessing, power, and capacity is
summoned in the aspect of red light rays that dissolve into
the mantra rosary [at my heart] blessing my mental
Continuum.

OM OM OM SARWA BUDDHA DAKINIYE VAJRA

WARNANIYE VAJRA VAIROTZANIYE HUM HUM
HUM PHAT PHAT PHAT SOHA

Recite the mantra.

Then recite the hundred-syllable mantra.

Mental Recitation and the Auxiliary Completion

Stage

With all the essential features of physical posture, if you wish to

generate bliss, bring the phenomena source, moon, and letters
from your heart to your secret place and if you wish to generate
the non-conceptual state, bring it down to your navel and then

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conjoin the winds. Except for the front and the back, concentrate
on the joy swirls at the four corners that are spinning counterclockwise.
Focus the mind, and as if reading the letters engage in
three, seven, or more [mental recitations] while holding the
winds in embrace. In particular, once you have focused your
mind on the nada of the letter BAM in the center which is on the
brink of bursting into flames.

Next, from the red and white joy swirls at the upper and lower
openings of the central channel are the size of a grain of barley
and come to the heart while spinning counter-clockwise. They
coalesce, dissipate into emptiness, and you place your mind in
meditative equipoise of bliss and emptiness.

The Tenth Yoga: The Yoga of Inconceivability

Light rays radiate from the BAM and mantra rosary at my

heart and pervade all three realms. The formless realm, in
the aspect of blue light, melts into the upper part of my
body. The form realm, in the aspect of red light, melts
into the middle part of my body. The desire realm, in the
aspect of white light, dissolves into the lower part of my
body. I also sequentially melt into light from above and
below and dissolve into the phenomena source at my
heart. That into the moon, that into the mantra rosary,
that into the letter BAM, that into the head of the BAM,
that into the crescent moon, that into the drop, that into
the nada, more and more subtle transforms into
unobservable emptiness.

Remain in this state for as long as possible.

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The Eleventh Yoga: The Yoga of Daily Actions

From within that state I transform into the body of

Venerable Vajrayogini.

Dedication

By this virtue may I quickly accomplish

The actual Goddess of Dakini Land
And establish every living being
In that state.

When I die may the protector, heroes, heroines and so forth,

Holding flowers, incense, victory-banners
And offering the melodious sound of cymbals, and so forth
Lead me to the abode of the Dakinis.

Colophon: Based on various Sadhanas of Pabhonka Rinpoche, this

sadhana was compiled by Lama Glenn and Jonas Over for the 21-week
teaching series on Vajrayogini and the Six Yogas of Niguma.

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