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This document provides an introduction to Kundalini Yoga. It begins with dedications and notes from publishers. It then discusses key concepts in Kundalini Yoga such as the six chakras, arousing the sleeping Kundalini shakti energy, and uniting it with Lord Shiva. It emphasizes the aim of attaining eternal bliss and discusses techniques like pranayama and meditation to realize the self. Overall, the document serves as an overview of the goals and practices of Kundalini Yoga.
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This document provides an introduction to the science of Kundalini Yoga. It discusses Kundalini energy, the six chakras, and the goal of awakening Kundalini through spiritual practices in order to unite it with Shiva at the crown chakra. It emphasizes that true happiness comes from within through controlling the mind, not external things. It outlines various yogic practices and states that while hatha yoga keeps the body healthy, the ultimate aim is samadhi (enlightenment) through meditation and realizing the self.
This document provides an introduction to the science of Kundalini Yoga. It discusses Kundalini energy, which lies dormant at the base of the spine, and the practice of awakening this energy to rise up the central channel (sushumna nadi) through six energy centers (chakras) in the body. The goal is to unite Kundalini with Shiva at the crown chakra, achieving self-realization. It outlines the four stages of sound from the subtlest (para) to the gross (vaikhari). It emphasizes the importance of purification, meditation, and developing dispassion to control the mind and realize eternal bliss within.
This document provides instructions for a practice of Ushnishavijaya with offerings. It begins with taking refuge in the guru and the three jewels. Next is a purification practice involving visualizing Heruka Vajrasattva. Offerings are then blessed and arrangements are made to invite the merit field. Finally, the generation stage is explained, involving visualizing oneself as Ushnishavijaya surrounded by protectors and Buddhas.
This document provides an introduction to Kundalini Yoga. It begins with dedications and notes from publishers. It then discusses key concepts in Kundalini Yoga such as the six chakras, arousing the sleeping Kundalini shakti energy, and uniting it with Lord Shiva. It emphasizes the aim of attaining eternal bliss and discusses techniques like pranayama and meditation to realize the self. Overall, the document serves as an overview of the goals and practices of Kundalini Yoga.
The document contains teachings from Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche on the Tibetan New Year. It includes a request for his students to recognize their inherent connection to him and all beings. It discusses reflecting on impermanence and the Buddhist teachings. It encourages cultivating compassion for all beings.
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1) Kundalini Yoga aims to awaken the dormant Kundalini energy at the base of the spine and raise it through the chakras to unite with Shiva at the crown of the head.
2) The goal of all human action is supreme happiness, which can only be found within oneself. Kundalini Yoga uses techniques to realize the eternal Self.
3) It explains concepts like the chakras, kundalini energy, prana, nadis and provides guidance on meditation and spiritual practices to awaken kundalini shakti.
This document provides an introduction to Kundalini Yoga. It discusses Kundalini energy, which lies dormant at the base of the spine. The goal of Kundalini Yoga is to awaken this energy and move it up the central channel (sushumna nadi) through meditation and practice, piercing the six chakras until reaching the crown chakra, where the individual is united with cosmic consciousness. It outlines some of the key concepts in Kundalini Yoga such as the chakras, kundalini energy, prana, and different states of meditation. The introduction emphasizes that Kundalini Yoga is an exact science that can lead one to
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By: Ajaan Mahā Boowa Ñānasampanno
Translated by: Thānissaro Bhikkhu
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“The Gift of Dhamma Excels All Other Gifts”
—The Lord Buddha
Dhamma should not be sold like goods in the market place.
Permission to reproduce this publication in any way for free distribution,as a gift of Dhamma, is hereby granted and
no further permission need be obtained.
Reproduction in any way for commercial gain is strictly prohibited.
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By: Ajaan Mahā Boowa Ñānasampanno
Translated by: Thānissaro Bhikkhu
This collection of talks was originally given for the benefit of a lay disciple who had come to Ajaan Maha Boowa’s monastery to receive his guidance as she faced her approaching death from bone marrow cancer. These talks offer important lessons about how to learn from pain, illness and death, by seeing through to their ultimate nature and detaching the mind from the suffering associated with them.
“The Gift of Dhamma Excels All Other Gifts”
—The Lord Buddha
Dhamma should not be sold like goods in the market place.
Permission to reproduce this publication in any way for free distribution,as a gift of Dhamma, is hereby granted and
no further permission need be obtained.
Reproduction in any way for commercial gain is strictly prohibited.
This document is an excerpt from the book "Yoga in Daily Life" by Sri Swami Sivananda. It discusses the foundations of yoga practice and provides guidance for implementing bhakti (devotional), karma (selfless service), and jnana (knowledge) yoga in daily life. Some key points include: cultivating willpower and self-control on the spiritual path; finding happiness within rather than from external objects; the importance of a guru; different yogic diets and restrictions; practicing japa (mantra repetition), kirtan (devotional singing), and daily spiritual routines; developing selfless service without attachment to results; and using wisdom and discrimination to attain moksha (liberation
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www.atmayoga.net
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3. Sadhana of Arya Sitatapatra 3
The Sadhana of Arya Sitatapatra
Take this jewel ornamenting the chest,
The stainless white Wisdom Umbrella,
Beautifully turning to the right,
Victorious in the battle over interferences,
Complete with all signs of goodness,
Which bestows the supreme results.
To do the practice of Arya Sitatapatra, first do the practice of ref-
uge and generation of the mind of enlightenment and meditation
on the four immeasurables. These should be done not merely ver-
bally, but completely integrating them with one’s mind.
Refuge and Generating the Mind of Enlightenment
I take refuge until enlightenment
In the holy guru, Buddha, Dharma, and Supreme Assembly.
Through the merit I collect by practicing giving and the other
perfections,
May I attain buddhahood in order to benefit all living beings.
Four Immeasurables
May all living beings be endowed with happiness and the causes of
happiness.
May all living beings be free from suffering and the causes of
suffering.
4. 4 Sadhana of Arya Sitatapatra
May all living beings be endowed with the happiness that is free
from suffering.
May all living beings remain in a state of equanimity, not having at-
tachment for those they hold close, nor aversion for those they
keep at a distance.
Invoking the Merit Field
One instantly becomes Sitatapatra, adorned with the syllable OM
at the heart center, which emanates rays of light, inviting from their
natural abodes one’s guru, inseparable from Arya Sitatapatra, sur-
rounded by the assembly of buddhas and bodhisattvas. They are in
the space in front of oneself.
Think thus.
Seven-Limbed Prayer
I prostrate to the feet of the one renowned as Ushnisha Sitatapa-
tra, undefeatable by others, the most sublime goddess, who took
excellent birth from the ushnisha, the supreme mark of all the
buddhas.
I present offerings both actually arranged and mentally visualized.
I confess all negative actions and downfalls committed since begin-
ningless time.
I rejoice in the virtues [done by myself and others in the three times],
Request [you to turn the wheel of Dharma],
And to remain until samsara is empty.
I dedicate all the merits I have accumulated by this and other whole-
some actions for the attainment of the great enlightenment.
Thus offer the seven limbs. Then visualize that the members of
the field of merit return to their own places.
5. Sadhana of Arya Sitatapatra 5
Self-Generation
OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHA SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA
SHUDDHO HAM
Thus dissolving into emptiness.
Everything becomes empty. Out of emptiness from the syllable PAM
comes a lotus, and from RAM a sun disc, on top of which is one’s
own consciousness in the form of the syllable OM. This turns into
a white umbrella with the top marked with the syllable OM, which
emanates rays of light, fulfilling the two purposes.
The lights collect back and oneself transforms into the venerable
Lady Sitatapatra, with vajra ushnisha, the great reverter of all evils,
with thousands of manifested heads and arms, and hundreds of
opened eyes, adorned with indomitable blazing marks and signs,
having great and vast vajra power ruling over the mandalas of the
three worlds, with white body and 200 main faces, white in colour,
with elegant and brave expressions.
The 200 faces to the right – yellow in colour, have fearful and laugh-
ing expressions. The 200 faces in the back – red in colour, have ex-
pressions of reproach and fury. The 200 faces to the left – green in
colour, have compassionate and peaceful expressions, and the 200
faces on top – blue in color, have expressions of wonder and wrath.
Each face has three eyes and each head is adorned with blazing,
wrathful vajras. On top of each head are the seven relics [of the lin-
eage gurus] and the ten tathagatas. Thus She is crowned with seven
million perfect Enlightenment Beings.
The first right and left hands are in the gesture of giving protec-
tion, holding a wheel and holding the handle of the white umbrella
along which is an arrow at the chest. The remaining 99 arms to the
6. 6 Sadhana of Arya Sitatapatra
right and left hold a wheel in the right and an arrow in the left. The
next hundred arms to the right hold vajras, the next hundred hold
jewels, the next hundred hold lotuses, and the last hundred hold
vishvavajras.
Of the rest of the 400 arms to the left the first hundred hold bows,
the next hundred hold swords, the next hundred hold lassos and the
last hundred hold hooks. She is adorned with a variety of jeweled
ornaments with beautiful silken garments for the upper and lower
parts of the body.
The right 500 legs are stretched out, trampling on all dangers such
as punishment by kings. The left 500 legs on the left are bent, de-
stroying all evils such as those beings who rob the bodily radiance of
living beings. On all parts of the body are hundreds of thousands of
eyes which look sideways or are opened widely, flashing like light-
ning, or glaring wrathfully.
Endowed with the nine postures of dance, from all the pores of the
body emanate light like the vajra fire at the end of existence, the
flames of which completely fill the mandalas of the three worlds,
thereby protecting all living beings from all fears. [Oneself as Sitata-
patra is] adorned with a white OM at the crown, a red AH at the
throat and a blue HUM at the heart. The blue HUM is adorned with
a white syllable OM which emanates rays of light, inviting identical
wisdom beings from their natural abodes.
Offerings to the Wisdom Beings
OM ARGHAM PRATICCHA SVAHA
OM PADYAM PRATICCHA SVAHA
OM PUSHPE PRATICCHA SVAHA
OM DHUPE PRATICCHA SVAHA
OM ALOKE PRATICCHA SVAHA
OM GANDHE PRATICCHA SVAHA
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OM NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA SVAHA
OM SHAPTA PRATICCHA SVAHA
JAH HUM BAM HO
The wisdom beings and commitment beings become non-dual.
Again light rays emanate from the HUM at the heart, inviting initiat-
ing deities and requesting all tathagatas to confer the initiation.
“Please bestow the initiation.”
Thus requesting.
OM SARVA TATHAGATA ABHISHEKATA SAMAYA SHRIYE HUM
Saying this, the initiation is bestowed with the water of the vase.
One’s body is filled; the stains are purified. The excess of water
comes out of the opening at the crown and transforms into Buddha
Vairochana.
Blessing the Offerings for the Self-Generation
Then the offerings should be blessed according the Kriya tantra
tradition:
OM VAJRA AMRITA KUNDALI HANA HANA HUM PHAT
OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHA SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA
SHUDDHO HAM
Everything is emptiness. Out of emptiness in front of oneself ap-
pears the syllable OM which transforms into eight spacious jeweled
vessels. In each of those vessels appears the syllable OM, which
transforms into godly substances: water for the mouth, water for
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the feet, flowers, incense, and so forth, clear, unobstructed, and as
extensive as space.
OM ARGHAM AH HUM
OM PADYAM AH HUM
OM PUSHPE AH HUM
OM DHUPE AH HUM
OM ALOKE AH HUM
OM GANDHE AH HUM
OM NAIVIDYA AH HUM
OM SHAPTA AH HUM
Presenting the Offerings
OM USHNISHASITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA ARGHAM
PRATICCHA SVAHA
OM USHNISHASITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA PADYAM PRATICCHA
SVAHA
OM USHNISHASITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA PUSPE PRATICCHA
SVAHA
OM USHNISHASITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA DHUPE PRATICCHA
SVAHA
OM USHNISHASITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA ALOKE PRATICCHA
SVAHA
OM USHNISHASITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA GANDHE
PRATICCHA SVAHA
OM USHNISHASITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA NAIVIDYA
PRATICCHA SVAHA
OM USHNISHASITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA SHAPTA PRATICCHA
SVAHA
Thus make offerings.
9. Sadhana of Arya Sitatapatra 9
Praises
I prostrate and make praises to Sitatapatra,
Symbol of great bliss,
Born from the ushnisha of the buddhas out of their compassion,
The one who destroys all interference to the teachings,
Thereby bestowing happiness and good results.
Then:
Mantra Recitation
At one’s heart center on a moon disc is the syllable OM surrounded
by the mantra syllables which emanate rays of light, purifying all ill-
nesses, evils and interferences, obtaining all the attainments of the
body, speech and mind of the Bhagavati.
Thus do the visualization without the mind being distracted and
recite:
TADYATHA OM ANALE ANALE KHASAME KHASAME BHAIRE
BHAIRE SAUME SAUME SARVA BUDDHA ADHISHTHANA
ADHISHTHITE SVAHA
and
OM SARVA TATHAGATOSHNISHA SITATAPATRE HUM PHAT HUM
MAMA HUM NI SVAHA
Recite as many times as possible. Recite any number of times.
During retreat, when finished with the desired number of recita-
tions, if one wishes to recite the action mantra, then:
Visualise that from the body of oneself as the deity Sitatapatra ema-
nate countless male and female deities, holding a variety of weap-
10. 10 Sadhana of Arya Sitatapatra
ons, and cut off the lassos of the mantras of the enemies. Both those
who have prepared the mantras and those who are reciting the
mantras are struck down with daggers and are suppressed.
Then recite the long mantra:
OM AH SITANALARKA PRABHA PUTA BIKA SITATAPATRE
OM JOLA JOLA KANDA KANDA HANA HANA DAHA DAHA
DARA DARA BIDARA BIDARA CHINDA CHINDA
BINDA BINDA HUM HUM PHAT SVAHA
And then recite the 100-syllable mantra:
OM PADMASATTVA SAMAYAM ANUPALAYA PADMASATTVA
TVENOPATISHTHA DRIDHO ME BHAVA SUTOSHYO ME BHAVA
SUPOSHYO ME BHAVA ANURAKTO ME BHAVA SARVA
SIDDHIM ME PRAYACCHA SARVA KARMASUCHA ME CHITTAM
SHRIYAM KURU HUM HA HA HA HA HO BHAGAVAN SARVA
TATHAGATA PADMA MA ME MUNCHA PADMA BHAVA MAHA
SAMAYA SATTVA AH HUM PHAT
The wisdom beings of the self-generation depart and dwell in the
space above.
Then, like before, one performs the offerings and praises to the
Lady Sitatapatra.
Offerings
OM USHNISHA SITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA ARGHAM
PRATICCHA SVAHA
OM USHNISHA SITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA PADYAM
PRATICCHA SVAHA
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OM USHNISHA SITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA PUSHPE PRATICCHA
SVAHA
OM USHNISHA SITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA DHUPE PRATICCHA
SVAHA
OM USHNISHA SITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA ALOKE PRATICCHA
SVAHA
OM USHNISHA SITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA GANDHE
PRATICCHA SVAHA
OM USHNISHA SITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA NAIVIDYA
PRATICCHA SVAHA
OM USHNISHA SITATAPATRE SAPARIVARA SHAPTA PRATICCHA
SVAHA
Praises
I prostrate and make praises to Sitatapatra,
Symbol of great bliss,
Born from the ushnisha of the buddhas out of their compassion,
The one who destroys all interferences to the teachings,
Thereby bestowing happiness and good results.
Prayers of Request
O Bhagavati Sitatapatra,
Please pacify all illnesses evils and interferences
Of myself and all others,
And bestow all attainments.
Thus make the requests for one’s purposes. Then:
Whatever mistakes I have made
Because of the mind being under the influence of ignorance,
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Since you are the object of refuge of all, O Bhagavati,
Forgive all of these mistakes.
Thus asking for forgiveness of all mistakes.
The wisdom beings depart to their own places. Oneself remains with
the pride of being the commitment being.
Then recite prayers of dedication and auspiciousness and medi-
tate on emptiness.
Dedication
By the virtues collected through this practice,
May I attain the state of Arya Sitatapatra
And lead all beings, without exception, to the state of
enlightenment.
Prayer of Auspiciousness
May there be the auspiciousness of the root and lineage gurus.
May there be the auspiciousness of the yidams and assembly of
deities.
May there be the auspiciousness of the viras and dakinis.
May there be the auspiciousness of the Dharma protectors.
13. Sadhana of Arya Sitatapatra 13
Colophon
The sadhana of the Lady Sitatapatra, the bestower of the precious jewel, was
requested by Shabdrung Losang Evam of Dorig Thuwang as a concise daily prac-
tice, and was written by Ngawang Tänpa Gyältsän, who calls himself the very low
quality crown holder of the Yellow sect. Translator unknown. Lightly edited and
reformatted by Kendall Magnussen, FPMT Education Services, July 2003.
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