Great-Bliss-Tantric-Sex-and-the-Path-to-Inner-Awakening

Massaging Your Consort
Massaging (aṅgamardana) your physical consort with fragrant massage oil, you recite the
dhāraṇī mantra of the deity. Your consort then massages you. This ritual transforms massage, an
important practice for preparing the body for the bliss of enlightenment, into a sacred activity.
Sacred Outlook
You see all appearances as emanations of the deity, all sounds as its mantra, and all thoughts as
its mind. You continually re-create circumstances that you would have seen as impure, and
through your practice of sacred outlook (deva dṛiṣṭi), you see everything as pure. Serenely
perfect, you move in every moment like you are a work of art in motion. Joy, wonder, and awe
arise within you. Whatever you do, you train yourself to meditate on your actions as activities of
buddhahood.
The Yoga of Passion
As the deity, you make love to your own physical consort. The Yoga of Passion (Rāga Yoga) is
not considered sexual yoga, because it assumes you have not yet learned its techniques, or that
you are practicing with a consort who does not know sexual yoga, but it is sex performed in a
sacred context. This practice prepares you for the Completion Stage practices of sexual yoga.
Dream Yoga
You maintain your awareness as the deity as you go to sleep, uniting the consciousness of the
deity with your sleeping consciousness through dream yoga (svapna yoga). As you awake, you
focus immediately on yourself as the deity so that deity yoga becomes an uninterrupted practice
of absorbing the enlightened qualities of the deity. Dream yoga enhances the power of deity
yoga, purifies your throat cakra, liberates you from suffering in the dream state, strengthens your
ability to die consciously, and prepares you for enlightenment.
Results
“In this beautiful world, you and I play together filled with erotic delight.”
- Hevajra Tantra
Through deity yoga, you are purified of your coarse karmic stains. Your body and speech are
clearer. Your mind is infused with the mind of the deity, you honor yourself with divine pride,
and abandon the ego pride that can never bring you lasting happiness. Your whole being is
imprinted, repatterned and organized around enlightenment. You put in place a new blueprint for
your life of perfection, peace and bliss. As you abandon ordinary appearances, your world is
magically transformed into the sacred maṇḍala of the deity. You see all beings as gods and
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