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Dream Yoga – Svapna Yoga
Go to sleep knowing you are the deity. Before you sleep, meditate at your throat cakra and pray
to the celestial yoginīs to come to you and make love with you in your sleep, and help bring you
to enlightenment. Ask them to help you be fully conscious in your dreams, and act as the deity,
helping others with your wisdom and compassion, always avoiding attachment and aversion.
When you arise in the morning, know you are the deity. Experience all appearances as empty of
self-nature like a dream.
Exercises
During your weekly practice sessions, keep your mind strongly focused and in meditative
absorption. Eventually the whole visualization will come to you strongly in an instant. Practice
the mantra recitations with strong devotion. Because the sādhana is long, you can use a concise
version given below to give yourself time for accumulating the required mantra repetitions. After
a few months, you will be ready to add subtle energy yoga into your sessions.
Benefits: Empowers you with the qualities of the deity, purifies coarse karmic obscurations.
Time: 2 hours.
Suggested Items
A mālā
Deity image (pratimā)
Initial Practices – Sevā
1. Recite the Refuge Vow.
buddham śaraṇam gacchāmi
dharmam śaraṇam gacchāmi
saṅgham śaraṇam gacchāmi
“I go for refuge to the Buddha.”
“I go for refuge to the Dharma.”
“I go for refuge to the Saṅgha.”
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