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attachment to any experience at all will impede your progress. Pride in success is a great danger,
and the psychic powers that may develop could be used to harm others. For subtle energy yoga to
be effective, it must be united with a correct understanding of reality and love and compassion
for all beings, or you will gain merely momentary blissful experiences with no transformation.
Techniques
“Inner Heat is performed, which binds the subtle
winds, igniting the inner heat which
blazes within the navel cakra.
The practitioner who brings these winds
into the empty central channel mixes together
the Three Worlds. In that very instant,
conceptions and perceptions of self and other,
and similarly of earth, water, wind,
fire, and space, are all not conceived.
You experience bliss.”
- Kambala, The Practice for Generating
Glorious Cakrasamvara
Subtle energy yoga consists of preparatory practices
and main practices. Haṭha yoga, which is a shared
Hindu and Buddhist tradition, consists of preparatory
poses and breathing exercises that purify and prepare
you. The main methods of subtle energy yoga each
have the capacity to transform your subtle body
greatly. In this chapter they are presented as being
performed with a visualized consort only, in
preparation for the practices in Chapter 7: Sexual
Yoga. They are divided into beginning, intermediate,
and advanced practices.
The Sādhana of Secret Vajravilāsinī does not directly
teach any techniques for the stage of subtle energy
yoga. However, since the practitioner is exhorted to
practice all of the Four Yogas in verse 127, it is
explicit that Śabara expects his students to
incorporate subtle energy yoga into the sādhana. This
arrangement gives students the ability to add in the
subtle energy yoga practices according to their level
of development. Most likely, the main practice was
Inner Heat Yoga (Caṇḍālī Yoga Jñānamudrā) for
beginners, and more advanced practices could be added as students progressed. However, Śabara
does teach one technique, the Swing Recitation (Dolā Japa Jñānamudrā), creating a mantra “ring
of fire” between you and your consort, which is a subtle energy yoga method, but he teaches it as
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