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profound shift in awareness, and it needs to be developed as a continuous practice or you can
lose the connection. In this way, your sitting meditation practice, sexual yoga, and daily conduct
practices merge into each other. The Hevajra Tantra advises, “The yogi must always, day and
night, remain at one with the Essence.” As you maintain the view, you eventually achieve
complete stability. The path remains not an effortful one of creating some new experience, but
the delight of relaxing into and recognizing the glory of what is primordially, eternally you.
As you maintain the view of Mahāmudrā, your thoughts actually begin to dissolve. This does not
usually happen in Tranquility Meditation, which mainly suppresses thoughts, but it can happen
swiftly in Mahāmudrā. Maintaining the view puts you in a thought-free state, purifying your
mind. Tilopa evocatively describes this process of spontaneous liberation, saying “As the snake
uncoils, saṃsāra frees itself.” In addition to the practices for attaining the view, the main
techniques for maintaining the view of Mahāmudrā are: 1) the Fourth Consecration (Caturtha
Abhiṣeka), 2) one-pointed awareness on the true nature of your mind (cittatā), 3) Sky Meditation
(Svarga Samādhi), 4) Vase Breath (Kumbhaka), and 5) Swing Recitation (Dolā Japa).
The Fourth Consecration
During the Fourth Consecration (Caturtha Abhiṣeka), while you are in a state of intense sexual
rapture with your lover, practicing Meditation at the Tip to awaken the latent power of your
genitals, your guru sings you a spontaneous song of nondual realization. The ultimate granter of
realization is the Great Consort Herself, but you must be ripe for it. Ideally, the power of the
fourth consecration is strong enough to shift your awareness by sympathetic vibration
permanently so you can continuously maintain the view of Mahāmudrā.
One-Pointed Awareness on Your Mind’s True Nature
In Mahāmudrā, once you attain orgasm, your one-pointed focus of meditation is on your mind’s
own natural awareness (cittatā), also called the Clear Light Nature of Mind (Prabhāsvara Citta).
Its true nature is primordial and unchanging awareness (bodhi), luminosity or the Clear Light
(Prabhāsvara), and Great Bliss (Mahāsukha). You focus your mind on its own Innate power of
awareness without distraction. Your breathing is normal and uncontrolled. You do not fixate on
thoughts or emotions, or on anything that happens. You do not label your meditative experiences
as “good” or “bad,” as this leads to attachment and aversion, the very obscuring acts from which
you are seeking release. You focus on the quality of the clear awareness of your own mind. As
you attain it, your mind, finally freed into its own natural state, begins to purify itself
automatically.
Saraha advises not meditate in a traditional or formal way, nor even contemplate anything - no
breath control, no visualization, no mantra repetition. Sit and allow your thought and breath to be
stilled, but in a gentle rather than a forceful way. Tilopa’s The Six Words of Advice on
Māhamudrā are similarly simple and straightforward: 1) do not remember (the past), 2) do not
imagine (the future), 3) do not think (about the present), 4) do not make judgements (about
anything), 5) do not meditate (on any outer object), and 6) relax your mind in its own nature.
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