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This text is a sādhana, a liturgical manual for deity yoga, focusing on the 'simultaneously arisen and instantaneously produced' aspect of the Kālacakra system. The provided fragments indicate a structure that begins with traditional Sanskrit and Tibetan titles and a devotional homage to the non-dual primordial Buddha. The text then transitions into a detailed visualization process centered on the dissolution of the practitioner's physical form and seat into a series of symbolic elements. This process involves the absorption of the body into the syllable HŪṂ, followed by a sequential dissolution of the vowel components into the crescent moon, the bindu, and finally the nāda. By committing the reader to this precise sequence of mental absorption, the text aims to dismantle ordinary perceptions of materiality and replace them with a refined, symbolic architecture of consciousness, facilitating the transition from the gross physical state to a subtle, non-dual state of realization.
Provenance
About this text
A ritual manual for the Kālacakra system, the Śrīkālacakraṛṭisahajasādhana focuses on the 'simultaneously arisen and instantaneously produced' aspect of the practice. The work is attributed to the Indian author Lalitavajra. It entered the Tibetan tradition through the efforts of the translators Vāgīśvaragupta and lo tsa ba chos rab, and is preserved in the Tengyur, volume པ, where it is situated within the Non-dual Tantra collection. Spanning three pages in this edition, the work enacts a process of spiritual dissolution. Following a devotional homage to the non-dual primordial Buddha, the practitioner is guided through a visualization in which the body and seat dissolve into the syllable HŪṂ. This sequence continues as the vowel components are absorbed into the crescent moon, the bindu, and finally the nāda, leading the practitioner into the clear light. A scholar or serious reader consults this classical Tibetan text to examine the precise symbolic architecture of consciousness and the mental absorption techniques used to dismantle ordinary perceptions of materiality.
Cite thisAnuvāda, “A Sādhana of the Simultaneously Arisen and Instantaneously Produced Glorious Kālacakra” (Toh 1362), machine draft, 2026.https://naxiai.com/tibetan/works/toh1362
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Significance
The work is significant as it represents the complex visualization techniques characteristic of the Kālacakra Tantra, one of the most sophisticated systems in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. For the modern reader, it illustrates the use of seed syllables and internal anatomy as tools for psychological and spiritual transformation.
Structure
Passages
Section
Description
1
Introduction and Homage
Contains the title in Sanskrit and Tibetan and a prostration to the primordial Buddha.
2
Visualization of Dissolution
Describes the process of dissolving the physical body and seat into seed syllables and symbolic elements like the bindu and nāda.
Themes
Non-duality (1)
Symbolic Dissolution (2)
Seed Syllables (2)
Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.
AnuvādaA Sādhana of the Simultaneously Arisen and Instantaneously Produced Glorious Kālacakra·
In the language of India: Śrī-kālacakra-riṭiti-sahaja-sādhanaṃ nāma. In the language of Tibet: dpal dus kyi ’khor lo skad cig gis bskyed pa’i lhan cig skyes pa’i sgrub thabs zhes bya ba. Homage to the body of great bliss!
I prostrate to that non-dual, primordial, supreme Buddha, the Omniscient One, who possesses the three bodies that give birth to the Buddhas, who perfectly knows the three times, and who is embraced by the Blessed Lady, the Wisdom Consort, who is both with and without form, and who is free from birth and destruction and from the states of immutable bliss and so forth.
First, abiding in emptiness for a single instant, and then likewise generated in an instant: the glorious Lord Kālacakra, who dwells upon the maṇḍalas of the variegated lotus, moon, sun, and Rāhu; who stands with right leg extended upon the hearts of Īśvara and Kāmadeva; who is intensely blue and possesses two hands holding a vajra and bell; and who perfectly embraces the body of the Variegated Mother (Viśvamātṛ).
His mass of matted hair is like a dark cloud, adorned with Akṣobhya and the others, and further embellished by the six mudrās. He is bound by a garland of white skulls. The glorious Variegated Mother, who possesses a golden body, three eyes, and a necklace of human heads, holds a curved knife and a lotus vessel in her two hands. One should meditate on her as non-dual with him, the nature of great bliss, and so forth.
Then, the three realms, which are identical to oneself, all without exception dissolve into the bodies of the goddesses.
Furthermore, one's own body together with the seat dissolves into the sun, which is the syllable HŪṂ. The Ū dissolves into the Ha, and that into the head, which is the crescent moon. The crescent moon dissolves into the bindu, and that into the nāda, which is like the breath in the sky or the reflection of a face in a mirror. Having thus entered the clear light (ābhāsvara), one should again recollect the form as it was before. In an instant, one should emanate various emanations that pervade the sky throughout the three realms. In that same way, one should likewise withdraw them, and likewise generate and emanate them. By this path of the union of meditative equipoise, one will truly proceed to the feet of the Buddha. By the merit of whatever has been done in this sādhana of the glorious Kālacakra, may worldly beings also attain the state of the non-dual nature, the innate.
The Sādhana of the glorious Kālacakra called "The Innate" (Sahaja), composed by the master Lalitavajra, is complete. It was translated by the paṇḍita Vāgīśvara and the translator Chos rab.