Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)
This fragmentary text, titled Personal Instructions on Stabilizing the Channels and Drops of the Body, provides technical guidance on the physiological aspects of tantric practice. By focusing on the equalization of the channels (nadi) and drops (bindu), the work aims to prepare the practitioner's subtle body for advanced meditative states. The text begins with a formal invocation to the deity Hevajra, situating the instructions within the Hevajra tantra tradition. It employs a metaphor comparing the subtle body's internal structures to roots and a trunk, suggesting that the stabilization of these energetic pathways is a prerequisite for further spiritual progress. The reader is committed to a rigorous discipline of internal energetic manipulation, where the physical body is treated as the primary laboratory for achieving non-dual awareness through the balancing of internal winds and essences.
Provenance
About this text
A work of instruction concerning the equalization of the channels and drops of the body, the Śarīraṇādikābindusamatāmnāya belongs to the General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works. It is attributed to the Indian author Nirguṇa. Preserved in the classical Tibetan tradition, the text appears in the Tengyur, volume ཟི, where it comprises two pages under the Tibetan title lus kyi rtsa thig mnyam pa nyid kyi man ngag. The work enacts a technical focus on the subtle body, beginning with an invocation to Hevajra and employing metaphors of roots and trunks to describe the necessity of stabilizing internal energetic pathways. A scholar or serious reader consults this text today to examine the specific physiological requirements of tantric practice, specifically the balancing of channels and drops as a prerequisite for spiritual progress.
Cite thisAnuvāda, “Personal Instructions on Stabilizing the Channels and Drops of the Body” (Toh 2410), machine draft, 2026.https://naxiai.com/tibetan/works/toh2410
Summary & commentary
Significance
The work is significant for its focus on the intersection of somatic engineering and spiritual realization within the Indo-Tibetan tradition. It illustrates the technical precision required in the Hevajra cycle to manipulate the subtle body. For the modern reader, it provides insight into the pre-modern Buddhist understanding of the relationship between physiology and consciousness.
Structure
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Description
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Introduction
Contains the Sanskrit and Tibetan titles, a devotional homage to Hevajra, and the beginning of a metaphorical explanation regarding the body's subtle structures.
Themes
Subtle Body Physiology (1)
Hevajra Tantra (1)
Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.
AnuvādaPersonal Instructions on Stabilizing the Channels and Drops of the Body·
In the language of India: Śarīra-nāḍī-samatā-upadeśa-nāma. In the language of Tibet: Lus kyi rtsa thig mnyam pa nyid kyi man ngag ces bya ba (The Pith Instruction on the Equalization of the Channels and Drops of the Body). Homage to the glorious Hevajra!
As long as the roots and the trunk have not been dug out, the hunter of the wild boar who kills it is one who suffers from the heat. By striking the vital point, the wild boar is killed; before the pond has dried up, it is destroyed. In a square pond measuring three and a half leagues, having entered within, one seeks food. Having filled it completely, by striking the vital point, the wild boar is killed; before the pond has dried up, it is destroyed.
The navel maṇḍala is made into a bow, and the two channels are strung as the bowstring. The guru’s pith instruction is made into the arrow. Having drawn it back fully, by striking the vital point, the wild boar is killed; before the pond has dried up, it is destroyed. Just as a wild boar drinks from a lake, having set a snare at a narrow pass, by striking the vital point, the wild boar is killed; as long as the pond has not dried up, it is destroyed before that.
The Pith Instruction on the Equalization of the Channels and Drops of the Body, composed by the master Kuni, is complete.
Translation status: Not among 84000's published translations, and not in progress there. Translations published elsewhere have not been searched for, so one may exist. (source: 84000 catalogue + registry; checked 2026-11-10).
Set in Newsreader and EB Garamond; Tibetan in Noto Serif Tibetan; Chinese in Noto Serif SC.