Toh 1276A Sādhana of the Two-Armed Hevajra
Pāli / Sanskrit:Dvibhujahevajrasādhana
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Exposition of the Sadhana of the Two-Armed Hevajra
Context
The Sadhana of the Two-Armed Hevajra, Dvibhujahevajrasadhana, is found in the Kangyur, in the Tantra section of Vajrayana. It is a profound practice instruction intended for practitioners who have received transmission and guidance from a root teacher. Hevajra is an important sacred deity, yidam, in the Tibetan Tantric tradition, especially venerated in the Kagyu and Sakya schools. The form of the Two-Armed Hevajra expresses the concentration of divine power into the true nature of mind, in contrast to more complex many-armed forms.
A sadhana is a genre of Tantric text that describes the direct procedure for meditative accomplishment, sadhana, ཟབ་འབྲིང་, including preliminary practices, visualization, mantra recitation, and the accumulation of merit. This work was composed to transform the practitioner’s mind along the path of awakening through the union of imagination and reality, or inseparability, yuganaddha.
Main Content
The Sadhana of the Two-Armed Hevajra guides the practitioner through the formal stages of practice. First, the practitioner must generate motivation from the bodhisattva mind, praying for the attainment of beings, not merely for personal liberation. Then the practitioner engages in guru yoga, receiving blessings from the transmitting root teacher and the protective deities.
The main stage is visualization, ལེགས་བྱེད།: the practitioner imagines himself or herself transforming into Hevajra, a sacred deity with a dark blue face, two hands holding a skull-cup and a drum, damaru, expressing emptiness, shunyata, and compassion. Details such as color, blue, ornaments of bone, and the surrounding consorts of Dharma, prajna, feminine wisdom, symbolize the exalted and purified elements of the liberated mind.
Next comes the recitation, japa, ཚིག་དོད།, of the Hevajra mantra, a stream of sacred sound that concentrates all the energy of this Dharma method. Through recitation, the practitioner’s mind is purified and transformed.
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