The Ganapati Tantra

ཚོགས་ཀྱི་བདག་པོ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ།

The Ganapati Tantra

ཚོགས་ཀྱི་བདག་པོ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ།

Chapter 12: The Meditation System

EN
Now I will explain further. A meditation system like this has never Appeared before and will not appear again— It is a well-kept secret, and one should practice it.
EN
The nature of yaṃ is emptiness. Hūṁ Arises out of that and its nature is appearance. Ya is the seed syllable of the eight gaṇas, Who are generated from their name mantras.
EN
The wrathful one’s emanations fill the three-thousandfold world. Light rays gather and coalesce in the initial syllable hūṁ. Then, one generates Great Gaṇapati, who Appears for the benefit of beings in his complete
EN
Form as a terrifying great wrathful being With his consort and retinue. One generates the eight nāgas out of eight phuḥ syllables And the wrathful kings are likewise
EN
Generated from the syllable bhai and their names. Draw them in with light rays, and use Jaḥ and jaḥ’s expanding and contracting light rays, Hūṁ and the hūṁ mantra,
EN
And the hook mudrā to draw them in. Have them assume their full power. Perform the offering and the bali offering. Augment their heart mantras with
EN
The mantra baliṃ gṛhṇa kha.

English translation published by 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha (https://84000.co), CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. Translated by Adam C. Krug.

Source