The lord then said:

“Prāṇa is in the heart, apāna in the anus, Samāna in the navel area, Udāna in the area of the throat, And vyāna in the entire body.

“The most important among them is The prāṇa, located in the heart. Through the cycle of breathing in and out, It sustains the life of all beings.

“With the system of sixteen saṃkrānti, Each breath is one daṇḍa in duration. With the passing of the four maṇḍalas, There are 21,600 breaths.

“Breathing through the right nostril— This is called the maṇḍala of fire. Breathing through the left nostril— This is called the maṇḍala of wind.

“Breathing, equally, through the left and right nostrils— This is the maṇḍala of the earth. That same one, flowing gently, Is the maṇḍala of water.

“Lalanā is the left channel; Rasanā is positioned on the right. Avadhūtī is in the central area— It conducts prāṇa in the moment of innate joy.

“Creation takes place during the surge of energy after inhalation, Concordant with the motionless nature of the resting breath; Destruction takes place when the air has been exhaled. This continues for as long as one is alive.

“When the air enters, this is known as kumbhaka; When it is retained, this is called pūraka. When it is exhaled, this is known as recaka; When there is no movement, this is stambhaka.

“One should take Caṇḍa­mahā­roṣaṇa for the object of one’s absorption And begin the practice with a consort. One should keep track of air as it enters By counting breaths up to one hundred thousand or more.

“One will succeed at that very moment, As Lord Buddha has explained. He who counts the air by its unit, While tightly embracing the wisdom,

“Will succeed within a fortnight, In the form of Caṇḍa­mahā­roṣaṇa. Endowed with divine knowledge, He will acquire the five superknowledges.

“Remaining in the absorption of Caṇḍa­mahā­roṣaṇa And embracing one’s consort tightly, One should press at her heart with one’s heart, And unite one’s secret part with her secret part.

“Uniting the two mouths, Without thoughts and wholly devoted to bliss, One should visualize the moon Together with the sun, in one’s heart.

“Through the force of stability in that alone, A person will become omniscient.

“Merely through bringing on the state of stillness, One will know the past, the future, and the present, And also the thoughts of others. I am telling the truth.

“Similarly, through the same method, One should cultivate the stillness inside the ears. One will be able to hear sounds from every place, As if they were nearby.

“Just so, having empowered the eyes, One will see far into the triple universe. Similarly, by focusing on the nose, One will be able to perceive all smells.

“Focusing, likewise, on the tongue, One will perceive distant tastes; And focusing on the tip of one’s sex organ, One will experience touching every woman.

“By focusing, in the same way, in the center of one’s head, one will increase all one’s abilities.

“Wherever one merges One’s mind with prāṇa And arrests it there, at that very place That same mind will be reflected.

“Pacifying, enriching, and enthralling; Likewise summoning, killing, And expelling—anything at all Will one accomplish through meditation alone.

“One should combine the practice of kumbhaka and so forth With the four gazes: Leftward gaze combined with kumbhaka Should effect enthralling.

“Rightward gaze, known as one that pulls in, Should be combined with pūraka. A gaze that rests on the forehead— The killing one—should be combined with recaka.

“A gaze that rests on the tip of the nose— One that drives the enemies away—is combined with stambhaka. When doing kumbhaka, one gazes at a distant flower; When doing pūraka, one gazes at a bush of common milk hedge.

“When doing recaka, one gazes at a resinous tree; When doing stambhaka, one gazes at swaying grass. One should allow six months for this practice of each In combination with the respective previously described gaze.

“Possessed of all abilities, one will be successful If one can arrest the movements of the mind. By arresting the mind, prāṇa is arrested; And by arresting the prāṇa,

“The mind will become arrested, For their movements are reciprocally related In the single union of wisdom and means, Which is the meeting of the vajra and the lotus.

“Through enjoying the pleasure with one’s mind arrested, One will succeed—a master over suffering. The buddhas, Vajrasattva and so forth, Become helpers of such a mantra adept.

“What need then to mention worldly gods, The celebrated Śiva and so forth. The lord, the Acala of Reality, Is well concealed by me in all the tantras.

“Those who have honored him Have become buddhas, equal to the sky. Those of great magical powers Will be as numerous as the grains of sand in the Ganges.

“This even goes for the buddhas of the present time Endowed with buddha knowledge. Therefore a yogin should always Meditate regularly on Lord Acala.

“He who does not know Acala Will have a fruitless life. For without him, no success, Not even a small one, can be achieved.”