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kūrmapūda-upadeśa-nāma-vārāhī-manaḥ-sādhana

Instructions on Kurmapada. Practice of Vajravarahi's Mind

    I prostrate before the saint Vajravarahi!
    One who wishes to practice these precepts about the yellow saint should proceed as follows.
    First [be] in front of the saint's fully concealed self-drawn body. Set up a good earthen vessel. It is very important here to use one incense with great meat.
    Then think, “I for the sake of all sentient beings will carry out the practice of this saint.” When you think this way, come to the Refuge, repent of harmful things, and carry out other actions. After that, look with your eyes at the image and concentrate your mind on it without any distraction and meditate in this way.
    Then, if the eyes need rest, cover the eyes and meditate with the mind unidirectionally on the object for the mind, the only image that is painted on the canvas.
    That which abides there is Kurmapada. Because it is like a bird abiding on a tortoise, there is also the leg of the tortoise as characteristics. In Sanskrit it is called Kurmapada.
    If you do not abide in a special way in the two existing ones, such as mind and image in meditation of this kind, then adhering to concentration, also [imagine] that in your navel center you have a white lotus with four petals. In the middle of it on top of the eight-petaled multicolored lotus is a black Bhairava. With one face and two hands. Single like a descending tube. Holds a severing knife and a kapala. Possesses a tiger skin skirt and bone jewelry. A yellow colored saint stands on a spread carpet of raw human skin taken from above. With one countenance and two arms, the right arm stretches downward, holding in her hand a severing knife. The left holds a mouthpiece at the heart. Yellow hair falls downward. Wears a garland of fresh human heads. Both feet stand on the mouth. Possesses five seals-mudras. Meditate that she is alone in the blazing like fire of the age rays of light.
    Meditate in this way, manifest the birth of primordial wisdom. Having realized the cessation of fierce consciousness, hesitation, terror, thoughts of external things, there will be misunderstanding of hesitation. If this arises, meditate harmoniously. Massage the body. Relax the mind. Carry out recitation repeatedly.
    This is the method for realizing recitation. When you conceive the Holy One as explained above, on the basis of a steady mind, [say:]
    oṁ vajra vairovanīye hūṁ phaṭ svā phaṭ
    So recite like that.
    Having completed recitation of this kind of recitation, put up the torma. When you have set the torma inside a piece of a man's skull or some other acceptable [vessel], bless with three syllables. Having proclaimed three or seven times for the heart, contemplating the holy one before you, think of a request to that holy one before you. Fulfill the prayer for the desired goals. Saying one hundred syllables, ask for patience and contrition for excess or lack.
    Meditating in this way, attain the siddhi of the supreme Great Seal as the essence of this important [action].
    Thus concludes the practice of the mind of Vajravaraha, the precepts of the Kurmapada.
    Translated by the translator from Chal Chhkyi Zangpo on the basis of the precepts of Pandita Aanadacara.
    Translated by Karma Paljor (O.E. Filippov).