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śrī-vajra-yoginī-kāntagupta-homa-vidhi-nāma

Ritual of concealed burning of gifts received from Vajrayogini

     I prostrate before the glorious Vajrayogini!
     First, anyone manifesting as the glorious Vajrayogini should perform the act of burning gifts for the sake of acquiring the actual attainments-siddhi of the collection of worldly and surpassing worldly deeds. The mantrik that desires this should make up the place for burning in the form of a triangle. One should dig a base divided according to the boundaries, [making] together with an elevation. Decorate equally with a commensurate red lotus, etc. Consistently looking to the west, etc., sit in the right way. After making offerings of the five kinds of offerings, place the burnt wood in the hearth for burning. Meditate on the red fire deity arising from the seed of the syllable raṁ. Take a ball, a bowl of water, the gift of fearlessness, a staff, and a rosary.
     Then, having realized the introduction of jñānasattva, etc., make offerings while meditating on the syllable raṁ on the tip of the tongue. Then [take] substances such as the five nectars, etc., and worldly substances.
     oṁ agnaye svāhā
     When you perform the burning with such a mantra, by means of the essence of that mantra, perform the burning of the [contents of] the filled spoon as well.
     Then in the midst of the fire of the essence of the primordial wisdom of the supreme reality-self, visualize the remnants of the mandala chakra. When you have made the offerings, etc., perform the burning of the substance gifts of the five nectars, etc., with the individual mantras of the surroundings and the main [deity].
     For pacification, the substance of butter, etc. For increase, the substance of sweets. For subduing, use sweets and salt. Hot, etc. are used for destruction. For pacification - white form. For magnification - meditate on the yellow one. For subjugation - speak of the red one. For destruction, the black form is universally known.
     When you attain actual attainment-siddhi, meditate on the red. If you do so, bring the chakra of destruction into your own body. Having done so, bring up the torma. When successively in the accumulation chakra you make offerings that surpass the mundane, receive the actual attainment-siddhis desired by yourself.
     This burning of gifts is not shown [to others]. Having realized binding to it through special diligence, [everything] there will appear as valid attainment-siddhis. There is no fate for siddhis [ that are attained] in other [methods]. Through the desire for Mahamudra and so forth, by means of true faith, one will realize the binding to the mantra that is like a wish-fulfillment jewel and make the level of faith stable.
     This is how the secret burning ritual is completed through the vision of the glorious Vajrayogini. It was composed by the acharya Kongka Jin.
     Translated by Pandita Dhapalahau and the translator Ri Rinchen Dragpa.
     Translated by Lama Karma Paljor (O.E. Filippov).