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yoga-avatāra

Introduction to yoga

    I prostrate before the noble young Manjushri!
    Having listened to the great and vast treatises, one will form a certainty regarding the absolute level, taqobaśa. That possessing faith [person] who has done so [should] be on a soft seat. Possessing wisdom should be diligent in yoga. [There are] many thoughts, such as “Perceiver and perceived,” “duality and nonduality,” “self and others,” “samsara and nirvana.” When constantly discarded, the mind will rest in equilibrium.
    Looking perfectly at everything cognizable as similar to illusion and gandharvas' hail, by vajra and the original wisdom of suchness you will completely destroy the magic wheel of the body. When [you are] completely beautiful in all aspects, [you will abide in] non-conceptuality, free from the parts of beginning and completion. By a thousand rays of pure light, the darkness that is like the sky is definitely purified. Having immersed oneself in the essence of one's own radiance alone, one will see one's own unborn mind. All those who become seeing such will gaze so appropriately. The essence of the mind, together with the absence of contemplation, is clarified as such-and-true edge-completion. Having manifested as a consistent training of this kind, one will acquire the suppression of what is understood as names. On the basis of connection, when there in contact with the true, the five kinds of clairvoyance will be manifested effortlessly.
    The yogin that truly possesses such will realize the limitless goals of beings. A yogin who is completely perfect in this will remain for an extremely long time. The body is indestructible like a vajra. And is not swayed by obscurations, demons-Mara, etc. Fully and constantly possess these yogas of the Paramita of Wisdom. [Then] truly complete the numerous samadhis, such as the treasury of heavenly space, etc.
    Through true connection with the introduction to my yoga alone, gather all virtue.
    May all beings in this very quickly attain the original wisdom of omniscience.
    Thus concludes the introduction to yoga compiled by Acharya Dignaga. Translated and verified: Indian preceptor Dharmashribhadra and translator monk Rinchen Zangpo. It was translated into Russian by Lama Karma Paljor (Filippov O.E.).