{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/ettt/ettt09.htm","path":"bud/ettt/ettt09.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/ettt/ettt09.htm","text":"Esoteric Teachings of the Tibetan Tantra, by C.A. Mus\u00e9s, [1961]\nWith great respect I bow down to the Lotus-Feet of the revered gurus who are identical with the great Vajra Dhara2.\nI prostrate myself in front of His supreme Body, Mouth and Mind!\nI bow down to my guru and his omnipresent miraculous powers!\nHe who grants all wishes (of ours),\nHe who possesses all the merits and virtues,\nHe who is the mighty master, the embodiment of Vajra Dhara!\nTo him, the mighty lord of eight merits, I render my obeisance,\nGathering all the quintessence of the profound Tantras.\nThe accomplished masters Deropa and Naropa, through their lineage, handed down this teaching!\nIt is known as the Six Yogas of Naropa,\nIt is the teaching heard in all directions!\nFollowing its path, the hard-working and well-gifted disciples\nAre led to the plane of the saviours!\nThrough a careful and continuous study\nOf the teachings by the successive gurus in the lineage,\nI now elucidate for you the way to liberation!\n123:* We have, in the text, allowed the translator's Naropa, frequent Milarepa and Dumo to stand, instead of correcting to N\u0101rop\u0101, Milaraspa and Gtum-mo, since the loose orthography in such instances does no severe violence to the actual pronunciation. Similar instances were treated likewise. Ed.","title":"Esoteric Teachings of the Tibetan Tantra: Part II: The Si...","type":"page"}