Chapter 4: Consecration

4.1“Now I will present the chapter on consecration. The disciple must first recite the mantra for the two-armed form of Mahākāla ten thousand times and then receive initiation. The sage is first consecrated with the vase following the specific set of five consecrations in which they are furnished with a bell and vajra, sprinkled with water, and so forth. The sixth consecration is bestowed according to the vajra stages. The seventh consecration is the specific point at which they unite with an insight consort. The disciple copulates with the yoginīs during the eighth consecration, during the ninth semen is produced, and during the tenth they are consecrated with sky water. Accomplishing the sequence of these eleven consecrations in the correct way will give rise to the respective states. Just like those slain by the tawny-colored one, the sage should secretly maintain this sequential accomplishment of quiescent wisdom using the five ambrosias and the insight consorts. One should perform this practice with a mother, a sister, a woman with deformed legs, a dwarfish woman, or a hunchbacked woman. All these designations should be understood as instructed.

4.2“Once all that is complete, one should approach the eminent master for the appropriate consecration. The guru should examine the disciple and then give it. Then the disciple should say, ‘Master, since you possess the method, and since, Your Eminence, we have acted according to your every word, please teach us the correct path for abandoning the suffering of beings. Blessed One, please grant us the proper understanding of the consecration rite through its specific stages so that it might benefit beings, and so we might have the correct understanding of the time and duration of the rite.’ ”

4.3This is the fourth chapter in The Glorious Sovereign Tantra of Mahākāla, “ Consecration .”