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Four An<strong>and</strong>as Four Sunyatas Four<br />

Cakras<br />

ANANDA<br />

(bliss)<br />

PARAMANANDA<br />

(transcendental bliss)<br />

VIRAMANANDA<br />

(wonderful bliss)<br />

SAHAJANANDA<br />

(simultaneously-born<br />

bliss)<br />

SUNYATA<br />

(voidness)<br />

ATISUNYATA<br />

(vast voidness)<br />

MAHASUNYATA<br />

(great voidness)<br />

SARVASUNYATA<br />

(all voidness<br />

simultaneously<br />

wisdom)<br />

FROM<br />

HEAD TO<br />

THROAT<br />

FROM<br />

THROAT<br />

TO<br />

HEART<br />

FROM<br />

HEART<br />

TO<br />

NAVEL<br />

FROM<br />

NAVEL<br />

TO<br />

REPRO-<br />

DUCTIVE<br />

ORGANS<br />

Four Moments<br />

of Feeling<br />

VICITRA<br />

(stimulus)<br />

VIPAKSA<br />

(elaborated<br />

reflex)<br />

VIMARDA<br />

(final)<br />

response)<br />

VILAKSANA<br />

(after<br />

consummation<br />

with awareness<br />

of all<br />

potentialities)<br />

1. Why is the Heruka-Form Used?<br />

The reasons for this are written in detail in Professor<br />

Guenther's book, The Tantric View of Life. Here we<br />

shall confine ourselves to some simple reasons.<br />

Principally, the answer to our question is that inwardly,<br />

the female energy is the expedient force, while the<br />

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