Text 11.9 (Commentary)

[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 11.9]

Those essences of attainment, sun and moon-fluids.
Are drawn by the tongue-like vajra into the maṇḍala. [9]

[Tibetan]

sgrub-pa'i nyi-zla snying-po-de /
dkyil-'khor rdo-rje-lce yis blang / [9]

Commentary:

[Concerning the way in which the accomplishment is received:]

Those essences (snying-po-de) which are the sun and moon-fluids (nyi-zla) of the secret centres, (i.e., ovum and sperm) are activated by these four branches of (-'i) ritual service and attainment (sgrub-pa). They are drawn (blang) by the tongue-like (lce-yis) secret vajra (rdo-rje), (i.e., the penis), into the maṇḍala (dkyil-'khor) of the four centres within the energy a a channels. Filled by this movement from below, all centres of the body are permeated and this is determined to be pristine cognition.^[1]

In this context, there are some who hold that once one has become radiant as the deity, (the seminal fluids) are extracted by the tongue, visualised as a vajra, and are then consumed internally. However that is not the case. They do not understand the meaning of the rite of sexual union.^[2]

[v. The fifth, concerning the result of that attainment, (comments on Ch. 11.10):]

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Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Tibetan mas-rim-gyis. On this resultant phase of the experience of the four delights when seminal fluids are drawn upwards through the body, see below. Ch. 13. PP. 1015-1017.

[2]:

I.e. this practice is considered wholly internal. and is not to be confused with the conduct of a student during the secret empowerment (gsang-dbang), on which see above. Ch. 9. pp. 801-803.