The preliminary explanation > The benefits of practitsing these instructions

Question 1

1. What benefits do we experience related to the Heroes and Heroines?

Answer 1

The Heroes and Heroines residing in the twenty-four places such as Puliramalaya and Dzalandhara enter into the bodies of sincere practitioners blessing their channels, drops and winds, and causing them to gain realizations of spontaneous great bliss.

Question 2

2. What benefits do we experience just by seeing, hearing or being touched by, or by being in the presence of a sincere Heruka practitioner?

Answer 2

By seeing - we purify our negativities and attain liberation.

By hearing or being touched - we receive blessings and are cured of sickness.

By being in the presence of such a practitioner our unhappiness, mental disturbances, delusions and other obstacles are dispelled.

Question 3

2. Why do we experience these benefits?

Answer 3

It is because the actual Deities of Heruka abide within the body of the practitioner and therefore seeing the practitioner is not so different from seeing Heruka himself.

Question 4

3. Receiving blessings in degenerate times

Answer 4

As times become spiritually more degenerate, it is easier to receive the blessings of Heruka;

As the number of Gurus in the lineage increases, we receive attainments more quickly.

Question 5

4. Complete the verse:

As times become ever more impure

Answer 5

As times become ever more impure,
Your power and blessings ever increase,
And you care for us quickly, as swift as thought;
O Chakrasambara Father and Mother, to you I prostrate.

Question 6

5. What happens as times become more impure?

Answer 6

• Heruka’s blessings become more powerful and we receive them more easily
• the greater the number of Gurus in the lineage, the more swiftly we receive attainments