Checking meditation on this generation > Checking meditation on the gross parts of our body as Heruka's mandala

Question 1

Two legs forming the shape of a bow:

Answer 1

transformed into: the letter YAM, the seed of the wind mandala.

Question 2

the triangle at our secret place

Answer 2

transformed into: the letter RAM, the seed of the fire mandala

Question 3

our round belly

Answer 3

transformed into: the letter BAM, the seed of the water mandala.

Question 4

our square chest

Answer 4

transformed into: the letter LAM, the seed of the earth mandala

Question 5

our spine

Answer 5

transformed into: the letter SUM, the seed of the divine mountain, Mount Meru

Question 6

the thirty two channels at our crown

Answer 6

transformed into: the letter PAM, the seed of the divine lotus

Question 7

the trunk of our body

Answer 7

transformed into: the letter DHRUM, the seed of the celestial mansion.

Question 8

Explain:

Answer 8

These seven letters, in nature Heruka’s omniscient wisdom, transformed one on top of the other into the various mandalas and celestial mansion.

Beyond these is the protection circle surrounded by the eight charnel grounds.

Question 9

Celestial mansion of body mandala and basis Heruka:

Answer 9

While generating the celestial mansion of the body mandala, we imagined that the celestial mansion of the outer mandala (the mandala of basis Heruka) dissolved into it.

The protection circle and the charnel grounds, however, remained as before for they are the same for both the outer mandala and the body mandala.

Although the celestial mansion of the body mandala is different in nature to that of the outer mandala, it is exactly the same in aspect.