<p>A scholar whose work in Yogashastra became an encyclopedia for people having faith in Yoga. </p>

Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj 

<img width="746" height="328" src="https://i1.himalayas.life/c/u/f67894297b6134a6b759b3a9ec15b6cb/2021/06/08064007/The-Vajrakilaya-Mantra-Banner-e1623134596153-750x330.jpeg" alt="The Vajrakilaya Mantra Banner"><div dir="ltr"> <a rel="tag" title="Vajrakilaya or Vajrakumara — the wrathful heruka Vajrakilaya is the yidam deity who embodies the enlightened activity of all the buddhas and whose practice is famous for being the most powerful for removing obstacles, destroying the forces hostile to compassion and purifying the spiritual pollution so prevalent in this age. Vajrakilaya is one of the eight deities of Kagyé." href="https://mandalas.life/tag/vajrakilaya/" dir="ltr">Vajrakilaya</a> (Dorje Phurpa), also known as Vajrakumara (Dorje Zhonu, Youthful <a rel="tag" title="Vajra is a ritual scepter symbolizing compassion and skillful means, and also a symbol of indestructibility. In tantric rituals, the vajra is the necessary counterpart of the bell, which symbolizes the wisdom of emptiness.
Vajra and bell are a set where both have the same number of spokes. Their number varies from one to one thousand, yet the most commonly known are the five-spoked ones called " samaya="" vajra="" and="" bell"="" the="" nine="" spoked="" called="" "wisdom="" bells".="" size="" of="" can="" vary="" from="" 4="" inches="" to="" twenty,="" bell="" should="" be="" in="" proportion."="" href="https://mandalas.life/tag/vajra/" dir="ltr">Vajra</a>), is a wrathful <a rel="tag" title="Heruka, is the name of a category of wrathful deities, enlightened beings in Vajrayana Buddhism that adopt a fierce countenance to benefit sentient beings. In East Asia, these are called Wisdom Kings." href="https://mandalas.life/tag/heruka/" dir="ltr">Heruka</a> <a rel="tag" title="In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the supreme being, creator deity, and principal object of faith. God is usually conceived as being omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), omnipresent (all-present) and as having an eternal and necessary existence. These attributes are used either in way of analogy or are taken literally. God is most often held to be incorporeal (immaterial). Incorporeality and corporeality of God are related to conceptions of transcendence and immanence of God, with positions of synthesis such as the " immanent="" transcendence"."="" href="https://mandalas.life/tag/god/" dir="ltr">god</a> who represents all the <a rel="tag" title="Buddha is Enlighted one. Life of Buddha begins in Lumbini, Nepal, about 2,600 years ago, where the man Siddharta Gautama was born. Buddha is the founder of Buddhism." href="https://mandalas.life/tag/buddha/" dir="ltr">Buddhas</a>’ <a rel="tag" title="Enlightened are those nlightenedhaving or showing a rational, modern, and well-informed outlook." href="https://mandalas.life/tag/enlightened/" dir="ltr">enlightened</a> action. Vajrakilaya is one of the <a rel="tag" title="The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. " nyingma"="" literally="" means="" "ancient,"="" and="" is="" often="" referred="" to="" as="" ngangyur="" because="" it="" founded="" on="" the="" first="" translations="" of="" buddhist="" scriptures="" from="" sanskrit="" into="" old="" tibetan="" in="" eighth="" century.="" alphabet="" grammar="" was="" created="" for="" this="" endeavour."="" href="https://mandalas.life/tag/nyingma/" dir="ltr">Nyingma</a> <a rel="tag" title="Tantra, a belief system which originated in India, practiced by a small number of Hindus and Buddhists. Tantra has become a synonym in the West for unbridled sexuality; however, sexuality per se is only one facet of this elaborate spiritual practice, as a representation of the union of the soul with the Goddess. Rather, this attitude reflects the spiritual vacuum of mainstream Western religions when it comes to sacred sexuality. A deep study of Tantra can take a lifetime, and is not for the undisciplined or the thrill-seeker." href="https://mandalas.life/tag/tantra/" dir="ltr">tantras</a>’ eight Heruka deities. <a rel="tag" title="Guru is the religious teacher or preceptor in South Asia. For Vajrayana Buddhism, the term is specifically used for a Tantric teacher. The titles of Acharya or kalyanamitra are used for Sutrayana, or ordinary, religious teachers. 

" href="https://mandalas.life/tag/guru/" dir="ltr">Guru</a> <a rel="tag" title="Padmasambhava (Tib.: Guru Rinpoche) is the Indian founder of Tantric Buddhism in Tibet. In the 11th century with the rise of the Revealed Treasure tradition (Tib.: terma) the worship of Padmasambhava took on cult status. Hundreds of new deity forms of Padmasambhava were created representing all aspects of iconography and Tantric activity; peaceful, wrathful, male, female, wealth, power, healing, etc." href="https://mandalas.life/tag/padmasambhava/" dir="ltr">Padmasambhava</a>’s personal meditational deity is Vajrakilaya. When several hurdles appeared in his path, he engaged in <a rel="tag" title="Meditation can be defined as a practice where an individual uses a technique, such as focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity, to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state. Meditation has been practiced since antiquity in numerous religious traditions and beliefs." href="https://mandalas.life/tag/meditation/" dir="ltr">meditation</a> on Vajrakilaya. Who is Vajrakilaya? Vajrakilaya is the Buddha <a rel="tag" title="Vajrasattva is a bodhisattva in the Mahayana, Mantrayana/Vajrayana Buddhist traditions. In the Japanese Vajrayana school of Buddhism, Shingon, Vajrasattva is the esoteric aspect of the bodhisattva Samantabhadra and is commonly associated with the student practitioner who through the master's teachings, attains an ever-enriching subtle and rarefied grounding in their esoteric practice. In Tibetan Buddhism Vajrasattva is associated with the sambhogakāya and purification practice." href="https://mandalas.life/tag/vajrasattva/" dir="ltr">Vajrasattva</a>’s wrathful form. He is distinguished by the fact that he wields the phurba&nbsp;.</div>

Gopinath Kaviraj was a Sanskrit-Tantra scholar, Indologist and philosopher. First appointed in 1914 a librarian, he was the Principal of Government Sanskrit…

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