Blissful Harmony (The Stepping Stone to Enlightenment)

This powerful painting depicts the one-faced two-armed form of the tantric archetype deity Paramsukha (Supreme Bliss) Chakrasamvara (Wheel Integration). He is the principal deity of the tantras known as 'Mother Tantras.' The Mother Tantras emphasize wisdom - particularly the indivisibility of bliss and emptiness. They are eminently suited to those of passionate temperament, providing methods of liberating the energy tied up in greed and attachment and diverting it to the pursuit of enlightenment.

Here we see the blue-black Chakrasamvara standing in the dynamic pratyalidha posture - with his left knee bent and the right leg extended. He is surrounded by the flaming aura of his own radiant wisdom and engaged in exquisite union with his female aspect Vajravarahi, symbolizing the blissful harmony of wisdom and compassion, which is the stepping stone to enlightenment. His face is highly intense and his mouth wide open, exposing his fangs which grind up our false illusions nurtured by the ego. The third eye that is capable of viewing the 'ultimate reality' is positioned vertically between his brows. He wears two long garlands, one of small skulls and the other made of freshly severed human heads.

His two arms embrace the red Vajravarahi and cross behind her back in the diamond HUM-sound gesture, simultaneously holding a vajra and a bell, symbols of wisdom and compassion. She too grimaces passionately and fiercely and encircles his neck with her left arm, the skull bowl in it visible behind his head. Her right hand is raised above his shoulder, brandishing a vajra-chopper. She follows his vigorous warrior's pose, but folds her right leg around his thigh.

The combined right leg of Chakrasmavara and the left one of Vajravarahi trample underfoot the male deity Ishvara symbolizing the forces of ignorant hatred. Under Chakrasmavara's left leg lies Kalarati, the goddess who signifies desirous attachment.

At the center-top of the painting can be seen the blue-bodied Dhyani Buddha Akshobhya, in the bhumisparsha mudra. Chakrasamvara is believed to be an emanation of this Dhyani Buddha.

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