Guru Yoga > Visualizing the Heroes and Heroines of the twenty-four places

Question 1

What are the twenty-four places of basis Guru Heruka’s body:

Answer 1

1. the hairline
2. the crown
3. the right ear
4. the back of the neck
5. the left ear
6. the point between the eyebrows
7. the two eyes
8. the two shoulders

These are the nature of the twenty-four places of Heruka.

Question 2

Who are the Heroes and Heroines that appear at the twenty-four places?

Answer 2

The channels of the twenty-four places appear as the twenty-four Heroines;

and the drops inside these channels appear as the twenty-four Heroes.

Thus at the place of his hairline, Puliramalaya, are Hero Khandakapala, who is the same person as Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, with Heroine Partzandi as his consort.

At the place of his crown, Dzalandhara are Hero Mahakankala, who is the same person as Bodhisattva Manjushri, and his consort Heroine Tzändriakiya.

The twenty-four Heroes and the twenty-four Heroines listed above are distinguished only by their aspect and function.

In essence all these Deities are a manifestation of definitive Heruka and no different from Heruka himself.