An analysis of the STS mindset and path

[Sacred Fool]

 
I don't know that this will make sense to anyone else in the context of this thread, but here is another example of using STS power and balancing the consequences.  My point is that STS energies, utilized by a somewhat high level practitioner, can be a useful means of exploring and broadening consciousness. 

One may note that in this case and the others cited, the overarching purpose was STO and the main purpose was not self indulgence.  The nature of the specific experience, however, seems to me to be something contrasting with STO.  But in a world such as this where the bad often slaughters the good, is this such an untoward thing?  Those who would purely say, "yes," to that--and happen to reside in volatile areas--often perish along the way.  Others are left responding with defensive means and having to sort out their mixed loyalties.

But the revelation of the root mantra for Simhamukha is especially associated with the name of Bari Lotawa who came from the region of Dringtsam and it is said he was born in the same year as Milarepa (1040). Traveling to Nepal and India, he studied Sanskrit, translating many texts including a collection of sadhanas and a collection of magical rituals. While in Nepal, he debated with a Hindu teacher named Bhavyaraja, and when he defeated the later, the sorcerer launched a magical attack against the translator. In terror, he fled to Bodh Gaya in India, where his own spiritual master Vajrasanapa advised him to propitiate the Dakinis with puja offerings and pray for their help. In a dream, Simhamukha appeared to him and instructed him to go to a large rock to the east of Bodh Gaya and dig below the rock where he would find a hidden casket. He followed her instructions precisely and discovered the casket as described. Inside, written in blood on human skin, was the fierce mantra of fourteen letters that averts all magical attacks (sngags drag zlog yi-ge bcu-bzhi-pa). That night he performed an averting rite (zlog-pa byas-pa) and employing the mantra, he succeeded in hurling all the negative energy assaulting him back at its source in Nepal. The rebound was so strong that it killed the sorcerer. For the next year, Bari did penance and purification practices at the stupa in Bodh Gaya in order to cleanse the sin of his act.