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Ghandarva Tantra
12th Patala
In the 12th Patala the mental offering of worship and the mental approach to and unification with Mahātripurasundarī are at length described. In the first, the practitioner is to sit on the prescribed Āsana keeping his body erect and with the hands full of red flowers placed near the heart, close the eyes and feeling as it were the august presence of Mahātripurasundarī in the heart, offer worship to her with the mental 16 requisites of worship. The Yogis and sages have recourse to this worship only.
In the second, i.e., the Dhyānayoga, the practitioner has to select a solitary place and seat himself in a particular posture with all his mental operations brought under control. He should feel oneness with the Transcendental Self through absolute introspection. In order to rise to that plane of consciousness he has to immerge the different elements of which the world is composed in the causeless cause. The order in which these evolutes are absorbed from the following into the preceding is given as follows:
The earth element merges in the water, water in the fire, fire in the air, air in the ether, ether in the mind, mind in the ego, ego in the manifest, the manifest matter in the unmanifest, and the unmanifest in the Supreme Self.
After the absorptive meditation is over, he has to think of evolution.
In this he is to think of evolution of the world from the causeless cause through matter, ego, mind etc. down to the frog, Kalagnirudra, Adharashakti in the form of a crocodile and boar holding on the tooth the earth.
There he has to think of the nectar-ocean, the coral island, the golden hill, the heavenly garden Kalpodyana and of streams and lakes.
On the shore of the highest among the lakes he should imagine the existence of the desire-granting tree with a jewel-pavilion having four gates fitted with diamond doors and coral thresholds and other decorative parts.
After having done so, he is to imagine the presence of one big lotus enclosed in another placed in the centre of the Simhāsana arranged on a platform of jewels inside the pavilion described above.
The outer lotus represents all the elements, its bulb - the bliss, its stalk - the consciousness, all the evolutes of Prakṛti furnishing the thirty two leaves and the fifty letters furnishing the pericarp of the lotus.
Inside the lotus he has to think of the sun, moon and fire one placed below another.
In the fiery orb there stands the triangular mass of light borne by the five karanas. In the centre of this triangle stands the third lotus in which the practitioner is to think of the seven goddesses Tripurā to Tripurambā.
Of the last, beautiful description of each part of the body is given in detail in the text.
While thinking so, the practitioner is to be at one with Mahātripurasundarī.
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