Ritual

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(12 times: the guru's Gayatri mantra)
Om aim guru devaya vidmahe
caitanyarupaya dhimahi
tanno guru prachodayat om.
He visualizes the guru as identified with his (the sadhaka's) ishtadevata
(chosen deity) by concentrating on the guru's ideal image
(guru-dhyanam):
Sudhasphatikasankasam virajitam
gandhdnulepanam nijagurumkarunyenav alokitam
vamorusaktisamyuktam suklambarabhusitam
sasaktim daksahastena dhrtam carukalevaram
vame dhrtotpalansca suraktim susobhanam
ananda rasollasa lochandvya pankajamdhyayet.
He repeats five times the bija mantra Haum, Hrim at the
imagined feet of the guru. At this point, it is believed, the power of
the guru and his sakti are projected on to the adepts, and they
themselves become guru and his sakti. The adepts visualize
themselves as identified with the pervading reality, Siva-Sakti,
and, having gone through the ritual of the control of the senses by
invocation and purifying rites, they submerge themselves into the
immensity and appear to be space-clad or naked.
The sadhaka then places before him two bowls in the name of
the guru and his sakti and pours wine into them:
Om jaya jaya vijaya vijaya
parabrahma svarupini
sarvajanam me vasanaya
Hum Phat svaha
He gives one bowl of wine to his own Sakti who drinks half and the
rest is taken by the sadhaka.
Sadhaka imagines that he is sitting on the guru's right lap and his
Sakti on the imagined guru's left lap and they embrace each other
and utter the following mantra 12 times:
Lam - Muladhara
Vam - Svadishthana
Ram - Manipura
Yam - Andhata
Ham - Visuddha
Sadhaka and his sakti then enjoy the ritual of divine nectar. He
sucks in a single breath at each of Sakti's breasts to awaken in
himself the sensation known as amrta-pan ('taking of nectar'). This
ends the ritual of the guru.