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om anaisvaryaya namah<br />

om avairagyaya namah<br />

om adharmaya namah<br />

om ajnanaya namah<br />

om jnanatmane namah<br />

om kriyatmane namah<br />

om paramatmane namah. 39<br />

After the recitation of the mantra, the sadhaka places a libation<br />

bowl on the yantra and sprinkles wine with the red flower. He then<br />

worships his Sakti with the mantra:<br />

Om aim kandarpaya namah<br />

om hrim kamarajaya namah<br />

om klim manmathaya namah<br />

om blum makardhvajaya namah<br />

om strim monobhavaya namah.<br />

and says the following mantra on four sides of his sakti:<br />

Om batukaya namah<br />

om bhairavaya namah<br />

om durgayai namah<br />

om ksetrapalaya namah<br />

He then uses vermilion paste to draw an upward-pointed<br />

triangle with a bindu in its centre on the forehead of his Sakti and<br />

begins to worship her from the Ajna chakra region downwards<br />

with the following mantra, in which he personifies her as the three<br />

aspects of Devi as Durga, Laksmi and Sarasvati:<br />

Om hsauh sadasiva mahapreto padmasanaya namah<br />

om aim klim strim blum adharasaktisri padukam pujayami namah<br />

om Durgayai namah<br />

om Laksmyai namah<br />

om Sarasvatyai namah.<br />

Finally he worships Ganesa, bestower of attainment.<br />

Body worship<br />

This stage of the ritual implies a sensuous and aesthetic experience<br />

which takes into account the ever-present interphysical relationship<br />

between man and woman. However transitory its<br />

nature, the physical communion is a limitation of the absolutely<br />

real. The sadhaka worships his Sakti's hair and face as representing<br />

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