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Janujugma-asana. Orissa, c. 19th<br />

century. Ivory.<br />

Viparit-rati, sexual union with<br />

Sakti on top of the sadhaka.<br />

Orissa, 18th century. Ivory.<br />

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Fulfilment and union<br />

om samayayai namah<br />

om cakresvaryai namah<br />

om kalikayai namah<br />

om dikkalavasinyai namah<br />

om mahacakresvrayai namah<br />

om tarayai namah.<br />

The adept then contemplates mental sexual intercourse. Dissolving<br />

in the fire of Sakti's yoni all the actions of the sense organs,<br />

regulating the vital breath so as to make it enter the Sushumna, he<br />

recites the mantra Hrim 108 more times, touching the breast of the<br />

Sakti with his right hand, and then Hrim 108 times while touching<br />

her yoni.<br />

Sakti places her hands over the sadhaka's head and recites thrice:<br />

Uttisthata: Get up.<br />

Jagrata: Wake up.<br />

Virobhava: Be strong.<br />

Nityamukta svabhavanubhava:<br />

Realization of the everlasting and free original self.<br />

Now I am giving you the command to immerse yourself within me. I am<br />

your guru, and enjoy yourself now with the full bliss within me. I am<br />

your Sakti and you are mine. According to the command of my Kaula<br />

Avdhut, I as visva-yoni [universal-yoni] am asking you to implant your<br />

cosmic linga in my field. My Sat-guru is here to protect you from your<br />

negative desires.<br />

Think that at this moment you are not my husband; you are Siva in the<br />

form of my Sat-guru and I am nothing but Sakti.<br />

May my divine self bless you and lead you to the eternal joy of bliss.<br />

Sadhaka is by this time no longer an adept but has been<br />

transformed as Bhairava, and as Siva he worships his Sakti with<br />

nine symbolic flowers: (1) holding, (2) embracing, (3) kissing, (4)<br />

touching, (5) visualizing, (6) seeing, (7) sucking, (8) penetrating,<br />

(9) meditating, while uttering the mantra, 'Sivo 'ham: I am Siva',<br />

'Sivo 'ham: I am Siva', 'Sivo 'ham: I am Siva'.<br />

If Sakti desires she may enact the opposite role, known as<br />

Viparit-rati, that is the role of the sadhaka. In that case the union is<br />

effected by Sakti on top of the sadhaka, who lies like a corpse, or<br />

Savasana, and does not move at all. Sakti is now the male and the<br />

guru, herself acting in the great drama and transfusing the<br />

potentially charged energy of the ritual. After a prolonged stay in

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