Introduction to Tantra Sastra - Aghori
Introduction to Tantra Sastra - Aghori
Introduction to Tantra Sastra - Aghori
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YOGA 141<br />
closes the nostrils, making sixty-four japas. While making<br />
the japa he thinks that the body of “the man of sin” is<br />
being burnt and reduced <strong>to</strong> ashes (by fire). He then<br />
exhales through the right nostril with thirty-two japas.<br />
He then meditates upon the white candra-bija “haṃ.”<br />
He next inhales through Iḍ a, making japa of the bija<br />
sixteen times, closes both nostrils with japa done sixtyfour<br />
times, and exhales through Piṇgala with thirty-two<br />
japas. During inhalation, holding of breath, and exhalation,<br />
he should consider that a new celestial body is<br />
being formed by the nectar (composed of all the letters<br />
of the alphabet, matṛ ka-varṇ a) dropping from the moon.<br />
In a similar way with the bīja “vaṃ,” the formation of<br />
the body is continued, and with the bīja “laṃ” it is<br />
completed and strengthened. Lastly, with the mantra<br />
“Sohaṃ,” the sadhaka leads the jīvātmā in<strong>to</strong> the heart.<br />
Thus Kuṇ ḍ alinī, who has enjoyed Her union with Paramaśiva,<br />
sets out, on her return journey the way she<br />
came. As she passes through each of the cakras all that<br />
she has absorbed therefrom come out from herself and<br />
take their several places in the cakra.<br />
In this manner she again reaches the mūlādhāra,<br />
when all that is described <strong>to</strong> be in the cakras are in the<br />
position which they occupied before her awakening.<br />
The Guru’s instructions are <strong>to</strong> go above the ājñā<br />
cakra, but no special directions are given; for after this<br />
cakra has been pierced the sādhaka can reach the<br />
brahmasthāna un-aided. Below the “seventh mouth of<br />
Śiva” the relationship of Guru and śiṣya ceases. The<br />
instructions of the seventh amnaya are not expressed<br />
(aprakāśita).