Introduction to Tantra Sastra - Aghori

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INTRODUCTION TO TANTRA ŚĀSTRA
colours of all things, and is constantly going and returning.
As the Brāhmaṇ a-sarvasva says: “The Bhargah is
the Ātmā of all that exists, whether moving or
motionless, in three lokas (Bhūr-bhuvah-svah). There is
nothing which exists apart from it.”
Devasya is the genitive of Deva, agreeing with
Savituh. Deva is the radiant and playful (lilāmaya) one.
Sūrya, is in constant play with creation (sṛ ṣṭ i), existence
(sthiti), and destruction (pralaya), and by His radiance
pleases all. (Lilā, as applied to the Brahman, is the
equivalent of māyā.) Vareṇ yaṃ = varaṇ iya, or adorable.
He should be meditated upon and adored that we may
be relieved of the misery of birth and death. Those who
fear rebirth, who desire freedom from death and liberation
and who strive to escape the three kinds of pain
(tāpa-traya), which are ādhyātmika, ādhidaivika, and
ādhibhautika, meditate upon and adore the Bharga,
who dwelling in the region of the Sun, is Himself the
three regions called Bhūr-loka, Bhuvar-loka, and Svarloka.
Dhimahi = dhyāyema, from the root dhyai. We
meditate upon, or let us meditate upon.
Pracodayat = may He direct. The Gāyatrī does not
so expressly state, but it is understood that such
direction is along the catur-varga, or four-fold path,
which is dharma, artha, kāma, and mokṣa (piety,
wealth, desire and its fulfilment, and liberation, vide
post). The Bhargah is ever directing our inner faculties
(buddhi-vṛ tti) along these paths.
The above is the Vaidik Gāyatrī, which, according to
the Vaidik system, none but the twice-born may utter.
To the Śūdra, whether man or woman, and to women of
all other castes it is forbidden. The Tantra which has a