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VijRanabhairava
1. AQima and other supernormal powers are the folIo Ning:
(1) AQima-the power of becoming as small as an atom.
(2) Laghima-the power of assuming excessive lightness.
(3) Mahima-the power of increasing the size.
(4) Prapti-the power of obtaining everything.
(5) Prakamya-the power of fulfilling one's desire without
any resistance; irresistible will.
(6) Vatitva-the power of bringing all the elements and
material objects into subjection.
(1) Ititrtva-the power of producing and destroying the
elements and mate.rial· objects.
(8) .Yatrakamavasayitva-the power of fulfilling all
resolves.
2. Darling of the yoginls-one sense of this expression is
that he becomes the master of the Saktis (powers) like jiiana
(knowledge), kriyii (activity), iinanda (bliss). According to the
Kaula traditiQn, there is another sense of the yoginls. A male
practitioner of yoga was known as vira or siddha and a female
one was known as yoginl. From this point of view, the sense of
the above would be "He becomes the favourite of the yoginls."
3. Melipakas - The word melapaka means uniting, conjunction.
In this context, Anandabhalta interprets it as sakalasya
asya vedya-vedaka-iidi-raseb khillkrlasvabhavab i. e. 'one who has
risen above all the distinctions of the knower and the known
etc., and has thus acquired the nature of Bhairava.' According
to the Kaula tradition melapaka means the gathering or union
of the siddhas and the yoginls.
4. The question of Bhairavi was "who is para devl or the
highest sakti (power) of the divine 1" The answer that Bhairava
'has given is that para devl is only the sakli or nature of Bhairava
that everything in the universe is only an expression of that
nature and that out of the 112 dharlU,lQs described, if anyone
masters even one dharlU,lii, he would attain that divine nature.
Bhairavi now puts a further question "If every thing in the
universe is only an expression of the divine and if the aspirant
. by practising to perfection anyone of the dhiirlU,las becomes
divine, then what becomes of tho distinction between the devotee