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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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