गान्धर्व तन्त्र (शैव-शाक्त आगम - मन्त्र-रहस्य, यन्त्र एवं देवतोपासना सटीक)

After the absorptive meditation is over, he has to think of evolution In this he is to think of evolution of the world from the causeless cause through matter, ego, mind, etc. etc, down to the frog, Kālāgnirudra, Ādhāraśaktı in the form of a crocodile and boar holding on the tooth the earth. There he has to think of the nectar-ocean, the coral island, the golden hill, the heavenly garden Kalpodyāna and of streams and lakes On the shore of the biggest among the lakes he should imagine the existence of the desire-grant- ing tree with a jewel-pavilion having four gates fitted with diamond doors and coral threshoulds and other decorative parts After having done so, he is to imagine the presence of one big lotus enclosed in another placed in the centre of the simhāsana arranged on a platform of jewels inside the pavilion described above The outer lotus represents all the elements, its bulb the bliss, its stalk the consciousness, all the evolutes of Prakriti furnishing the thirtytwo leaves and the fifty letters furnishing the pericarp of the lotus Inside the lotus he has to think of the sun, moon and fire one placed below another In the fiery orb there stands the triangular mass of light borne by the five kāraṇās. In the centre of this triangle stands the third lotus in which the practioner is to think of the seven goddesses Tripurā to Tripurāmbā. Of the last, beautiful description of each part of the body is given in detail in the text. While thinking