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

Three-hundred-thousand times when the practitioner has to concentrate his mind upon Kundalinī in the Mūlādhāra centre coiling herself round a phallic mass of light called Svayambhu. Again three hundred thousand times in the heart with the mind fixed on Kundalinī with the Liṅga as above called Bāna. Lastly the same number of times in the head with attention fixed on Kundalinī with the Liṅga called Itara. Mind loses its separate entity and becomes one with the object of meditation when Japa is performed a crore times. The serpent power lying dormant is to be awakened and raised from centre to centre in the body of the practitioner and these centres number nine and are located in the Mūlādhāra, Liṅga, navel, heart, throat, middle of the eyebrows and so on. The practitioner is advised further to see that the mantra when muttered is not subjected to the impurity, attendant on birth and death. Each breath before its beginning and termination is said to have this pollution. Immunity from such impurity is obtained by that practitioner who knows the meaning of the mantra, the life of the mantra and the Yonimudrā. The meaning of the mantra of Devī Tripurasundarī is said to be sixfold, i. e., literal meaning, traditional meaning, inner meaning, Kaulika meaning, occult meaning and real meaning. According to the literal meaning, the mantra is to be understood as implying the union of Śiva and Śakti because