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

subtle The gross form is visible in females and the subtle in the Kundalinī It is, therefore, commanded that the fe- males should not be subjected to any cold treatment such as beating etc. Worship of the subtle form is conducted through the Kundalinī Yoga. 38th CHAPTER. In this Śiva says that the Devī feels satisfied not so much with the mental worship as with the physical · In accounting for the same it is said how she was once praised by Brahma and how she being pleased conferred on the Trinity, Brahma, Vishnu and Śiva, their respective powers - creation, sustainment and destruction and how she was born first as Satī and then as Pārvatī and how she advised Śiva to marry her as a Vīra and how he praised her expressnig that all his eight forms were really her own manifestations and at the end how she appeared before Śiva in the form of the Universe The reader is here to see for himself how much the Tantra has borrowed from the Durgā - saptaśatī and the Bhagavadgītā 39th CHAPTER This chapter sets forth that spirit and matter are the two eternal principles The former is represented by the