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

as known to the experts in the Tantric lore It is given in the form of questions and replies. Devi asks the following questions.- 1 Whence does the speech originate and wherein does it disappear? 2 Who feels appetite and thirst and who sleeps and wakes up? 3 Who sins and is bound and who emancipated? 4 How is the etheric side of the soul to be accounted for in the body? 5 How does the soul assume the physical body? 6 Who is the soul? 7 How does the soul see? 8. How does it become Sakala (bound) and how Nishkala (released)? 9 How does it get sustenance and what accounts for its physical appearance and disappearance? Śiva replies:- 1 Speech comes from and merges in the mind through the instrumentality of Avyakta and the vital breath. 2 Vital breath feels desire for food and drink and the bodily fire enjoys them Wind ( Vital breath) causes sleep and waking 3 Mind is responsible for sins and bondage When the soul being under control ceases to function, it becomes free 4 The soul has three sides, aerial, astral and etheric as breathing, digesting and speaking, 5 The Soul appears in the physical form under the influence of matter as Sattva, Rajas and Tamas and it is centered in the tip of the nose, navel and heart It lives as embodied so long as the heart and the head continue to function. 6 The