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

Yoginis. In the centre of the triangle or the Bindu Chakra Parāpararahasya Yoginī Mahātripurasundarī is to receive her worship The worship of Mahātripurasundarī is threefold Para, Apara and Parāpara, In the Apara the Practitioner has to worship her as indentical with the Kundalinī in the body In the Apara she is to receive her worship in Śrī- chakra, with all the necessary articles of worship The third form of worship includes both the inner and outer aspects of the worship. 6th CHAPTER. In the 6th, Patala Śiva in reply to the quiry made by Pārvatī regarding the third form of worship gives in detail instructions for the guidance of the practioner. These are that the practioner should rise early in the morning, sit on the Padmāsana, have the Prānāyāma exercise and meditate upon his Guru seated in the thousand-petalled lotus, dressed in white, having two eyes and two hands with Vara and Abhaya in them, with his wife sitting on the left thigh and having two hands one holding the white lotus and the other engaged in the tight embrace of her husband. Mantra of the Guru is ऐँह्रीँश्रीँ हसखफ्रें, हस- क्षमलवरयूं, हसखफ्रे, हसक्षमलवरई, ह्सौ स्हौ. and names of the Guru and his wife followed respectively by आनन्दनाथ- पादुका पूजयामि and अम्बापादुका पूजयामि He should offer the objects of senses through the latter to his Guru, smell as perfume, sound as flower, touch as incense, form as lamp, flavour as Naivedya After this come