Anandakanda 1.11

Chapter 1.11 / <Perfection of the Divine Body while Still Alive; Bhūtakālāntakarasa>
Śrī Bhairavī [said]: / O god of gods, O Mahādeva, you have now declared / divine rejuvenation therapies that bestow alchemical perfection, O Maheśvara,

Which indeed bestow the perfection of the bodies through a long time of cosmic ages. / O Parameśvara, O god, how immediate perfection arises,

Teach that, which bestows perfection of the body upon men, even those with missing, extra, defective, or withered limbs, / or the stammering, the mute, the hunchbacked, or the leprous,

The blind, the lame, the feeble, those whose bodies are shattered by senescence, / those perpetually afflicted by disease, eunuchs, the emaciated, the deranged,

Even those afflicted by bhūtas, pretas, piśācas, epilepsy, and madness, / and those who have only a breath of life left through mishap.

Śrī Bhairava [said]: / Having heard those words of Bhairavī: Well asked by you, O beloved! / I will declare such perfection of the body, O fair-faced one.

Five pills consisting of the five elemental substances are to be made, O beloved; / the sixth pill should consist of the soul, possessing body and cavity.

At the proper season, whichever maiden engages in prolonged sexual union, / the blood present in her vulva becomes the white essence of mica.

The feces of her newly born son is the air / element; her pure menstrual blood is the essence of fire.

The blood of that child is proclaimed to be the water element; / the whole body of that child is called the earth element.

And the semen of the worshipper of quicksilver is the life-breath element, my dear. / One should employ quicksilver that pierces by the crore, one karṣa for each.

Within each element respectively, one should grind them with a sprinkling [of liquid]. / Having made balls of these, one should set aside the six kinds of mercury separately.

A copper cauldron, a man's height in height / and half that in width, with a thickness of six aṅgulas,

over a four-opening furnace; / one should place the cauldron upon it steadily and well, and fill its interior, my dear,

with cow's ghee and great oil, these two in equal parts. / One should worship the ten guardians of the directions, the yoginīs, and the virgin girl,

the venerable guru, the circle of perfected ones, Bhairava and likewise Bhairavī, / the lord of Gaṇas, the guardian of the field, and likewise one's own chosen deity,

the nine planets, fire, brāhmaṇas, astrologers, excellent physicians, / as well as the makers of obstacles, bhūtas, pretas, piśācas,

yakṣas, rākṣasas, gandharvas, knowers of mantras, and even one's own kinsmen. / One should gratify them with fermented liquor, meat, garments, ornaments, and gold,

and cast divine offerings pleasing to each in the cardinal directions. / With four curved pipes, one should blow [the fire] with khadira charcoal.

When it becomes free of froth, smokeless, and fully heated, / having bowed to the venerable guru, one's own deity, the moon, the sun, fire, the stars,

and the worlds, one should cast the body into the cauldron. / Knowing the body to be completely liquefied, one should add the mercury named earth.

One should blow intensely with effort, and when it becomes a paste, / one should then cast in the mercury named water element and turn it red.

Afterward, one should add the fire-element mercury, and it turns to flesh. / One should add, one should cast in the mercury named wind element;

then it attains a white color. And then, O Pārvatī, / one should cast in the ether-element mercury and the mercury element named life-breath.

One should add mercury equal to that melted gold; / the perfected one becomes endowed with life and utters three 'Huṃ' sounds.

Resplendent like the risen orb of the sun, of great intellect and prowess, / of mighty form and immense splendor, having the mighty strength of ten thousand elephants,

endowed with beauty resembling Love, equal in speech to the goddess of speech, / equal in intellect to Bṛhaspati, fortunate, like Viṣṇu, resembling Kubera,

in renunciation and in wrath like the fire of cosmic dissolution, in depth like the great ocean, / creator, destroyer, protector, bestower of grace upon all, master,

with divine sight, of adamantine body, he is Bhairava himself in visible form. / [He mounts a chariot] half a yojana wide, adorned with golden bells,

resplendent with hovering black bees, adorned with diverse rubies, / entwined with golden garlands, charming with the sound of bells,

filled with conches and kāhalā horns of divine radiance and great sound, / along with musical instruments such as vīṇās, flutes, and mṛdaṅgas, and murajas,

filled with various kinds of cymbals and other divine sounds, / accompanied by singing kinnaras, gandharvas, and likewise kiṃpuruṣas.

Wearing glittering ruby armlets, necklaces, bracelets, and rings, / adorned with glass anklets, bedecked with divine ornaments,

garlanded with divine wreaths, anointed with divine fragrant pastes, / clothed in divine garments, of lovely form, frantic with intoxicated love,

celestial women then approach him and say: / 'What is our work, O tormentor of the perfected? O god, give your command!'

More than a hundred thousand daughters of the perfected attend upon him. / 'Wherever you go, there indeed shall we follow, chosen by you.'

Enjoying diverse divine palaces adorned with gold and rubies, / and repeatedly partaking of divine baths and drinks,

he roams at will through all the realms of Indra and the rest, / worshipped by hosts of gods and perfected beings just as this Bhairava is.

Enjoying all pleasures, free from hunger and thirst, / enjoying a hundred thousand yoginīs, contemplating supreme bliss,

even when this great cosmic age has come to an end and dwindled away, O fair-faced one, / he merges into the supreme ether, where the deities merge.

Named Bhūtakālāntaka, through the power of this mercury, / he becomes invulnerable, indestructible, and unburnable, my dear.

This bestows the perfection of all rejuvenation therapies, O great goddess. / This king of mantras that grants alchemical perfection will now be taught:

Aiṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ klīṃ sauḥ, O venerable Bhairava!