Rasarnava 3
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- 3.19 — 1 part
3.1
The blessed Devī spoke:
O Lord, ruler of the gods, master of the world, lord of the universe,
explain the assignment of mantras that assists in mercurial operations.
3.2
The blessed Bhairava spoke:
I shall speak further of another mantra embodiment, the Rasāṅkuśī.
The fifth chamber, O Devī, is hard to reach for gods and demons.
3.3
There are four primary chambers, and the fifth is the Haṃsa chamber,
where success beginning with the syllable "ma" abides in the fifth chamber.
3.4
Just as the form is the resting place of the linga, the Māyā of the bearer of the linga is Liṅginī;
she is to be known through space, and the genital furrow is in the fifth.
3.5
Having first uttered the Praṇava, the unexcelled sonic seed,
and the syllable Hrīṃ and the syllable Krīṃ, next [comes] the comprehension of Haṃsa.
3.6
The lord of practitioners should receive the great Kālapāśa mantra;
and at the grand undertaking, [he should take] that mantra, the Pratīhāra, and the Rasāṅkuśī.
3.7
He should recite it one hundred thousand times; great success proceeds for him.
Then with what indeed should he gather the dung of a young calf?
3.8
With that itself he should gather the ash of a funeral-pyre fire, O supreme sovereign.
That field is the supreme site; the lord of mercury resides there.
3.9
He should sweep the site with a broom; Kubjikā is the khecarī,
composed of thirty-two syllables, O Devī, situated in the five sounds.
3.10
Then there are the four Siddhas, and eighteen Puruṣas are taught;
accompanied by the five principles, there should further be the fivefold meditation,
3.11
accompanied by the six Yoginīs, endowed with the twenty-seven stages,
endowed with eighty-one words, and accompanied by the five enclosures.
3.12
Following this sequence of practice, he should worship the broom;
with this he should sweep the site where the lord of mercury resides.
3.13
He should also have plastering done right there with Caṇḍaghaṇṭā;
that goddess Caṇḍaghaṇṭā is installed in the eastern chamber.
3.14
The goddess Caṇḍabhairavikā is situated in the southern chamber;
with it he should take cow dung for the sake of plastering, O fair-faced one.
3.15
The goddess Caṇḍakāpālinī is situated in the northern chamber;
having taken water with it, he should plaster the circle of the ground.
3.16
He should place seventeen-syllabled Kālī on the stone mortar,
and he should assign the terrifying thirty-two-syllabled [mantra] to the pestle.
3.17
He should take sour gruel, O Devī, consecrated with the Kālapāśa [mantra];
thus the family of the khecarī accomplishes the performance of good deeds.
3.18
The celestial khecarīs who reside [there] numbering eighty-eight thousand,
they all are his servants; they grind the medicinal herbs.
3.19
The single mantra of them all consists of four syllables:
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"so 'haṃ haṃsaḥ".
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That is the mantra of the khecarīs, named the Kulakhecarī.
3.20
Having assigned the Kulakhecarī mantra [to] black mustard and rock salt,
he should consecrate the sour gruel there; the king of mantras is Rasāṅkuśī.
3.21
He should recite there the Astra mantra, which was known in the ancient Bhārgava [tradition];
having ground molasses and brick, O beloved, mercury is ground with that.
3.22
What need to speak of the king of mantras? There is no word [superior to] the three-headed one;
he should join the six limbs to it, and then swiftly bear it.
3.23
He should assign the great mantra named Ḍāmara to the bellows;
he should assign the great Cintāmaṇi mantra to the casings.
3.24
He should assign the great mantra of Caṇḍikā to the vessel;
O woman of beautiful hips, he should assign the ninefold mantra to the chaff and cow dung.
3.25
He should assign the goddess Tripurābhairavī to the black mustard and sour gruel;
Kālarātri should be assigned to the molasses, O woman praised by heroes.
3.26
He should assign the three-peaked, three-eyed [mantra] to the fire;
O Devī, he should assign the eighty-four Caṇḍikās to the water.
3.27
The Kṣetrapāla Aghorāstra should be assigned to the furnace, O beloved;
and he should assign the Mahāpāśupatāstra to the crucible.
3.28
He should assign this collection of mantras to the mercurial site, O Devī;
then the fruit of that practitioner succeeds, O beloved.
3.29
He should recite the great Rasāṅkuśa mantra in the interior of the heart;
as for the other mantras of the Yoginīs, he should cause women to recite them all.
3.30
Thus the king of mantras, Rasāṅkuśa, should be unrevealed;
and he should protect the Praṇava, unrevealed to women,
just as a breach of the great covenant [arises from] the heart of women.
3.31
As for the mantras beginning with Kubjikā that have been revealed by me,
the three worlds were agitated by them, yet they do not obey my beloved.
3.32
Through the knowledge of the Rasāṅkuśa, the three worlds would come under subjugation.
3.33
Understanding the assignment of mantras thus, knowing the measures of apparatuses, crucibles, and fires,
the practitioner who performs mercurial operations attains success.
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- Rasārṇava — Sanskrit