Agnipurana 82

English (machine translation) 82

Language: English

82.3 — 4 parts
82.5 — 1 part
82.13 — 5 parts
82.24 — 6 parts

82.1

The Lord said: / I will proclaim the procedure in the initiation of purification (saṃskāradīkṣā); listen, O Six-faced One (Ṣaṇmukha). / He should invoke the head of the Great Lord residing in the fire into the heart.

82.2

Having worshipped the two as united, and having propitiated them with the heart-soul-mantra, / he should offer five oblations with that very [mantra] to secure their presence.

82.3

He should strike that child (the disciple) in the heart with a flower smeared with the weapon-mantra; / and there he should visualize consciousness resembling a glittering star.

82.3.p1

[Gap in text]

82.3.p2

1. "śivātmanā" is the reading in the two manuscripts marked kha and ga.

82.3.p3

2. "śivahaste ca sthityartham" is the reading in the manuscript marked ga.

82.3.p4

3. "kusumenāṣṭajaptena" is the reading in the manuscript marked ṅa. / Page 253

82.4

Entering there, drawing that [consciousness] released with the syllable hūṃ by means of exhalation / through the Saṃhāriṇī [mudrā], he should deposit it in his heart through inhalation.

82.5

Then, into the womb of Vāgīśvarī, with the mudrā named Udbhava, / he should project it through exhalation with the mantra enclosed by the heart-syllables:

82.5.p1

“Oṃ hāṃ hāṃ hāṃ, salutation to the Self.”

82.6

When [the fire] is blazing brightly without smoke, he should offer oblations for the attainment of the desired result; / but in a fire that is not flared up and is smoky, the fire oblation does not succeed.

82.7

A fire that is glossy, turning clockwise, and sweet-smelling is commended; / and one having inverted sparks and touching the ground is praised.

82.8

Having burnt the stain of the disciple with offerings marked by such signs as these, / or he should consume it through the fire oblation of devouring sins, with the essence of Bhava,

82.9

for the sake of bringing about the status of the twice-born, and likewise in the realization of being a portion of Rudra, / for the purification of sustenance and semen, for the rite of conception (garbhādhāna) during pregnancy,

82.10

for hair-parting (sīmanta), and for name-giving (nāmakaraṇa) after birth, he should offer oblations: / five hundred [oblations] with the root-mantra, [concluding with] “vauṣaṭ” and other formulas, down to a tenth portion.

82.11

The elevation of the power of the soul whose bonds have been loosened, / into the status of a son of Rudra, is called the rite of conception (garbhādhāna).

82.12

The manifestation of the soul's own quality of autonomy is regarded here as the rite for producing a male child (puṃsavana); / the knowledge arising from discrimination between Māyā and the Self is the growth of the parted hair (sīmantavardhana);

82.13

and the assumption [of the soul] through the purification of the tattvas from Śiva downwards is regarded as birth.

82.13.p1

[Gap in text]

82.13.p2

1. "hṛtsampuṭātmamantreṇa" is the reading in the manuscript marked ṅa.

82.13.p3

2. "oṃ hāṃ hāṃ ātmane namaḥ" is the reading in the manuscripts marked ga and gha; "oṃ hāṃ ātmane namaḥ" is the reading in the manuscript marked ṅa.

82.13.p4

3. "pāpakṣayeṇa homena" is the reading in the manuscript marked ṅa.

82.13.p5

4. "vījasaṃsiddhau" is the reading in the manuscript marked ṅa. / Page 254

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The awakening [of the soul] through Śivahood of one worthy of Śivahood is not disapproved.

82.14

Taking the self, resembling a flashing spark of fire, with the dissolution gesture, / he should place it in his own heart-lotus.

82.15

Then, through retention of breath, he should utter the root mantra; / he should then bring about complete unity in the heart of both Śivas.

82.16

Through exhalation, leading the self step by step up to Śiva / without abandoning the causal deities beginning with Brahmā, and taking it with the emergence gesture,

82.17

the knower of rites, by means of an exhalation / with the mantra enclosed in the heart, should cast it into the pericarp of the disciple's heart-lotus.

82.18

The guru should perform the appropriate worship of Śiva and the fire; / he should have the disciple make prostration to the self and make him hear the probationary pledges:

82.19

"He must not revile God or the scriptures, nor step over leftovers [of offerings]; / and worship of Śiva, fire, and guru must be performed as long as life lasts.

82.20

For children, fools, the aged, women, worldly enjoyers, and the sick, / he should give wealth according to ability; for the capable, all of it.

82.21

Reciting in order with [the mantras] beginning with Īśāna or beginning with the heart / over the ascetic articles: the matted hair, ash, staff, loincloth, and restraints,

82.22

and placing them into the vessels as before with the saṃhitā mantras ending in svāhā, / having offered melted [ghee] prepared [for oblation], he should show them to the Lord of the altar-ground.