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Agnipurana 88

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The Lord said: / One should perform the junction of Śāntyatītā together with the purified Śānti / as before; there the principles, phonemes, and so forth are as follows:

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"Oṃ hīṃ kṣauṃ hauṃ hāṃ"—these are the junctions.

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Both Śakti and Śiva are the principles; the eight worlds to be attained are: / Dīpaka, Rocika, Mocaka, Ūrdhvagāmin,

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Vyomarūpa, Anātha, and Anāśrita is the eighth; / the word is the Oṅkāra in the Īśāna [direction]; the mantra and sixteen phonemes:

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Beginning with "a" and ending with visarga; the body-makers through the seed-syllable; / the channels are Kuhū and Śaṅkhinī; the two winds Devadatta and Dhanañjaya;

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The two organs are the sense of touch and hearing; the sense-object is ether;

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[p. 278]

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Its quality is sound; its state is the fifth, beyond the fourth;

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The presiding cause is the god Sadāśiva. Having thus contemplated the collection of principles / belonging to Śāntyatītā, he should perform striking and the other rites.

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Having struck the bond of the kalā, pierced it with [a mantra] ending in "phaṭ", / entered within with [one] ending in "namaḥ", he should sever it with [one] ending in "phaṭ".

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Enclosed by the crest and heart [mantras] and ending in "svāhā", with the goad gesture, / drawing the bond out from the cord on the head by inhalation,

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Holding it by retention, and by exhalation with the gesture called Udbhava / and [the mantra] enclosed by the heart and ending in "namaḥ", he should deposit it in the fire in the fire-pit.

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He should perform all the worship and other rites of this [kalā] just like those of Nivṛtti; / having invoked Sadāśiva, worshipped him, and offered libation,

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He should devoutly address him thus: "In this jurisdiction that is ever renowned, I initiate one who desires liberation; / you should be favorable [to him]!"

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Having performed the invocation and worship of the [divine] parents and libation in their presence, / he should strike the disciple on the chest with his own seed-syllable enclosed by the heart [mantra]:

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"Oṃ hāṃ hūṃ haṃ phaṭ!"

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And entering with this very [mantra], he should then separate consciousness / bound to the bond with the weapon [mantra], using the supreme goad gesture.

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"Oṃ hāṃ hūṃ haṃ phaṭ!"

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Drawing it out with [the mantra] ending in "svāhā", with the self enclosed by that very [mantra], / taking it with [the mantra] ending in "namaḥ", he should unite it into his own soul:

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"Oṃ hāṃ haṃ hīṃ to the soul, namaḥ!"

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1 "oṃ hāṃ huṃ haḥ phaṭ" is the reading in the book marked kha.

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2 "oṃ hāṃ haṃ hrīmātmane namaḥ" is the reading in the book marked kha. / [p. 279]

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Having meditated on the union of the parents as before, with the [gesture] called Udbhava, / he should deposit [the soul] into the womb of the goddess with Vāmā and with this very [mantra].

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He should perform all [rites] such as impregnation according to the previously stated rule; / with the root mantra, having performed expiation for the loosening of the bonds, he should recite a hundred times.

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For the obscuration of the power of impurity and the severing of the bonds, / he should offer five oblations for each with the weapon [mantra] as before.

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With the weapon mantra consecrated with a single recitation, / he should cut the bonds with scissors [formed of] the weapon [mantra] joined with the seed-syllable of the kalā, as before:

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"Oṃ hāṃ, to the bond of the Śāntyatīta-kalā: haḥ hūṃ phaṭ!"

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Having released the bonds and rolled them into a ball with the weapon [mantra] as before, / placing them in a ladle filled with ghee, he should offer them into the fire with the weapon mantra of the kalā.

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He should offer five oblations with the weapon [mantra] to remove the bond-goad; / then he should offer eight oblations to prevent [any need for] expiation.

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Having invoked Sadāśiva with the heart [mantra] and performed worship and libation, / he should make the offering of the jurisdiction according to the previously stated rule:

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"Oṃ hāṃ, Sadāśiva, accept the mind and bindu as your toll, svāhā!"

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"O Sadāśiva, of this bound soul whose bonds are completely burned away, / you must not remain for bonding!" Thus he should proclaim Śiva's command.

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He should offer the full oblation with the root mantra and dismiss Sadāśiva; / then [regarding] the purified soul risen like an autumn moon,

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Uniting it into himself by the fierce Saṃhāra-mudrā, the guru / should extract it with the Udbhava-mudrā and place it in the disciple's body.

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To invigorate him, he should place a drop of water from the water offering upon his head; / having asked forgiveness with great devotion, he should likewise dismiss the [divine] parents:

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1 "vāmayā hṛdayenaiva" is the reading in the book marked ga. / [p. 280]

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"O parents, because you were troubled by me for the initiation of the disciple, / release [me] out of compassion; therefore go to your own abode!"

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With scissors consecrated with the crest mantra, he should cut the disciple's topknot, / four fingers [long], embodying the power of awareness, with the weapon mantra of Śiva:

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"Oṃ klīṃ to the crest: hūṃ phaṭ! Oṃ haḥ to the weapon: hūṃ phaṭ!"

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Placing it inside a ball of cow dung in an offering spoon filled with clarified butter, / he should offer it as a fire oblation with the weapon mantra ending in hūṃ phaṭ.

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“Oṃ hauṃ haḥ, to the weapon, hūṃ phaṭ!”

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Having washed the two ladles, bathed the disciple, and sipped water himself, / he should strike his own self, the site of union, with the weapon mantra.

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Having detached, drawn forth, and worshipped [it] as before, from the dvādaśānta, / he should place [it] in the pericarp of the lotus of his own heart.

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Having taken up the sruva filled with clarified butter with the sruc turned downwards, / according to the procedure stated for daily rites, using the gesture resembling a conch,

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with head and neck stretched out, following the resonance of the nāda, / with an even gaze, composed within, endowed with the supreme state,

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taking from the pot, the maṇḍala, the fire, / from the disciple, and also from himself, the sixfold order [of the channels] of the prāṇa-nāḍī at the tip of the sruc,

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contemplating [it] as a bindu, meditating [on it] progressively as sevenfold: / first the nature of the conjunction of prāṇa, and then the next.

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Uttered in sequence from the heart and so forth, emitted and called mantra; / having performed inhalation and retention, opening the mouth slightly,

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the third is that which follows the suṣumṇā and has the nature of nāda; / by renunciation at the seventh cause, dissolution is the tranquil peak.

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The upward movement of energy and sound is considered the peak of energy; / devoid of the knowables of energy, of the entire prāṇa,

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the sixth is the peak of time, and the seventh transcends energy. / That is the place of union, called the highest principle.

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Having performed inhalation and retention, opening the mouth slightly, / softly uttering the root mantra, having effected the dissolution of the disciple's self

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into the syllable Ha, which has the form of lightning and the nature of the vital breath of the six pathways; / then the syllable U, situated occupying a span from the navel;

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then beyond that, the syllable Ma, four fingers above the heart; / the oṅkāra, expressing Viṣṇu, eight fingers from there up to the throat;

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the syllable Ma situated in the palate, four fingers [above], expressing Rudra; / likewise the bindu situated in the middle of the forehead, expressing Īśvara;

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nāda, [which is] the god Sadāśiva, ending at the brahmarandhra; / and leaving the energy located in the brahmarandhra in this regular order,

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and experiencing in that very state the divine sensation [like] crawling ants, / in the supreme principle at the dvādaśānta, characterized by supreme bliss,

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in Śiva, devoid of objective existence, beyond the mind, in whom eternal qualities arise; / having dissolved [it] mentally therein, he should meditate on the disciple's self,

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releasing a stream of clarified butter into the supreme Śiva even at the end of the flame, / with the Śiva-mantra ending in vauṣaṭ, for the stability of the union.

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Having offered the full oblation according to rule, he should perform the conferral of attributes:

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“Oṃ hāṃ, to the Self, be omniscient, svāhā! Oṃ hāṃ, to the Self,

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be fully satisfied, svāhā! Oṃ hrūṃ, to the Self, be of beginningless wisdom, svāhā!

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/ Oṃ hauṃ, to the Self, be independent, svāhā! Oṃ hauṃ, O Self,

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be of unfailing power, svāhā! Oṃ haḥ, to the Self, be of boundless power,

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svāhā!” Having thus received the self endowed with six qualities from the supreme syllable,

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endowed with contemplation according to rule, he should unite it in the body of the disciple. / To calm the fatigue caused by the intense descent of the power of the soul,

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he should deposit a drop of nectar from the arghya offering on the disciple's head. / Having caused him to bow down to the pot of Īśa and the rest, in the southern circle from Śiva,

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having placed the disciple to his right, with a pleasant countenance, [the guru prays]: / “This one has been graced by you alone, taking on my form.

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Therefore, increase his devotion to the god, the fire, and the guru.” / Having thus addressed the Lord of the gods and bowed down himself, the guru

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should respectfully speak the blessing to the disciple: “May you have welfare!” / Then, having offered the eight-flower offering to the god with supreme devotion, / and having bathed the spiritual son with the Śiva-pot, he should conclude the sacrifice.

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Thus ends the eighty-eighth chapter, called “The Completion of Liberating Initiation”, in the ancient Mahāpurāṇa composed by Agni.

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Now, eighty-ninth chapter.

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The teaching of initiation through a single principle.

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