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Vāmā, Jyeṣṭhā, Raudrī, Ambikā, and, by the conjunction "and", the supreme power: these five divine powers arise as portions of the unexcelled; that is to say, as portions of the unexcelled, they have become the shapes of the five downward-facing triangles within the Śrīcakra. These four powers—will, knowledge, action, and Śāntā—are the higher components, having the form of the four upward-facing triangles. This is the gist: these divine powers consisting of the playful expansion of the supreme—Raudrī, Vāmā, Jyeṣṭhā, Ambikā, along with will, knowledge, action, and Śāntā as the higher components—this cakra of nine triangles consists of this group of nine divine powers. "Divided and undivided, that pair of phonemes": divided, meaning individual parts; undivided, meaning the collective whole; that pair of phonemes well-known in all the Upaniṣads, which by the principle of the tongs encompasses the plenary I-ness whose form is luminous consciousness and reflective awareness, consisting of the esoteric mantras comprising all syllables—that pair of phonemes, having an elevenfold nature,