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he is thus. 'The sun'—meaning the mixed drop, having become homogenous in the union of the white and red drops. For in ordinary experience the sun is of a mixed nature consisting of fire and moon. Therefore he states its worthiness of worship [in the word] 'kāma'. It is desired (kāmyate), longed for as one's own Self by great yogins established in the supreme reality; hence it is kāma. The reason in this regard is given: 'because of loveliness' (kamanīyatayā)—loveliness means being desirable; by that. 'Kalā' is the power of reflective awareness. 'Dahana' is fire; 'indu' is the moon; the two drops whose forms are precisely those two have the bodies of fire and moon. Here this is the meaning: the power of reflective awareness, having the form of fire and moon, inseparable from Kāmeśvara who is constituted of both of them, Mahātripurasundarī, who is the collective whole of the drops, is called kāmakalā; she alone is proclaimed throughout all scriptures as the object of meditation. And it is said: