The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c9.s2.10

c9.s2.10

“The worshipper after leaving the bed in the morning should wash his feet and face and after purifying himself should go to a place which is lonely, agreeable, besmeared with scents, strewn with fragrant flowers, and then sit there in an easy pose. Then he should meditate on his heart the orb of the moon which originates from the first syllable -A- and on it think on the form of a beautiful blue lotus. On the filament of the lotus he should meditate on another moon the yellow germ syllable—Tām—as destroying the darkness of ignorance, illuminating innumerable worlds of the ten quarters, and bringing from the firmament innumerable Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.