The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c9.s3.2
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c9.s3.2
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The Sādhana is concerned with the process for worshipping a particular deity as has been made abundantly clear in the previous section. This consists in meditation in a quiet place and there practise Yoga till a state similar to deep sleep is brought about. In this state of deep sleep the ascetic communes with the Infinite Spirit or the inexhaustible store-house of energy, which is supposed to be the highest creative principle behind the world structure. By this communion the ascetic draws forth energy from that inexhaustible store-house and becomes powerful himself. This process of the realisation of the Infinite Spirit is what is called Sādhana. The deity is part of this psychic process.