{"collection":"tantra","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tantra/htk/htk15.htm","path":"tantra/htk/htk15.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tantra/htk/htk15.htm","text":"Hymn to Kali, by Arthur Avalon (Sir John George Woodroffe), [1922]\nO SPOUSE of Hara, 1 should (a S\u0101dhaka) daily 2 recite Thy mantra for the space of a year meditating the while 3 with knowledge of its meaning 4 upon Thee intent 5 upon Thy union 6 with the great Mah\u0101k\u0101la, above whom Thou art, 7 then such a knower 8 has every pleasure that he wills upon the earth, 9 and holds all great powers 10 in the grasp of his lotus-like hands.\nCOMMENTARY\n'Spouse of Hara' (Haravadh\u016b)\nCharmer of Mah\u0101k\u0101la.\n'Mentally recite' (Vicintya japati)\nThe Kaul\u0101val\u012b says that mental (M\u0101nas\u0101) Japa is a hundred times more efficacious than verbal (V\u0101cika) Japa.\nAccording to Durg\u0101r\u0101ma the words may also mean 'recite' keeping in mind the Artha or meaning and so forth of the Mantra. For it is said that he who does not know the Artha of Mantra, the Caitanya of Mantra, and Yoni-mudr\u0101 is without success (Siddhi) even if he do Japa of the Mantra a million times.\n'Unperturbed mind' (Susth\u012bbh\u016bya)\nThe Kul\u0101r\u1e47ava-Tantra thus enjoins: 'Beloved when doing Japa of a Mantra one should be calm, pure, sparing in food, reverential, self-controlled, unaffected by the opposites (Dvandva), steady of mind, silent and self-disciplined.\n'Meditating on Thee' (Vicintyatv\u0101m)\nThe Kaul\u0101val\u012b-Tantra says, 'One should meditate upon the Spouse of \u015aiva before Japa and after meditation should again do\n[paragraph continues] Japa.' The S\u0101dhaka who does Japa and meditation together soon attains success.\n'Upon Him' (Vip\u0101rit\u0101m)\n(The original is 'Vipar\u012btah' in the first case and Durg\u0101r\u0101ma therefore makes it an adjective of the S\u0101dhaka who he says unites with his \u015aakti in Vipar\u012bta Maithuna. Vimal\u0101nanda however reads it as Vip\u0101rit\u0101m in the second case making it an adjective of 'Thee' (the Dev\u012b) who is the object of meditation,)\n'Great Powers' (Mah\u0101siddhinivah\u0101h)\nSuch as that by which is gained S\u0101lokya, S\u0101r\u016bpya, S\u0101yujya and Nirv\u0101\u1e47a forms of Liberation.\n70:2 Sad\u0101: Means 'always' here 'daily' (K.B.)\n70:3 Vicintya, that is, who has mentally thought of the letters of the Bija and their meaning, which is mental japa (M\u0101nasa japa), defined in Narasi\u1e41ha-Pur\u0101\u1e47a (cited in the \u0100hnik\u0101c\u0101ra-tattva of Raghunandana) as the repetition in the mind, letter by letter, syllable by syllable, of the mantra, meditating at the same time upon its meaning.\n70:4 That is upon Var\u1e47a-sa\u1e41sth\u0101na or placing of the letters and their meaning and so forth.\n70:5 Susthibh\u016bya\u2014that is, whose senses are not directed to any other object (Commentary, K.B.)\n70:6 Ati\u015bayamah\u0101k\u0101lasurat\u0101m.\n70:7 Vip\u0101rit\u0101m (see sloka 7, note 5.)\n70:8 Vidv\u0101n whose sole aim is Mok\u1e63a.\n70:9 Literally 'wandering freely on Earth' (Commentary, K.B.)","title":"Hymn to Kali: Text: Verse 11","type":"page"}