{"collection":"tantra","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tantra/htk/htk24.htm","path":"tantra/htk/htk24.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tantra/htk/htk24.htm","text":"Hymn to Kali, by Arthur Avalon (Sir John George Woodroffe), [1922]\nO MOTHER, he who, being a controller of his passions, 1 eats havi\u1e63y\u0101nna\u1e41, 2 and, being proficient in meditation on Thy feet, rightly recites 3 Thy mantra a hundred thousand times by day, and he who afterwards 4 naked at night, when united with his \u015aakti, 5 rightly recites Thy great mantra another such hundred thousand times, becomes on earth like unto the Destroyer of Smara. 6\nCOMMENTARY\n'Naked' (Nagnah)\nThat is free from the covering of M\u0101y\u0101; Nirvik\u0101ra.\n'Amorous play' (Nidhuvana-vinodena)\nThat is enjoying the bliss of union between \u0100tm\u0101 and Para\u015bakti. The Kul\u0101r\u1e47ava-Tantra says, 'That is coition (Maithuna) in which there is the bliss arising from the union of \u0100tm\u0101 and Para\u015bakti. Others are but Enjoyers of women.'\n'Becomes' (Sy\u0101t)\nThat is, becomes liberated whilst yet living (J\u012bvanmukta) like \u015aiva.\n91:1 Vash\u012b. The first part of this \u015aloka refers to Pa\u015bv\u0101c\u0101ra.\n91:2 That is, one who has undertaken the Pura\u015bcara\u1e47avrata, and eats the pure form of food known as Havi\u1e63y\u0101nna\u1e41 (K.B.).\nHavi\u1e63y\u0101\u015banaratah: that is after the recitation (V).\n91:3 Makes japa (see ibid.).\n91:4 Para\u1e41: that is, when he has been Abhi\u1e63ikta into V\u012br\u0101c\u0101ra.\n91:5 p. 92 Nakta\u1e41 nagno nidhuvana-vinodena, the meaning of which is y\u0101d\u0101 s\u0101dhakah \u015bakty\u0101 saha maithuna-kriy\u0101sakto bhavati, tad\u0101 sa mantra\u1e41 japati.\n91:6 Smarahara or \u015aiva (see note 5 to \u015aloka 18, ante). The Tantrakalpadruma says, 'He who eats Havi\u1e63y\u0101nna\u1e41, who keeping Dev\u012b in mind recites the Mantra a hundred thousand times by day and is at night united with his \u015aakti becomes the Lord of the earth.' (V).","title":"Hymn to Kali: Text: Verse 20","type":"page"}