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The Five Limbs of Bala Tripura Sundari
The Five Limbs of Bala Tripura Sundari
Bala Patala
Seated on Kailasa Summit is Bhagavan, spouse of Uma, the God
with a crescent Moon as His diadem, whose eyes are Sun, Moon
and Fire, wearing an elephant skin, mighty, worshipped by the
Gods, bowed to by hosts of Gandharvas, mighty Yakshas, and by
gods and demons.
One should do (six fold) Nyasa on the head, on the mouth, in the
heart, on the feet, on the navel lotus and in all the limbs, O Devi.
One should invoke Devi and worship Her with the ritual
accessories according to the rules. Having invoked the desired
Devi in the centre of the yoni, one should worship in the
triangle, in a similar way Sexual Love (Rati) on the left,
Pleasure (Priti) on the right, and Mind-Born (Manobhava) at
the apex. One should worship the six Limbs inside the yoni (i.e.
central triangle) starting from the South East.
Outside the central yoni one should worship, from the East, in a
clockwise direction, the Arrow-Devis. In the eight yoni-triangles
one should worship the eight Shaktis called Beautiful Bhaga
(Bhaga=female sexual organ), Bhaga, Nectar of Bhaga, Bhaga
adorned with Flowers, Primordial Sexual Pleasure, The Flower
of Sex, the Girdle of Sex, the Bliss of Sexual Love - these are the
eight Shaktis.
(1) On the first day of the Waxing Moon, Devi, having bathed
and done the daily rite, one should go to a deserted place at
midday. There one should do sacrifice by a 10th part using ghee,
curd and so forth. One should do oblation to the Goddess, then
immediately one is free to paralyse, this is certain.
(5) Dearest, on a ninth day the ritualist, having bathed and done
the daily rite, should offer much ghee, fish, eggs, lotus, pearls,
and hair of deer. Doing sacrifice in this way, O Lady of Heroes,
one is able to make people slaves.
(8) On a great eighth day (of the dark Lunar fortnight) a person1
having bathed, should do sadhana on the best of pedestals. The
hero should recite (the mantra) 10,000 times and should sacrifice
a 10th part of that, giving ghee, camphor, grapes, many betel
leaves, goat flesh and blood. Then one causes healing to occur.
Now I will declare the Paddhati in its spoken form - the essence
of Shri Bala Tripureshvari, the Giver of Happiness. Having
done morning acts those who are devoted should worship Devi.
This puja is fruitless for those impure at the Three (Twilights).
Extending from the base of the spine to the top of the head, like
a lotus stem, a brilliant, white, slender thread, one should
meditate on Devi, Giver of Subjugation, Great Good Fortune and
Eloquence; as surrounded by a swarm of black bees; with braided
hair garlanded with flowers; with a face marked with a jewel as
her forehead mark; her mouth sweetly smiling, wearing a
beautiful diadem; her head adorned with pearls and diamonds;
with a slender crescent Moon as crest gem; her three bright eyes
effulgent as a swarm of sapphire bees; with jewelled coiled
earrings, the chief of which is as bright as the Sun: ornamented
with shining pearls and gems of dazzling appearance; around
her throat a necklace like a line of bees, beautiful and
bedazzling, surpassing nectar in its beauty; adorned with
beautiful and resplendent garments like the white water of the
Ganga in flood; beautiful, sinuous graceful limbs, scented and
sweet like creeping vines; covered in gold and by other precious
metals, and by glistening jewels, glittering and bright; her
beautiful feet and toes like red lotuses with their petals; as bright
as the circle of the starry realm (Nakshatras); adorned with
pearl-like blossoms; with her lower left hand holding a book and
her upper right hand dispelling the fears of sadhakas; in her two
right hands holding a rosary and bestowing boons; She herself
being of the dazzling whiteness of snow, milk or the Moon;
gracious and charming.
Face like the Disc of the Moon. With a Beautiful Crest Gem like
a Little Moon. Having a Vermilion Forehead Mark. Her Lovely
Braided Hair adorned with Flowers.
Lotus-Eyed One. One Gazing Long. Clear Eyed One. Flow of Love.
Taste. [100] Chief One. Essence Body.
Dwelling in the Red and Blue Lotus. Smeared with Red and
Adorned with Red Gems. Wearing a Pure Red Rosary. With a
Very Beautiful Peacock Feather Crest aim. Satisfied by Kings.
Waving Peacock Plumes. Perfume Diffusing in the Cosmos.
Earth. Fragrance. Giver of Sexual Love. Beloved. Giving Success
in Love to Those Seeking Love.
Cry of Orgasm. Self of all Love Play. Life of the Gods. Bliss of
Svayambhu Menses. Fond of Svayambhu Menses. Pleased and
Satisfied by Svayambhu Menses. Cause of Creation of the
Beautiful Svayambhu Menses. Place of Svayambhu Menses.
Shakti Hole. All Love Dalliance is Her True and Sacred
Pedestal.
The Diffusion of Shanta and Bodha Kalas. The Kala and Inner
Essence of the Highest Knowledge. Pashyanti. Supreme
Quintessence. The Inner Atma without Parts Known as Akula.
Madhyama. Vaikhari. The Bliss of Atma Kala. Dweller in
Kalas. Tarini. Swift One (Tarani). Tara. Knower of the Inner
Core Dissolved in the Shiva Linga.
Own Lady. Vision of Shakti. Seed of the Sun. Having the Body of
Brahma. Having the Body of Shiva. Having the Body of Vishnu.
Residing in the Wheel of Creation. Having the Body of the Sun.
Dissolved in the Chakra of Places. Having the Body of Mercury.
Mahatripurasundari.
If one should perform the yoga continually for six months, one
becomes the (very essence of) Yogamaya, without question.
Whosoever reads this ultimate hymn whilst meditating on
Kamakala has women in a state of subjugation seeking him,
intoxicated with sexual desire, beautiful, mad with lust, with
beautiful enraptured eyes. He knows satiety of love through
feminine desire, in this act of subjugation.
O Sundari, one should never give this to those who are not pupils,
the impure, fraudulent, indolent, who make no efforts, the
undevoted, those deficient of Vishnu bhakti, the unstable or the
stupid. It should be given to those who are devoted, as it is the
cause of liberation, and augments devotion. O Varanana, whilst
engaging in sexual intercourse (Latayoga), one may read the
hymn. One becomes like the Aeon Creeper (Kalpalata), and the
fruit of one's desires are achieved.
(Meditation:)
Like the coloured red rays of the Sun shining brightly through
red dust, the colour of the Japa rose, holding book, dispelling
fear, and in Her other hands giving boons and holding a fully
blossomed white water lotus. Thus one should establish in one's
heart the eternally beautiful form Bala.
Within the course of one day, one should recite the King of Your
Mantras known as the triple syllable Kamaraja, that of
Kameshvari. The person initiated in Kula should worship the
earthly and most beautiful and alluring courtesan.