गान्धर्व तन्त्र (शैव-शाक्त आगम - मन्त्र-रहस्य, यन्त्र एवं देवतोपासना सटीक)

Meditation on Kundalinī, which constitutes the inner
worship, helps the practioner to acquire freedom from
all sins
12TH CHAPTER.
In the 12th Patala the mental offering of worship
and the mental approach to and unification with Mahātri-
purasundari are at length described. In the first, the pract-
itioner is to sit on the prescribed Āsana keeping his body
quite erect and, with the hands full of red flowers placed
near the heart, close the eyes and, feeling as it were the
august presence of Mahātripurasundarī in the heart, offer
worship to her with the mental sixteen requisites of worship
The Yogīs and sages have a recourse to this worship only
In the second i e the Dhyānayoga, the practioner
has to select a solitary place and seat himself in a particular
posture with all his mental operations brought under control
He should feel oneness with the Transcendental Self through
absolute introspection In order to rise to that plane of con-
sciousness he has to immerge the different elements of
which the world is composed in the causeless cause The
order in which these evolutes are absorbed from the
following into the preceding is given as follows:
The earth element merges in the water, water in
the fire, fire in the air, air in the ether, ether in the
mind, mind in the ego, ego in the manifest, the manifest
matter in the unmanifest and the unmanifest in the
Supreme Self