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

subtle The gross form is visible in females and the subtle
in the Kundalinī It is, therefore, commanded that the fe-
males should not be subjected to any cold treatment such
as beating etc. Worship of the subtle form is conducted
through the Kundalinī Yoga.
38th CHAPTER.
In this Śiva says that the Devī feels satisfied not so
much with the mental worship as with the physical · In
accounting for the same it is said how she was once
praised by Brahma and how she being pleased conferred
on the Trinity, Brahma, Vishnu and Śiva, their respective
powers - creation, sustainment and destruction and how she
was born first as Satī and then as Pārvatī and how she
advised Śiva to marry her as a Vīra and how he praised
her expressnig that all his eight forms were really her
own manifestations and at the end how she appeared before
Śiva in the form of the Universe
The reader is here to see for himself how much
the Tantra has borrowed from the Durgā - saptaśatī and the
Bhagavadgītā
39th CHAPTER
This chapter sets forth that spirit and matter are the
two eternal principles The former is represented by the