कामिक आगम: पूर्व भाग (अष्टाविंशति मूल शैव आगमों का प्रथम एवं सर्वोच्च आगम महाकोश)

It should be known by the sadhakas and by those who have exact knowledge of the tattvas that
these fifty matruka-letters are associated with fifty different Rudras and fifty different Saktis.
O, the twice-born Sages! the elaborate details of these Rudras and Saktis will be told to you
later under the context of the description of the varna-adhva.
ऋषय ऊचुः-
भगवन् प्राणिनो लोके क्षीणसत्वाचिरायुषः॥ १२
लोभमोह महामान रागद्वेषादिभिर्युताः।
तेषां योग्यमशक्तानां शक्तानां च यथा तथा॥ १३
बहुधा मन्त्रसद्भावो वक्तव्यः करुणानिधे।
ṛṣaya ūcuḥ-
bhagavan prāṇino loke kṣīṇasatvācirāyuṣaḥ|| 12
lobhamoha mahāmāna rāgadveṣādibhiryutāḥ|
teṣāṁ yogyamaśaktānāṁ śaktānāṁ ca yathā tathā|| 13
bahudhā mantrasadbhāvo vaktavyaḥ karuṇānidhe|
The Sages:
O, Lord !, in this world, all the beings are with decaying good qualities and short duration of
life. They are associated with covetousness, delusion, increased conceit, attachment, enmity
and other such vices. O, the possessor of abounding grace!, the powerful emergence of mantras
which is taking place in manifold ways is to be explained exactly by you now as applicable to
those who are capable of doing the mantra-sadhana and those who are not able to accomplish this
sadhana.
ईश्वर उवाच--
येन येन प्रकारेण सुखोपायो भवेन्नृणाम्॥ १४
तेन तेन प्रकारेण कथयामि समासतः।
īśvara uvāca-
yena yena prakāreṇa sukhopāyo bhavennṛṇām|| 14
tena tena prakāreṇa kathayāmi samāsataḥ|