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O Mother, that very Shambhu (Shiva

) who perennially by virtue of

Thee (His Shakti)

is able to

comprehen, by virtue of Thee is able to create, an

by virtue of Thee is able to esire, when in the

state of harmony (i!e! when not isturbe by this th

ree"fol activity)

attains to the

sky"like Supreme

State (of #niversal $onsciousness)!

%n this manner, by iscarin& th

e creative or the illuminative

state Thou ost sport with Him (i!e! chan&e His

state accorin& to Thy pleasure)! (O 'oess) why

is it so

0!

That which has &one before, that which is to come after, that which is within

an that without, the

unboune an the limite, the most &ross an th

e most subtle, the manifeste an the

unmanifeste, the open an

the secret, the near an the istan

t, bein& an non"be



in&, in these an

other forms Thou, (O 'oess), art pe

rennially seen as the #niverse!

%t is the movement (creative

activity) born of Thee at Thy comman which brin&s

the (in*nitely varie) $osmos into bein&!

1!

+ust as the rays of li&ht risin& from the sun, as th

e &leamin& sparks risin& from a *re, as the rops of

spray forme by obstructe waves risin& from the mi

&hty ocean, (are reabsorbe in their source), in

the same way, the multitue of elements risin&

an risin& a&ain with their own essential

(constituent) &roups are help

lessly force to fall back

into stillness in Thee!

!

Thou are -rahma (the $reator), .ishnu (the /r

eserver) an Thou art matter, the emboie Soul,

e&o"consciousness, the Moon, the Sun, ature (of

thin&s), the or of

+ains (Mahavira), the

illumine sa&e (-uha), sky, air, also Shiva an

Shakti! -y these i2erent names, O 'oess,

Thou art hear of an calle by the ri&hteous!

!



The fortunate (seekers) who, by virt

ue of the Mercy inherent in T

hy nature an (the favor of) a

iscernin& preceptor, enterin& their own /ath (S

ushumna), are able to cleave the enshrouin&

arkness of the si3 routes (i!e! th

e illusory e3ternal worl create

by the *ve senses an the min),

at once know Thee irectly unto the last ay as their own (inwellin&)

illustrious 4ur&a in the form

of incomputable $ompassion an Supreme bliss who

maketh the boy also ausp

icious, (so that it is

able to sustain the 5ame of Super"$onsciousness lit up by Thee)!

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O Mi&hty 'oess, Thou art Shiva, Thou art Shakti,

Thou the 7stablishe 4o

ctrines, Thou the soul,

Thou the initiation, Thou this (m

anifeste universe), Thou the Sihi

s (psychic &ifts), like 8nima

an the rest (i!e! all the ei&ht Si

his possible to yo&is)

, Thou the a&&re&ate of

'unas (Sattva, 9a:as

an Tamas), Thou knowle&e an also i&norance! Thou (verily) art all an

what is beyon it! ;hat



Tattva (element) there is (O 'oe

ss) which is apart an i2erent

from Thee, we o not perceive!

<!

O Mother, even after attainin& the e3cellent Shiv

a, as the &racious /rece

ptor an winnin& to the

orer of Shiva"$onsciousness, at the en of th

e cycle of births, resultin& from the cessation of

=arma, earne in uncountable inca

rnations in the past % may, O '

oess, while wearin& this boy,

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spen the ays of my life in comm

union with Thee, in sin&in& Thy praises an in performin& acts of

worship to Thee!

>!

%n that bloomin& lotus of si3 petals (Svaishthana)

of which the ?oni (the place of &eneration) is

known as the =arnika (arrow"like), an in the mile

of that ?oni there is

seen a /eestal in the

form of 8umkara (trian&le), an in

the interior of that (/eestal)

lies coile (=unalini), the Mother

of all $reation, ark"blue in



color, bent with the wei&ht of He

r two breasts, who is the ob:ect of

unremittin& evotion in my heart!

@!

O Thou $reatri3 of the Three ;orls

who, althou&h (in reality) One, ar

t yet (ivie) in ei&ht forms

as the ener&y in earth, water, *

re, air, ether, sun, moon an the

performer of the sacri*ce (the

emboie Soul), bent with the wei&ht of Thy bo

som, yet still sustainin& the #niverse, may Thou

protect me as that (Thy protection) is

(in truth) inispensable (for me)!

A!

8bout the 8uthor

;ritin& with the authority of more than forty"*

ve years of continuous e3perience of hi&her

conscious states, 'O/% =9%SH8 ha

s provie the worl with a literal treasure of writin&s an

iscourses on the vast sub:ects of consciousness a

n evolution! 4urin& the la

st twenty years of his

life, 'opi =rishna evote his en

er&ies to presentin& the worl w



ith his ieas about the present

worl conition an the future evolution of the hum

an race! -y the time he passe away in +uly

1BA6 at the a&e of A1, he was acclaime as a l

eain& authority on the sc

ience of =unalini an

$onsciousness 9esearch!

'opi =rishnaCs Duest was to brin& awareness a

n unerstanin& of the an&erous situation that

mankin is in at present! He believe that the race

is in a continuin& state

of evolution, but has now

reache a crucial sta&e in this evelopment! Manki

n is on the ver&e of a &iant leap towar hi&her

states of consciousness but at the same time

has the knowle&e an means to estroy himself an

the planet at the push of a button!

He asserts that there are 4ivine aws which ar

e rulin& our pro&ress! The time has now come for

mankin to unerstan these inviolable aws an

learn to live in harmony with his fellow human

bein&s so that our evolution may procee in a healthy way!

Other -ooks by the 8uthor in #-S/4

1! =unalini E The Secret of ?o&a

! The /urpose of ?o&a

! The 7volution of Hi&her $onsciousness



6! Three /erspectives of =unalini

<! The ;oner of the -rain

>! The 4ivine /ossibilities in Man

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The only other work in the whole &amut of Shakti Sh

astra in %nia comparable to /anchastavi is the

famous work, known as

Saunarya ahari,



attribute by some scholars to the far"fame mystic"

philosopher Shankaracharya who, it is sai, 5our

ishe in the Ath century 8!4! The issue of

authorship of the sai work has not been *nally

settle yet an the position is conteste by other

writers! Saunarya ahari is ivie into two parts!

The *rst part, known as 8nana ahari, or the

;ave of -liss, consists of 61 verses an the

secon, which is of > verses, is known as Saunarya

ahari proper, meanin& the ;ave

of -eauty! The two to&e

ther make a total of

10 slokas! There is

con5ict of views about the number of verses als

o! The esteem an importance in which this book

has been hel can be reaily assesse from th

e fact that no less than thirty"si3 well"known

commentaries have been written

on it, an almost every syllabl

e has been mae the theme of

len&thy iscussions by the learne commentators!

The commentaries, thou&h not raica

lly i2erent from one another,

often present iver&ent views

an theories an attempt iverse in

terpretations of the hymns in k



eepin& with them! Shankaracharya

is sai to have base 8nana

ahari on another famous work,

Subha&oaya,

ascribe to the &uru of

his &uru, known by the name of 'auapaa! %t is, in

fact, consiere to be only an e3tension of the

latter! This little etail has been &iven to show

the close kinship

between the philoso

phy of .eanta,

as e3poune by Shankara, an Shri

.iya or the octrine of $osmic 7ner&y which forms the basis

of the Tantric traition!

There are strikin& similarities between /ancha

stavi an Saunarya ahari

! Some of the views

e3presse are ientical an even the e3pression is

, at places, somewhat si

milar! The wealth of

knowle&e an the epth of observation isplaye, co

mbine with the beauty

of poetic e3pression

an the use of appropriate wors an phrases, are so remarkable that it is no

woner that the

authorship of Saunarya ahari,

at least, has been attribute



to or Shiva Himself, an

Shankaracharya is sai to have been only the

Mantra"rashta

or

9ishi,

which means the work was

reveale to him!

The same revelational ori&in can

be ascribe to /anchastavi als

o! %ts authorship is shroue in

mystery, but there can be no oubt that it is the in

spire composition of a yo&i who ha reache the

hi&hest sta&e of realiLation! The

work has been cite as a source

book by several eminent scholars

of =ashmir, but the name of the author has al

ways remaine unisclose! ;ithout revealin& his

ientity, the author has referre to himself in very

humble terms in some of the verses an in one

e*nitely acknowle&e his unrepayabl

e ebt to the 'oess for all th

e blessin&s of this worl that

ha enriche his life!

$ommentin& on the authorship an ate of compositi

on of /anchastavi, /rofessor =!! 4har writesG

%n some manuscripts in the =ashmir 'overnment



9esearch ibrary the name of the author has

been &iven as a&havacharya an

in some as 8charya /rithvihara, a isciple of Shambunatha! %n

one manuscript the name of the poet has been

written as Shri 9amchanracharya! =ashmiri

traition even ascribes the work

to 8bhinava&upta! %n verses

from /anchastavi Duote by the

commentators of

.iyarnava

an

Saubha&ya 9atnakara

the author has been mentione as

4harmacharya! ityanana, the commentator of

Tripura"Mahima"Stotra,

corroborates this view! %n

our own time, Harabhatta Shastri has also taken 4h

armacharya to be the au

thor of /anchastavi!

The very fact that there is no unanimity of opini

on about the authorship of

/anchastavi lens to the

conclusion that actually the author himself chose to

remain anonymous! The last verse of the *rst

chapter seems to subscribe to this view! The use of

la&hustvatmani









their color, number of petals, the letters of

the alphabet shown on each petal an other accessories,

as also on the nature of the 4ivine 7ner&y itself!

She has to be fancie like a 5ash of li&htnin&, with

the brilliance of thousans of s

uns, pourin& into the brain with the

milky"white lustre of the moon,

assumin& iver&ent colors at i2erent places, as fo

r instance, the hues of a rainbow in the forehea,

the raiance of the sun in the

heart, appearin& like a vermilion"colore lotus *bre on Her passa&e

throu&h the innermost sheath

(-rahma"nai)

of the spinal cor! The practitioner has also to

concentrate on the souns that occur on the arousa

l of the /ower, like the music mae by a swarm

of bees in 5i&ht or a istant waterfall, a conch,

a murmurin& stream, far"o2 tinklin& of bells or an

enlessly prolon&e nasal C8umC!

%n this a&e of li&htnin& spee

an ieas of easy achievement applie to almost all unertakin&s,

incluin& even enli&htenment, it is e3tremely iNcu

lt to ima&ine the life of an anchorite who set

himself to the formiable task of arousin& the Serpent /ower in the past! 4ay

an ni&ht, with only

brief intervals for meals an other basic necessiti

es of life, he consecrate himself in lonely



hermita&es an ashrams to the en

terprise, uner&oin& various prac

tices an isciplines, some of

them e3tremely an&erous an pain

ful, without any thou&ht to the

worl, to boily in:ury, mental

eran&ement or even eath! ?ears an even the w

hole life passe in this way, with this one aim

before his mental horiLon, ini2ere

nt to the boy an physical comf

ort, until his prime was spent

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without in the least realiLin& th

e ream! This happens even now a

n millions of ascetics in %nia

pass lives of e3treme austerity an har labor to th

e en without ever attain

in& the beati*c state!

Since the awakenin& of the /ower epens on a host of

biolo&ical factors, one

of the most important

of which is favorable hereity, it can be safely as

sume that a lar&e proportion of the aspirants have

to rest content either with boily sensations,

resemblin& those of the actual awakenin&, ranom

5ashes of li&ht, or ream"like vi



sionary e3periences, partly real

an partly ima&inary, evoke by

their constant preoccupa

tion with the sub:ect!

;e see this actually ha

ppenin& in the case of contemporary

seekers who evote themselves to

various reli&ious practices an isciplines in

our own time! 8mon& the millions upon millions of

people who take to various kins of ?o&a or

other meitational practic

es, there is a &eneral

tenency to attach an e3a&&erate importance to the

sub:ective si&ns as, for instance, 5ashes of li&ht

before the eyes, souns in the ears or sensa

tions felt in various pa

rts of the boy, uner the

impression that they are the harbin&ers of success

in the unertakin&! This sort of wishful thinkin&

has, not unoften, the very reverse e2ect of en

lar&in& the e&o an inculcatin& ieas of self"

importance! The only sure si&ns

of enli&htene consciousness ar

e inner illumina

tion, inspire

thou&ht an iction, abounin& love, humility an



an altere perception of the ob:ective worl!

The reason for this commonly"met,

erroneous frame of min is that the biolo&ical aspect of the

isciplines is often entirely overlooke! Once the ps

ychosomatic nature of the /ower 9eservoir of

=unalini is clearly unerstoo, the

whole concept of reli&ion an th

e transcenental will uner&o a

raical chan&e, an all the si&ns an symptoms that

atten the practice of ?

o&a or other reli&ious

isciplines will be evaluate in the conte3t of

their biolo&ical impact on the or&anism an not

merely on the basis of the sub:ective performance!

;hat the author of /anchastavi ascribes to the

Shakti is the everyay e3perience of the accomplis

he yo&i! The same e3perience, with minor

variations, is repeate in hunres, even thousans

, of inspire compositions of the illuminati of

%nia born in i2erent

parts of the country!

=unalini in Other $ultures

The mechanism of the human boy is so constitute

that the iniviual has no control over its

involuntary or autonomous functions

an is often as unconcerne about



what transpires in his own

interior as he is of what happens

in the bowels of the earth! Sometim

es the in*nitely varie activity

of his mortal frame E the 5ow of bloo, the pump

in& of the heart, the workin& of the stomach,

liver or the intestines E is sharply brou&ht to hi

s notice in an attack of illness, when somethin&

&oes wron& in the system, an he writhes in pain un

til normalcy is restore an a li is roppe over

these isturbances a&ain! This happens somewhat in

the same way as an earthDuake brin&s the ever"

5uctuatin& nature of the *ery inte

rior of the earth to our

notice now an then to be for&otten as soon

as the tremors are over! ;e

have no knowle&e whatsoever how the 5ame of our surface

consciousness with all its iniviua

lity, e3tensive memory an intellect

ual acumen is kept ali&ht by

the combine activity of our or&a

ns an cells an what increibly

accurate mechanism maintains

the e3tremely elicate balance of hormones an ot

her comple3 chemical compouns in our system!

The comple3ity of the boy an the intricate nature



of each part, or&an, &la

n an their tissues efy

escription! The harmonious way in which countle

ss millions of i2erently constitute cells an

hunres of or&ans an their parts work to&ether

, as one harmonious whol

e, is a miracle of

eNciency an orer! The brain is

the most marvelous part of this

intricate machine, full of woner

from the sin&le cell to the most comple3 or&aniLa

tion containe in it! Our intelli&ence can no more

realiLe the immensity of the brain than the e3tent of

the siereal universe, says 4r! 8le3is $arrell!

The cerebral substance contains more than tw

elve thousan millions of cells! These cells are

connecte with one another by *brils, an each *br

il possesses several bran

ches! -y means of these

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*brils they associate several billions of times!

8n this crow of tiny

iniviuals an invisible

*brils, espite its unreame"of comple3ity, works

as if it were essentially one! To observers

accustome to the simplicity of the molecular an atomic worls, the brain

appears as an



unintelli&ible an marvelous phenomenon!

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%n a elicate machine so intricat

e an sensitive as the human boy, in

the whole as also in all its

components, how can all the supernormal an biLa

rre phenomena, associate with =unalini, occur

without rastically chan&i

n& its rhythm or causin& isorer in

its normal workin& in one way or the

other The point to be remembere

here is that the awakenin& of

=unalini is an activity for which

a provision alreay e3ists

in the human frame, in the same wa

y as there e3ists a provision in the

boy of a woman for conception a

n the bearin& of a chil! Howe

ver stran&e or biLarre the

manifestations mi&ht be they are then the o

2shoots of a evelopment for which the or&anism

alreay stans eDuippe, as a resu

lt of natural processes about which we are still in the ark! -ut if

no such provision e3ists, an the boy is force to

a type of activity for wh

ich there is no sanction





voices hear, the :oy e3perience, the knowle&e

&aine, the wisom acDuire an th

e contact with 4ivinity e3perien

ceE are all purely mental or

spiritual occurrences without any re

lation to the physical frame of ma

n! %n such a case the ob:ective

veri*cation of the phenomenon can never be

possible an the investi&at

ors will always continue

to be in oubt about

whether the conition is

purely ima&inary an elusive or si

&ni*es the supersensory perception

of a 9eality that we have no

other means to know!

This is not all! %f the e3peri

ences uner&one in the new, altere

state of consciousness cause no

reaction in the brain an no impact on the boy, it woul mean that the

conition is merely an

arti*cial state brou&ht about by our

own e2orts an not a natural

tar&et for which there alreay

e3ists a provision in the psyc

hosomatic enowment of human bein&s! Then the octrine of

reincarnation loses its purpose an the ieas of ivi



nity associate with such e3periences all their

wei&ht! Then there will also arise the Duestion whet

her the practices an isc

iplines of the kin that

lea to this e3traorinar

y sub:ective state an, in fact, the whole

sphere of reli&ion itself, are at all

conucive to human welfare! -ecause if the e3

perience has no natural sanction behin it on account

of its total issociation with biolo&ical factors

an the normal mental conition of man, how can we

know that it woul not have an unnatural an unhea

lthy e2ect in the lon& r

un both on the iniviual

an the race

There is no oubt that in one form

or the other the secret of =

unalini was known in many parts of

the worl even in prehistoric times! There are un

mistakable inications to show that the basic

principles of Tantric ?o&a must have been known

to the populations of the %nus .alley civiliLation

which 5ourishe from about ,000 to 1,<00 -!$! The

hi&h &rae of civiliLation reache, with its

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planne towns, broa, re&ularly al



i&ne streets, public wells, lampposts, sentry bo3es, elaborate

raina&e systems, spacious public baths, vast &ran

aries, pillare halls, be

autifully painte pottery,

hi&h"class furniture, hi&h"Duality

weapons an implements of bron

Le an copper, artistically mae

toys for the chilren, :ewelry an ornaments, an

accurate wei&hts an meas

ures, all testify to a

stanar of livin& almost as hi&h

as of the still evel

opin& countries in moe

rn times! -ullock carts

in use then, more than 6,<00 years a&o, still ply w

ith but little chan&e in esi&n in many parts of

%nia toay!

%t is not, therefore, surprisin& th

at people with such a sophisticate

urban life, persistin& for no less

than 1,<00 years, shoul be eeply in

tereste in the mystery of life a

n eath! %t can we

ll be that in

their arent search for an answer

to the rile they mi&ht have st



umble on the secret of =unalini

or learnt it from an anterior

civiliLation! ;hen we once ivest

reli&ion an reli&ious e3perience

from the supernatural an miraculous an treat

it as an inherent impulse in the psychosomatic

or&anism of man, rawin& him towar

s a hi&her life of the spirit, we then also have to amit that the

sai impulse must &ather in stren&th an lea to

intense e2orts to solve the mystery every time,

when the ecolo&ical factors are favo

rable to its &rowth! %t is a &r

eat error to unerv

alue the &reat

contribution of the ancient worl to

the science of life! ;hat is n

eee is a knowle&e

of the key to

the reli&ious hiero&lyphics of the

past! ;hen this key, lost in the

labyrinth of mysteries, ma&ic an

alchemy is foun, it will not be iNcult to *n the

central path which, by turnin& an twistin& upon

itself, has forme a bain& maLe an now appears impossible to pick out!

One of the most remarkable *ns of the %nus .a

lley civiliLation is a seal





an also small stones representative

of the female or&an of &eneration, or

yonis!

;e have thus no oubt that the cu

lt of =unalini, with

its emphasis on the male an female or&ans

of &eneration, an their symbolic

representation, both in the outer

an inner moes of worship, was

known to the eniLens of the %nus .alley! %t is also

very possible that the

evolution of their hi&h

Duality of civiliLation mi&ht have been ue, to a

lar&e e3tent, to the voluntary cultivation of hi&her

mental faculties by the arousal

of =unalini amon& the spiritual

hierarchy that ominate the

populations! ;ith the ecipherment of the obscure scri

pt a 5oo of li&ht is likely to be thrown on

the reli&ious beliefs an practic

es of these people which will br

in& interestin& facts about the

Serpent /ower known to them to the forefront! -r

oaly speakin&, from the material provie by the

seals an other relics, there can ha

rly be any ispute about the fact





&y, tricklin& out throu&h

the &as balls, reache the surface an was raiate

into space! The &as ball ha turne on! The *rst

star was forme! There was li&ht! -ut since there we

re no planets to receive

the li&ht, there were no

life forms to amire the bran"new raiance of

the heavens !!!! The conversion of hyro&en to

helium coul not continue ine*nitely! ;hen all

the hyro&en was consume, the *res of the stars

collapse! Temperatures &ot so hi&h the

helium atoms themselves became fuel!

Helium was converte to carbon,

carbon to o3y&en, an ma&nesium, o3y&en to neon, ma&nesium to

silicon, silicon to sulfur ! ! !

an upwar throu&h the litany of the

perioic table E a

massive stellar

alchemy !!!! 8s these stars forme, smaller conens

ations forme near them E they were ense

little clots, comparatively col an slow to ta

ke shape! These unpreposse

ssin& clumps of stellar

matter became the planets!

4escribin& the birth an evolution of life he

saiG "8fter a time the oceans achieve the



consistency of a warm ilute broth! 8mon& all the comple3 or&anic molecules

formin& an

issipatin& in the broth, there one

ay arose a molecule able cr

uely to make copies! 8 self"

replicatin& molecule !!!! Se3 an e

ath, the two &reat accelerators of

the rate of natural selection,

evolve! Some of the or&anisms sub:ect to se3 a

n eath evolve har parts an climbe onto an

survive on the lan! li&ht evolve! 7normous

four"le&&e beasts thun

ere across the steamin&

:un&les! Small beasts emer&e, born alive, instea

of in har"shelle cont

ainers! They survive

throu&h swiftness an runnin& an

postpartum knowle&e erive from

parents an e3perience !!!!

8n then came a creature whose &enetic material

was in no way i2erent from the self"replicatin&

molecular collectives of any of the other or&ani

sms on this planet, which he calle 7arth! -ut he

was able to poner the myst

ery of his ori&ins, the

stran&e an tortuous path

by which he ha come



from star"stu2! He was the matter of the cosmos contemplatin& himself! ! !

1B

% am not concerne with the issue

of whether the C-i& -an&C theory

correctly e3plains the formation

of stars an planets! There are astronomers who o

not subscribe to this view an there are eminent

biolo&ists who have other ieas on

the evolution of life! or instan

ce, 4r! +!.! arikar, another

note cosmolo&ist, Duestions the

valiity of the -i& -an& theory

on the &roun that there is too

much scatter in the ata on an&ular

siLes (for raio sources) to

:ustify an uneDuivocal conclusion!

To be able to assert, he says, that there was a bi

& ban& the astronomer must be able to look back in

time to the epoch close to the bi& ban&! -ut none

of the e3istin& surveys has one that! Therefore

the conclusion that the universe be&an with a ban&

is Duestionable since it implies the e3trapolation

of what we observe to limits well be

yon the present ran&e of our telescopes!

%n the wors of 4r! ;alter -a

ne, another repute astronomer, th





whole colossal 4rama of $reation! ;e are prone to

err in our assessment of the power of min as

we cannot conceive of an 8lmi&hty, Omniscie

nt an Omnipresent Min whose mere creative

@

The repeate reference to the charmin& contour

s of the 'oess, for one brou&ht up in the

puritanical traition of any reli&i

on, must seem out of place in a wo

rk like /anchastavi, venerate

almost as a scripture! There are freDuent allusions to Her lar&e, massive or

bul&in& breasts, Her

lotus"like lovely bewitchi

n& eyes, Her beautiful waist, Her love

ly form like the orb of the moon an

to Her other seuctive charms! Sa

unarya ahari is even more pro

li*c in the escription of Her

beauty! Most of the si3ty"two verses comprisin& th

e ;ave of -eauty are e

vote to the meticulous

escription of Her charms

with all the power of the authorCs poetic &enius!

7very feature an every limb of th

e 'oess is seuctively epict

e! Her eyes, soft with love,

rin&e with feather"like eyelashes



cause isturbance in the profoun me

ntal placiity of Shiva! The

arche pair of ri&es (between Her eyes an ears)

has the &race of the bow of the 5ower"arrowe

'o of ove! Her lips are of the color of coral, i

sclosin& two beautiful rows of teeth, Her ton&ue is

the color of :apa 5ower, Her voice

is meloious, Her chin is matchl

ess, raise often by or Shiva

to implant a kiss! Her hans are like lotus ye re

, with lustrous *n&ernails, Her arms are like

creepers, Her breasts like containers, chis

ele out of ruby, an *lle with nectar!

Her beautiful waist has three fols, thou&h slener ye

t supportin& the two breasts

so lar&e that they

burst the &arment coverin& their

sies an rub a&ainst the armpits

! Her hips are broa an heavy,

Her thi&hs are like the trunks of lorly elepha

nts, Her knees roune an Her feet ravishin&ly

beautiful! The poet sums up Her overall beauty in one

stanLa at the enG " The transcenent 8runa,

ShivaCs &race incarnate, curly in Her hair, artless in Her &entle smile, Shirisha"

like in Her frame,

har like stone in the re&ion of

Her breasts, e3tremely thin in



Her waist, an proi&ious in the

re&ion of Her hips, e3cels in Her &lory for the welfare of the worl!

-ut why shoul /anchastavi well so arently on

the beauty of the 'oess an Saunarya ahari

enter into such meticulous etail about Her bewitc

hin& an entrancin& charms The answer to this

lies in the very names assi&ne to the two sections

of the latter work, to wit the ;ave of -liss an

the ;ave of -eauty! -liss an -eau

ty are the two most prominent at

tributes of Shakti or =unalini!

-liss an -eauty are also the two most outs

tanin& features of Sh

iva"$onsciousness! The

entrancin& lustre in the hea of

the yo&i, coverin& everythin& he pe

rceives with a mantle of li&ht,

permeate with a concentrate :oy which surpasse

s every pleasure of the

earth, bubblin& up from

the eepest epths of his bein&,

transforms the normal human consci

ousness into an ocean of life,

love an happiness that is impossible to escri

be! The inner man is chan&e! His consciousness

itself now becomes the para&on of beauty, &race,











in more etail elsewhere! SuNce it to say here that

the ultimate aim of all worship, prayer, ?o&a or

any other reli&ious iscipline is to reach that su

blime state of #nion or Mystical $onsciousness

which is the raiatin& center of al

l that is pure, true, b

eautiful an harmonious

in the #niverse! This

is the reason for the iea e3presse by 8bhinava 'upta in the

Tantraloka

that the state of

homo&eneity prouce in the min throu&h the absorbin&

interest of pleasurable sensations of si&ht,

soun an touch leas one to the realiLation of th

e ultimate motionless nature of the Self, an the

bliss that is erive from such e

3perience is but a playful manifesta

tion of the blissful

nature of the

#ltimate -ein&!

6

This is the reason why our author,

lookin& at the issue from another

plane of consciousness, has not

hesitate to elineate the superb charms of

the 'oess! or the evotees of Shakti, the



contemplation of beauty must be cultivate with

the purest ob:ective of reversin& the irection of

the reprouctive mechanism, utiliLin& the precious

ener&y not for momentary libiinous pleasure

but for the much more elevatin& an much mo

re entrancin& transforma

tion of the brain! The

consciousness of the evotee himself then becomes

the seat of a bliss which e3cels by far all the

pleasures erive from the senses an even the ravi

shin& transport e3perience

in the play of love!

@<

'reat men who, with their mins bereft of impu

rity an illusion, says Saunarya ahari, look on

Thy =ala (i!e!, the $hanra"=ala

when =unalini enters the Sus

humna) slener as a streak of

li&htnin&, of the essence of the Sun, Moon an ire

an abiin& in the &rea

t forest of lotuses,

stanin& far above even the si3 lotuses (cha

kras), erive a 5oo of in*nite -liss!

The repeate allusion to lar&e an heavy breasts

has another esoteric si&ni*cance also! emale

breasts are the receptacles of milk on which the



human infant is nourishe! Their lar&e an massive

siLe inicates a &enerous supply

of the nourishin& bevera&e! %n th

e evolutionary scale the human

ault of toay is still an infant

that has to &row to maturity

with the attainment of $osmic

$onsciousness! %n this process of &rowth, that ma

y take aeons to accomplish, he is to be fe on the

ambrosial stream supplie by =unalini to enhan

ce the capacity of the brain! This nectarean

substance, which 5oos the cranium in a lavi

sh measure on the arousal of the power, is

symbolically compare to milk!

The traitional representation showin& or .ishnu reclinin& on Shesha"na&a,

5oatin& on an ocean

of milk, is a symbolic renerin& of this concept!

The boy is an ocean of milk in which the 5oatin&

Serpent of =unalini e3tracts the li

fe essences from all the tissues

an or&ans to fee the stream

which, when it 5ows ownwar, leas to reprouc

tion an, when upwar, to

the evolution of the

brain! %t is in this sense that Shakti is aresse

as Mother, with lar&e, well"*lle breasts esi&ne

to raise the human chil



to the stature of a $osmic $onscious -ein&!

The Ma&netic /ower of the %lluminati

%n a number of verses, repeate reference is mae

by our author to the irresistible fascination

e3ercise by the accomplishe

sahakas,

blesse by the Shakti, on the members of the fair se3 who

come in contact with them! ovely women, tormente

by the *re of love, succumb to these men of

concentrate mins! On them ceaselessly center the

looks of charmin& laies mae restless by the

arrows of $upi! -eautiful"e

ye maiens castin& away their m

oesty run after them an they

become the ob:ects of univie a

ttention, in the aboe

of $upi, on the part of youthful maiens

smitten with love! 7ven if u&ly they appear like

the min"allurin& 'o of ove in the eyes of

youthful amsels with lar&e well"forme hips! ;

ith these an other tellin& phrases the author

raws attention to the erotic aspect of the tr

ansformation e2ecte by an awakene =unalini!

8t another place (%%%!<) he asG "

C% wish to rink him with my eyes,C C% wish to touch his limbs

with mine,C C% wish to absorb



him into myself!C Such are thou&ht

s that cross the mins of youthful

maiens in re&ar to the accomplishe evotees of

the 'oess when sittin& in their company!

Saunarya ahari &oes a step furt

her to sayG " 4amsels in hunre

s with their lo

cks ishevele,

their sarees 5yin& o2 th

eir *&ures, their &irle

s burstin& asuner with for

ce, their silk &arments

slippin& own, run after a ecrepit, u&ly an impoten

t man, who falls within the ran&e of Thy sie

&lances! This acDuisition of a power of fascinati

on is mentione a&ain an a&ain in some of the

Tantras an books on Shakti Shastr

a! 8ccorin& to ?o&a"tattva #panisha, Hatha"?o&a secures

such personal beauty to the yo&i th

at all women woul esire him, but

they have to be resiste! 8ll

these colorful an, at places, hi&hly e3a&&erate st

atements are not without a har core of truth!

They refer to a profoun psycholo&ical factor whic

h forms the basis of attraction between the male

an the female in the play of love! ;e still



o not know what causes work an what ma&netic

waves pass between a couple intensel

y rawn to each other in the bon

of erotic esire or what

makes complete stran&ers take a suen likin& to each other!

The lionCs mane an the &or&eous feathers of a peaco

ck are allurin& se3ual characteristics provie

by nature to raw the members of the opposite

se3 to the copulative act

! 8 thousan i2erent

evices are use by nature to

ful*l the supreme purpose of pr

opa&ation! 8 hi&h forehea, broa

@>

shoulers, an athletic *&ure an

hi&h intellectual or artistic

&ifts in men, b

eauty, &race an

symmetry of face an *&ure, moesty, sweetness a

n &entleness in isposition, in the case of

women, are some of the allurin& feat

ures that not unoften e3ercise th

eir sway in the intercourse of

love between men an women in

i2erent parts of the worl!

%t is a well"observe fact that fa





ansform an avera&e human

bein& into a $osmic $onscious sa&e, a &enius of

the hi&hest orer or a pr

ophetic seer with hi&hly"

evelope psychic &ifts, full of vi&or an charm! %t

is, therefore, no woner if he becomes an ob:ect

of amiration an love to members of the opposite se

3 who come within the ci

rcle of his in5uence!

These verses in /anchastavi an other allie wo

rks are only intene to emphasiLe the fact that,

with the ascent of =unalin

i into the brain, the a

ept attains a stature amon&

mortals that even &os

woul envy! -eauty, health, lofty tr

aits of character, hi

&her intellectual a

n artistic &ifts, an

eloDuence, with a ma&netic personality, are the pricel

ess boons attainable with the iscipline! ;hat

is there then to belie the statement that accomplish

e yo&is of this calibre woul e3cite the interest

an amiration of the womenfolk su

sceptible to their in5uence

73amples of mass fascination e3er



cise by &reat &enerals, popular l

eaers an e3traorinary men of

talent are still fresh in our memory! apoleon

-onaparte an 8olf H

itler are but two known

e3amples of this kin! The &enius of .oltaire mae

even kin&s an aristocrat

s stan in awe of him!

8ll these are cases of a naturall

y active =unalini about which the

iniviuals themselves ha no

knowle&e at all! To what &o"like stature volunt

ary arousal of the mi&hty /ower, when its still

unisclose secrets are known, can raise the future r

ecipients of the favor it is not possible even to

ima&ine at present!

%t is to this total transformation of personality, raisin& man to the stature of a

superman, that

/anchastavi (%%%!) refers in th

e sub:oine verseG " O 'oess,

before him, who even once humbly

completely prostrates himself before Thee, empero

rs bow own from his very

birth, the crests of

their iaems lai tremblin& at his shinin& f

ootstool! He who worships

Thee is worshipe by





rcible istortion, inhibition or e3

tinction of the powerful impulse

cannot but lea to istortion, ecline or e3tinction of

the race! or natureCs plan of evolution it is

absolutely necessary that the amatory impulse shoul

continue to work to create more an more

evolve specimens of humanity! 8trophy or e3tinction

of the instinct implies

a violation of the law

of evolution an a ne&a

tion of the ;ill of 'o!

%t is ile to e3pect th

at an e3tene knowle&e

of the power reservoir of

=unalini can lift all the

race to a hi&her imension of consciousness within

a foreseeable perio of time! On the other han,

it is wiser to assume that the transition will ta

ke a&es to accomplish! -oth before an after the

transition, &raations in the mental, physical an sp

iritual stature of iniviuals will continue to

e3ist! ;ith the climb of each step of the laer,

the number of hi&hly evolve persons must show a

pro&ressive increase! %t is not

only in the achievement of hi&her

ethical stanars or superior



intellectual talent, but also in th

e attainment of &reater

beauty, charm an lon&evity for the boy that

the evolutionary chan&e will manifest itself!

%t is safe to presume that the hi&hest proucts of

the process will e3ercise th

eir power an cast their

ma&netic in5uence over the crows

amon& whom they live!

The attraction felt by the other se3

towars the proi&ies of this clas

s, to conform to the instinctiv

e hun&er for more evolve, ieal

o2sprin&, will continue to be a natural feature of

human life as it is now! %t is to these profoun

instinctive impulses in the human min to which the

verses refer! o

man"mae barriers or cultural

pre:uices can ever stan a&ainst the overpower

in& mi&ht of the evolutionary impulses! The

institution of marria&e an the play

of erotic passion will always be

subservient to the ictates of

this irrepressible ur&e! The ieal

forms of welock in which the ethi

cal, erotic an eu&enic emans



will *n ful*llment, in keepin& with the overall pur

pose of evolution, have still to be etermine!

rom a istance of more than one thousan years,

/anchastavi beckons the present"ay war"torn,

ivie mankin to the &lowin& vision of a new

worl! ot the main&, shriekin& worl of &iant

machines, nor the iabolic worl of ma&ic, sor

cery an supernatural power, nor the pleasure"craLy

worl of vice, crime an violence, but a worl

of harmony, beauty, peace an happiness, e3istin&

both within an without! $iviliLa

tions rose an fell without translatin& this &lorious vision into

actuality because i&norance of the

physical laws of the #niverse

stoo in the way of a better

unerstanin& of the laws of the spiritual worl!

#nhealthy asceticism in the *el of reli&ion,

unbrile power in the hans of a few in that of

politics, e3tremes of want an opulence in the

social realm, an o&ma in the sphere of knowle&e

combine to keep mankin fettere to ways of

life anta&onistic to the manifestation of the 4ivinity within!

The 4ivine sie of the #niverse,

by too much stress on the material

sie alone, will always remain

hien from the si&ht of science unless this stubborn attitue re&isters a

chan&e! o power on earth



an no achievement of the intellect can ever succee

in placin& forever the &o over the brute in

man! The shift from &oo to evil an from evil to

&oo will continue like a

&iant see"saw, liftin&

mankin up for a while to plenty an unisturbe p

eace an then plun&in& her own into the abyss

of war, su2erin& an want! ;ere

the 9ile of the #niverse so

easy to rea th

at the puny human

intellect coul *n the answer, it woul re

uce the $reator of this, for the human min,

unima&inable worl, to the positio

n of only a ma&ni*e human bei

n&! -ut continue

penetration

into the Mysteries of $reation for millions of year

s to come woul not e3haust the in*nite mine of

woners that shall continue to

e3cite the curiosity of mankin!

The paramount importance of the research on =unalin

i lies in thisG that the very *rst successful

e3periment woul reveal the hie

n possibilities of spiritual tran

sformation e3istin& in the human



frame, an the unboune worl of consciousness which

this transformation can open to view! This

e3perience alone can subue the ot

herwise unyielin& prie of the

intellect! %t is only when the

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