Third Patala
Now I speak to you of worship at night in one’s own Kula. The Shakti should be seated on your left hand side on a mattress, adorned with red clothes, bejewelled with gold, smeared with red scents, garlanded with flowers, perfumed, wearing bright things, very beautiful, wearing lovely clothes, with eyes like shy blossoms, slender, with large full breasts.
On her forehead, draw a beautiful yantra and in this write the object to be accomplished. Draw the same on her shoulders, arms, breasts and stomach. Her mouth should be filled with tambula and Kula substances. After doing recitation of the Kulakula mantra, one attains the desired for thing immediately.
She comes from a distance of 100 yojanas, across rivers and mountains, across 1,000 isles, free of restraint, with agitated eyes, shedding love juice profusely, trembling, the circle of her beautiful buttocks swaying, her heart full of love for the sadhaka, boldly coming ever closer, coming to sit with the sadhaka, moving like the devata. Attracted to him in this way, a sadhaka achieves success and becomes a Kaulika.
Unless she is initiated and young, how is it possible to accomplish Kulapuja? There can be no Kulapuja, dearest, unless she has previously obtained the Kula mantra. When other than young, dear son, it is as if she were one with the guru (?).
In her left ear, recite the mantra while sprinkling her (with Kula nectar). Mahadeva, now listen. I will expound this mantra to you. Aim Klim Sauh Tripurayai imam Shaktim pavitram mama Shakti kuru Svaha. This mantra has 26 syllables (?). O Deva, purify the Shakti using this mantra.
Brahmin-girl, warrior-girl, merchant-girl, slave-girl, Kulini, daughter of a barber, washer-girl, yogini; these are the eight girls.
Each woman is equivalent to a Kula maiden. Hold the Kula cakra at a crossroads, close to a river, at the root of a bilva tree, actually within the cremation ground, during a feast, in a palace or whatever, O Holder of the Trident!
Draw, dear son, a great yantra using powdered vermilion, and strew on it the names of the object you want to accomplish!
Use couch grass. Worship according to the rule and enter the Kula using the essence of Kula. Worship therein according to the due prescription and create the Kula using the essence of Kula!
Offering wine within the Kula area, devoted souls should then worship beautiful young women, duly initiated, wearing (silken) robes, garlands and so forth, giving them food, good milk and all the rest.
To start, give (these maidens) food you have cooked yourself (dear son). (Examples follow): different sorts of cake, curd, milk, ghee, buttertmilk, candies. Offer different side-dishes flaboured [for example] with crushed saffron and essences of variegated sources (drawn from) the art of cookery.
Try offering jackfruit, polished cardamoms, washed lemons, pomegranates and different other pleasant fruits [all the while] smearing the maidens with a variety of scents and perfumes.
Try offering them sandalwood, musk, saffron, fresh green sprouts of pallava, borax, blossoms of the Lodhra tree, things from the water, items from the forest. Bring [your beautiful Shaktis] different jewels, and decorate them – in turn – with very precious jewels of different kinds.
Do the worship in a private place, and give offerings and also do purifications. Once [a sadhaka] has caused the Kula amrita to flow, he should bow in front of the Shaktis.
He should bow to each of the Shaktis, in turn, and should call out their names, starting with the Brahmini. Asking each to take a seat, a sadhaka should make sure each one has a seat. Then he should give them offerings, water to drink, water for each [beautiful goddess] to wash her toes, honey-flavoured water, and water yet again.
If they are uninitiated, [the sadhaka] should say Hrim to each. O truly beauteous One, he should feed them in the centre of a pavilion using golden plates. Then he should recite the hymn.
Om hail to you Mother Devi!
Stainless soul, the essence of Brahma.
Through your compassion remove obstacles and bestow siddhi on me!
Maheshi, giver of blessings!
Devi, the form of supreme bliss!
Through your compassion &c.
Kaumari, who dallies with Kumara,
Lady of all Knowledge,
Through your compassion &c.
Vashnavi, carried on Garuda’s wings,
The very self of Vishnu
Through your compassion &c.
Varahi Devi, giver of blessings,
Who lifted the earth on your tusks,
Through your compassion &c.
Devi, you are Aindri, worshipped by all the gods and Indra.
Through your compassion &c.
Chamunda, smeared with blood, dressed in a garland of severed heads,
You destroy fear!
Through your compassion &c.
Mahalakshmi Mahamaya, you destroy anxiety and sorrow.
Through your compassion &c.
Devi you are the goddess, father and mother both!
You take the place of our father and mother!
Although one, you are many, in the form of the cosmos!
Hail to you Devi, hail!
