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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 6.191

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Ullāsas
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Ullāsa 6 · Verse 191

सुधापाननियमःThe rule of drinking

Verse 191

आदावास्तरणार्थाय गृह्णीयात् शुद्धिमुत्तमाम् । ततोऽतिहृष्टमनसा समस्तः कुलसाधकः ॥ १९१ ॥

ādāvāstaraṇārthāya gṛhṇīyāt śuddhimuttamām | tatō’tihṛṣṭamanasā samastaḥ kulasādhakaḥ || 191 ||

Translation

First he should take the best śuddhi as a base; then every Kula practitioner, with a very glad mind,

Word by word

ādāv
(ādau) first
āstaraṇa
base
arthāya
for
gṛhṇīyāt
should take
śuddhim
śuddhi
uttamām
best
tatō
(tataḥ) then
ati
very
hṛṣṭa
glad
manasā
with a mind
samastaḥ
every
kula
Kula
sādhakaḥ
practitioner

Meaning

Verses 191 to 193: drinking itself is an oblation into the Kuṇḍalinī.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

First, at the very start, he should take the excellent śuddhi for the āstaraṇa, the base on which the wine is set. Then every Kula practitioner, with a very glad mind, taking his own vessel filled with the supreme nectar, the best wine, and imagining, thinking of, the Kula-Kuṇḍalinī whose form is consciousness, abiding and pervading from the mūlādhāra to the tip of the tongue, uttering the root mantra into her lotus mouth, taking each other's leave, should offer the supreme nectar as an oblation into the mouth of the Kuṇḍalinī. (This explanation covers verses 191 to 193.)