आनन्दभैरवध्यानम्Meditation on Ānandabhairava
Verse 168
ध्यात्वैवमुभयोस्तत्र सामरस्यं विचिन्तयन् । प्रणवादिनमोऽन्तेन नाममन्त्रेण देशिकः । संपूज्य गन्धपुष्पाभ्यां शोधयेत् कारणं ततः ॥ १६८ ॥
dhyātvaivamubhayōstatra sāmarasyaṁ vicintayan | praṇavādinamō’ntēna nāmamantrēṇa dēśikaḥ | saṁpūjya gandhapuṣpābhyāṁ śōdhayēt kāraṇaṁ tataḥ || 168 ||
Translation
Having meditated thus, and contemplating there the oneness of the two, the teacher should worship them with scent and flowers with their name mantras beginning with the praṇava and ending with namaḥ, and then purify the kāraṇa.
Word by word
- dhyātvā
- (dhyātvā) having meditated
- ēvam
- (evam) thus
- ubhayōs
- (ubhayoḥ) of the two
- tatra
- there
- sāmarasyaṁ
- the oneness
- vicintayan
- contemplating
- praṇava
- with the praṇava
- ādi
- beginning
- namō
- (namaḥ) namaḥ
- antēna
- (antena) ending with
- nāma
- name
- mantrēṇa
- with mantras
- dēśikaḥ
- the teacher
- saṁpūjya
- should worship
- gandha
- with scent
- puṣpābhyāṁ
- and flowers
- śōdhayēt
- purify
- kāraṇaṁ
- the kāraṇa
- tataḥ
- then
Meaning
"Sāmarasya", the commentary says, is "ekarasya", the oneness of essence of Bhairavī and Bhairava: their union, in which the two are tasted as one. This is the central idea of the Kaula path, the non-duality of Śiva and Śakti, contemplated in the vessel. Each is then worshipped with a name mantra: "oṁ ānandabhairavyai namaḥ" and "oṁ ānandabhairavāya namaḥ". Then the "kāraṇa", "the cause", the Kaula name for wine, is purified.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Dhyātvā…". Having meditated on the two in this way, and contemplating there, in the ali-yantra, the sāmarasya of the two, Bhairavī and Bhairava, their oneness of essence (ekarasya), the teacher (deśika), the sādhaka, should worship them with scent and flowers with their name mantras beginning with the praṇava and ending with namaḥ, and then purify the kāraṇa, the wine.