Tantra Yoga-6-3.
6. The Pancha Tattva-3.
The Sadhaka thinks that he has got a Deva body.
This is Bhuta- Suddhi.
Various Nyasas are performed.
Mental worship is performed of the Devi who is thought of as being in red raiment seated on a red lotus.
Her dark body is like rain-cloud.
Her forehead is shining with the light of the crescent moon.
Japa of Mantra is then done.
Thereupon there is external worship.
Sexual intercourse by a man with a woman who is not lawful to him is a sin.
The Vaidika Dharma is very strict on this point.
It forbids not merely actual Maithuna
but Ashtanga or
eightfold Maithuna namely
1. Smaranam (thinking upon it),
2. Kirtanam (talking of it),
3. Keli (play with women),
4. Prekshanam (making eyes at women),
5. Guhya-bhashanam (talking in private with women),
6. Sankalpa (wish or resolve for sexual union),
7. Adhyavasaya (determination towards it),
8. Kriyanishpatti (actual accomplishment of the sexual act).
Swami Sivananda
To be continued.....
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