Second Patala
Devi said: Dear son, now I will speak of bathing, the vehicle of Kula happiness. I have various forms (coloured) black, red, yellow and blue. Whichever pupil on the path of Kula goes to bathe, attains my form. Everything, heaven and hell, originates on earth. After sipping water, strew the Kula place with grass and Kula flowers and place durva grass, sesame oil and water in the Kula vessel.
After satisfying the Kuladeva, bathe. At first performing resolution, then draw the Kula Cakra on the (surface) of the water. Bow to the Kula trees, and using the Kula mudra called Ankusha, the Kula should invoke the Kula tirthas (into the water). After drinking the water three times, bathe body three times. Dedicate the offering to the deva of the Kula tree three times.
Using the Kula water, oblate the devas, the ancestors and the rishis. Again, after meditating on the Kulas, offer water to the Kula devas again. In the Bhairavi Tantra there are verses relating to this knowledge: Bhairavaya devaya. Creation came from Bhairava. Offer to Bhairava, pronouncing this mantra. After giving a suitable offering, meditate on the being of Bhairava-Bhairavi, offering the remainder.
Deva, by meditating in this manner, I bestow grace, whether the rite be that of ancestors, Shakti, offering, bathing or limb puja, there is no doubt about this. After satisfying (Devi), offer the remainder to the people pervading the world who have this thing. Then rise, don the Kula robe, and envelop oneself in Kula.
Making a forehead mark of the Kula type, sip water again. Pay respect to the Kula pitha and do worship of the Kuladeva.
After satisfying the guardian of the door by suitable song, dance, speech and so forth, one should collect the Kula elements and purify the Kula seat. The Kula seat duly prepared, then strew the area with suitable pleasant things. Sitting on the Kula seat, and binding the hair, do the ritual of Guru puja.
A person should purify himself, the area of ritual work, and his own body. Sipping the offering, the wise person should then worship the Kula ishtadevata. Do the puja with initiates, with adepts, with young maidens, with Kula people, and with those devoted to devata and guru.
Various kinds of flowers and different sorts of scents should be present and one should don clothes scented with camphor and incense, smeared with scented powder. Offer tambula and various other pleasant substances, giving incense and fire first.
A Kaulika should wear all kinds of jewels and gems, and, reciting the root vidya, should sprinkle the place with water. All the substances should be on the right, while the offering (arghya) should be on the left. The Kula substances should be to the west of the devata.
Making a yantra using different menstrual flowers such as svayambhu and different red materials like rocana, lac, kumkuma, and red sandalwood, one should do the puja, afterwards offering recitation. After reciting the Shakti mantra and praising her, then do the dismissal. Circle, and then prostrate yourself in front of the young woman there present. After previously offering the essence of the Kula nectar to the guru, one should then eat food.
One should worship the young woman and she should worship you. Conceal the design of the yantra in the secret place of the 1,000 petal lotus. Only impart this to a Kulina and never to atheists, fools, pashus or brahmanas, otherwise one meets with death.
Folk having gone at night to the cremation ground or to a Kula house and placing in the centre of flowers and sweet scents the highest Kula thing, should, in the company of Kulas, within the Kulacakra, draw a Kulayantra containing the name of the object to be accomplished. After first writing one’s own name, accomplish the sadhana following the rules of the Kulacara. The sadhaka should do the sadhana with his own and other Shaktis.
Dear son, now listen to the rules relating to unification with Parashakti. Embrace one’s own partner, who should be very beautiful and very alluring. One should act as the guru to the Kula devotee, and should initiate her into the path of Kula.
(She should) show in her eyes the very blissful essence, be Kula born, be faithful and very wise, inwardly protective of the guru, with her mouth full of tambula.
You should worship her as if she were your own daughter. Then draw on her forehead a Shakti Cakra of three concentric circles, within this writing the Kamakala mantra. In the centre, using mantra, write the name of the object to be attained. Inside this, invoke Devi and after meditating on her, worship her.
Then pronounce the rishi, metre and root mantra into the ear of your daughter, three times in her left ear.
Son, now listen to the sexual embrace in Kula puja. A knower of Kula should worship she who is wanton and free from shame, doing the actions according to the guidance of the guru. After being initiated, prostrate yourself like a stick on the ground.
Say Save me! O Lord of Kula, who with your Padmini is on the path of Kula! May the shadow of your lotus feet fall on my head, O Princely One! After giving dakshina to the guru with eyes full of love and tambula in his mouth, accomplish whatever you want with your own Kula Shakti.
If, firstly, you do not do limb and avarana puja, then you are not a Kula. After first meditating on one’s own guru as being above one, the very essence of Kula nectar, and after oblating that deva, then one may recite mantra.
