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The kinds of drink are named and classed by their source — tree-born, bark-born, flower-born and grain-born among them.
Bṛhat Tantrasāra reorders and condenses this list rather than quoting it verbatim.
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Wine is Śakti, meat is Śiva, and the enjoyer of both is Bhairava himself; the bliss born of their union is called liberation.
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One should sit at ease in a solitary, secluded place free of disturbance, facing east or north.
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The purification of self, place, mantra, substances and deity is fivefold; until it is done there can be no worship of the deity.
Bṛhat Tantrasāra's quotation adds a third pāda on worship turning to sorcery that is not in the base verse.
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A rite done short of or in excess of its prescribed measure never bears fruit; only what is done exactly according to rule succeeds.
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Going to the house of the kula teacher, one should ask for the kula nectar out of devotion, for the purification of sin; failing that, one should drink water.
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One who does nyāsa daily by the rule taught in the āgama attains the state of the deity, and success in the mantra arises.
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Half the merit of food given as alms goes to the giver and half to the eater; the wise should therefore take care to avoid another's food.
Bṛhat Tantrasāra's wording is a close paraphrase, not verbatim, and draws on both 15.75 and 15.76.
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If the mind is elsewhere, Śiva elsewhere, Śakti elsewhere and the breath elsewhere, nothing succeeds, O fair one, not even after a hundred million kalpas.
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A lakh of japa with meditation and nyāsa stills the faults of practice and guards the practitioner; without it there is no fruit, and the deity's curse falls.
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The closing word of the mantra by rite: vaṣaṭ for expelling, huṃ and phaṭ for killing, namaḥ for paralysing, svāhā for pacifying and nourishing.
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