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The Essence of the Tantra22.51

22.51

एवम् एतेभ्यो यागेभ्यो ऽन्यतमं कृत्वा यदि तथाविधनिर्विचिकित्सतापचित्रितहृदयः शिष्यो भवति तदा तस्मै तद्यागदर्शनपूर्वकं तिलाज्याहुतिपूर्वकनिरपेक्षम् एव पूर्वोक्तव्याप्त्या अनुसन्धानक्रमेण अवलोकनया दीक्षां कुर्यात् परोक्षदीक्षादिके नैमित्तिकान्ते तु पूर्व एव विधिः

Transliteration (IAST)

evam etebhyo yāgebhyo 'nyatamaṃ kṛtvā yadi tathāvidhanirvicikitsatāpacitritahṛdayaḥ śiṣyo bhavati tadā tasmai tadyāgadarśanapūrvakaṃ tilājyāhutipūrvakanirapekṣam eva pūrvoktavyāptyā anusandhānakrameṇa avalokanayā dīkṣāṃ kuryāt parokṣadīkṣādike naimittikānte tu pūrva eva vidhiḥ

— having performed some one of these worships ; — such freedom from doubt ; — whose heart is adorned (saturated) ; — preceded by showing him that worship ; — without dependence on preliminary oblations of sesame and ghee ; — by the aforesaid pervasion, through a sequence of contemplative joining ; — should perform the initiation by (a mere) gaze ; — in the indirect initiation and the rest, up to the occasional rites ; — the earlier procedure alone (applies)

Thus, having performed some one of these worships, if the disciple becomes one whose heart is saturated with such freedom from doubt, then for him, having first shown him that worship, without dependence even on the preliminary oblations of sesame and ghee, by the aforesaid pervasion, through a sequence of contemplative joining, one should perform the initiation by a mere gaze. But in the indirect initiation and the rest, up to the occasional rites, the earlier procedure alone applies.