Verses 260–269

260. Consider what is the twenty sixth essence. It is a wondrous vital spirit. If thou unite it intimately with the chief spirit in the (gurupada) cerebral suture. Him who doth this they shall surely call saint.

261. Establishing the six gods in the six limbs and fixing the chamber of the head firm on the one pillar of the spine, the reckoning is to allow but one ruler (man) to each house.

262. There are six sustainers of the earth. There are the six rulers, princes of the earth. The noble and great warriors are these know that the body is their chariot and mark the result.

263. The divinity (atma linga) dwells in what is termed the ajna chacra (the space between the eyes). It is only by gazing intently on this part that shines so nobly, that beatitude shall be attained by men.

264. Cut down in thy soul the five chacras, nobly surmount those chacras and behold the plain beyond them.

265. The tree of beatitude has no (beginning) root but four fair boughs (forms of existence, animal, vegetable, insects, minerals). It is open to view and produces fruit. If thou eat them, they have no taste but cause appetite.

266. In that house in the threshold of which three ways meet with air, in the place where those three meet cloth Siva dwell (mystic of the body--worthless).

267. He who has the skill firmly to dwell in the six and three chacrams knowing their beauty he hath found the path to perfection.

268. If thou meditate in thy mind, in the sagittal suture shall there stand, He who is ruler of all to all who worship him does he give both sustenance and salvation.

269. Mind, words and works--if thou give up these three, and walk not up and down the royal path (a mystic part of the body), then shall any loss befall the yogee?