mukhe śirasy ānupūrvyād
mukhe śirasy ānupūrvyād
oṁkārādīni vinyaset
oṁ namo nārāyaṇāyeti
viparyayam athāpi vā
Viśvarūpa said: Washing hands and feet, performing ācamana, wearing a kuśa ring and facing north, after performing aṅga-nyāsa and kara-nyāsa using two mantras, being purified and silent, one should then put on the armor of Nārāyaṇa in times of fear. Using the words oṁ namo nārāyaṇāya, one should place one syllable on each of the following limbs in order: feet, knees, thighs, belly, heart, chest, mouth, and head. One should then repeat the process with the limbs in reverse order and syllables in reverse order.
This explains how to place the eight syllable of the mantra on eight limbs starting with the feet.[83] Starting with oṁ, one should place one syllable preceded and followed by the word oṁ on each limb. One should then start from the head and place the syllables on the limbs. The first series is called sṛṣṭi-nyāsa and the second series is called saṁhāra-nyāsa.
|| 6.8.7 ||
kara-nyāsaṁ tataḥ kuryād
dvādaśākṣara-vidyayā
praṇavādi-ya-kārāntam
aṅguly-aṅguṣṭha-parvasu
One should then perform kara-nyāsa using the twelve-syllable mantra beginning with oṁ and ending with ya (oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya), placing the syllables on the fingers and on the joints of the thumbs.
Taking each syllable preceded and followed by oṁ, one should place the first eight syllables on the fingers starting with the right finger and ending with the left forefinger. One should place the remaining syllables on the first and last joints of the right and left thumbs.
|| 6.8.8-10 ||
nyased dhṛdaya oṁkāraṁ
vi-kāram anu mūrdhani
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