Chapter 14: Mercury Sādhanas

14.1The Goddess said, “Based on what you said, how can the full complement of obstructing beings be overcome, so that skilled yogins can perform this practice in its entirety from the start? They should make a single leaf that contains the black and white substances, grind it with sour gruel, and again divide it into two portions with sona juice. Then they should use the juice of dhak tree leaves, the juice of white Chinese hibiscus, cow urine, and rohita carp bile that has been refined nine times, followed by karuli and pomelo. If this is completed by the end of the day they will certainly attain siddhi.

14.2“A person with faith should mix together samudra, datura leaf juice, earth from a cremation pyre, yellow orpiment, and malabar nut and place it in the sunshine. They should then repeatedly immerse it in a mixture of lemon juice that has been soaked in mercury for one night. Whatever one desires will come to pass. This should be performed by an adept.

14.3“If, when undertaking a mercury procedure, an obstacle suddenly arises and creates problems, or if an obstructive person with brown or white hair disrupts the process, then at that time one should perform a bali offering to the best of their ability. One should offer meat, alcohol, flowers, incense, perfumes, garlands, and the flesh of domestic fowl to the incarnation of a protector deity that has arrived. If a person with a dark complexion manifests, they are an incarnation of a yakṣa and should be given the previously mentioned bali offering as well.

14.4“If they arrive within seven days to contaminate the mercury, one should call to mind the following mantra:

14.5oṁ yakṣa kīlikīli­nāma phaṭkāra rakṣa rakṣa diśam bandha mukham bandha hastam bandha bandha sarvāṅgaṃ hūṁ hūṁ raṁ hūṁ phaṭ svāhā.

14.6“This mantra will protect one from any manifestation. Yogins who know it and use it at that time to subjugate the obstructing beings will definitely attain siddhi. [F.65.b]

14.7“If incarnations of yakṣiṇīs manifest before one’s eyes when undertaking the procedure or manifest suddenly, they can be recognized as a woman with a dark complexion and red eyes, one who is slight, short in stature, eloquent, and has a sweet voice. One should respectfully give her some jujube and perform the bali offering to attain siddhi.

14.8“If the one who is present has a yellow complexion, is tall, has long calves and limbs, is very attractive, and has features such as eyebrows that flow upward and are of two colors, she will create obstacles, disrupt the mercury procedure, and act violently.

14.9“If a woman taking the form of one’s mother or wife or likewise the form of one’s niece, paternal grandmother, mother-in-law, mistress, and so forth appears at night, one should protect oneself with the mantra oṁ kaṭī me jaḥ hūṁ. One should touch the mercury with chalk while incanting it with the mantra seven times, pierce it, and continue speaking the mantra to the extent desired. Using one’s perfect vision, one should check one’s dreams and then, based on that, make the mercury correctly and perform the practice of receiving it. If there appears a negative sign or one indicating not to do it, one will know that it will not work.

14.10“One should grind menstrual blood, bottle gourd, and mercury. One should then take one pala of that mixture, add a sixth of a portion of gold, place it in a stone vessel, and mix in black-cat bile and mercury. Later, the thin mixture should be poured out and muddled with buffalo urine on the third day, human flesh on the fourth day, a droṇa of emblic myrobalan on the fifth day, marking nut on the sixth day, and the three myrobalan fruits on the seventh day. After that, one should rinse it with human urine, add lemon juice, and leave it in the sun for one watch of the day. Next it should be removed and placed on a stick along with juice made of velvet bean, three-leaved caper, kurchi, himaraṅga, Indian leadwort, and mung bean. One should rinse it with velvet bean and sesbania juice and let it dry out for three days. [F.66.a] One should then take four palas of white mica that has undergone the aforementioned purification, process it every day for twelve months, refine it for a month in juice made from emblic myrobalan and sudarśana leaves, and finish it by stirring it to the right for as long as possible. At that point Brahmā and the gods of his realm will grant the incomparable siddhi. If one eats it every day and night for fifteen days, one can invariably turn the eight metals to gold simply by touching them. If both the sun and moon disappear, at that very moment one will produce whatever one desires. Moreover, one will be able to enthrall women from within the midst of a great army.”

14.11This is chapter fourteen in The Glorious Sovereign Tantra of Mahākāla, “Mercury Sādhanas.”