अथ तु परं कामकलाभूतं कामकूटमाहुः । तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यमित्यादिद्वात्रिंशदक्षरीं पठित्वा तदिति परमात्मा सदाशिवोऽक्षरं विमलं निरुपाधितादात्म्यप्रतिपादनेन हकाराक्षरं शिवरूपं निरक्षरमक्षरं व्यालिख्यत इति
atha tu paraṃ kāmakalābhūtaṃ kāmakūṭamāhuḥ | tatsaviturvareṇyamityādidvātriṃśadakṣarīṃ paṭhitvā taditi paramātmā sadāśivo'kṣaraṃ vimalaṃ nirupādhitādātmyapratipādanena hakārākṣaraṃ śivarūpaṃ nirakṣaramakṣaraṃ vyālikhyata iti
«Now, however, they call the highest, become the portion of desire, the summit of desire: having recited the thirty-two-syllabled [gāyatrī] — «tat» is the Highest Ātman, Sadāśiva, the stainless syllable — the syllable «ha», the form of Śiva, the soundless syllable is inscribed».
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The second summit is named: kāma-kūṭa, «the summit of desire», otherwise kāma-kalā, «the portion of desire». The count here runs: dvā-triṃśat-akṣarī, «thirty-two-syllabled» — the gāyatrī in its full form, with «om», the three vyāhṛti, and the addition «paro rajase savadom», comes to thirty-two syllables here. The number again serves as certification, as discussed at the fourth line.
The word kāma-kalā is among the chief ones in tantric literature and denotes the point of union of Śiva and Śakti, depicted by three marks. There is no need to examine it in detail here: this is a matter of initiation, not of reading. Something else matters more. The sound «ha» is called nir-akṣaram akṣaram, «the soundless syllable»; the phrase contradicts itself to the ear but is precise in meaning, for «ha» is, in Sanskrit, pure aspiration — an out-breath without any sound-shape. It is both a syllable and not a syllable, and so by it is denoted what exists yet has no form.
To this let us add a simple and sorrowful observation. The out-breath is the last thing a person does; and that it is exactly this sound that marks the limit has been rightly observed — every life ends with an out-breath, and so the out-breath is taken as a sign of what lies beyond it.