Śivasaṃhitā 2.20

This verse elevates citrā to the status of divyamārga, the ‘divine path’, granting it a soteriological dimension that transcends its subtle anatomical description. The compound amṛtānandakārakam — ‘producer of the bliss of immortality’ — directly links the practice of the inner channel to the state of mokṣa, establishing that liberation is not an abstract destination but the result of a concrete, cultivable inner experience.

Divyamārga combines divya (divine, celestial, luminous) and mārga (path, way). This term appears across multiple Tantric traditions to designate the inner way, opposed to the laukikamārga or worldly path. Amṛta (immortality, nectar) refers to the subtle fluid that, according to tradition, descends from bindu in the skull when kuṇḍalinī ascends through citrā, generating pure ānanda (bliss).

The claim that contemplating this channel destroys all sins (pāpa) reflects precise Tantric logic: sin is not an abstract moral transgression but an energetic densification, an obstruction within the subtle channels. Meditation on citrā acts directly upon these obstructions, dissolving accumulated saṃskāras through the purification of the central axis.