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Śivasaṃhitā 4.80

Caturthaḥ paṭalaḥ — Mudrā

Sanskrit text

वज्रोल्यभ्यासयोगोऽयं भोगे युक्तेऽपि मुक्तिदः ।

Transliteration

vajrolyabhyāsayogo'yaṃ bhoge yukte'pi muktidaḥ |

Translation

This yoga of Vajrolī grants liberation even to one immersed in pleasures; one who practices Shakti-chālana correctly for even two seconds, and with care, is very near to success and should practice it in the proper posture.

Commentary

The formula bhoge yukte’pi muktidaḥ — ‘giver of liberation even to one immersed in pleasures’ — is the doctrinal synthesis of Vajrolī in the Śivasaṃhitā and one of the most radical statements in all medieval tantric literature. The paradox bhoga-mokṣa (pleasure-liberation), which in the Vedāntic tradition are opposite poles, here coexist in the practice of a single technique.

Vajrolyabhyāsayoga — ‘the yoga of the practice of Vajrolī’ — is a compound elevating the technique to the rank of a complete yoga: it is not an auxiliary exercise but a complete path of liberation. Abhyāsa (practice, repeated exercise) + yoga (union, method of liberation) creates the term designating Vajrolī as a complete system. This has taxonomic implications: Vajrolī is placed at the level of hatha yoga, rāja yoga, or jñāna yoga as a self-sufficient path.

The promise that two seconds of correct practice (dvikṣaṇa) of Shakti-chālana brings one near success reveals the qualitative — not quantitative — structure of time in tantric sādhana. What matters is not duration but precision and presence: two seconds of correct energy activation are more transformative than hours of mechanical practice. The āsana vidhivat (appropriate posture according to the rule) is the technical condition making this temporal economy possible.