Śivasaṃhitā 5.231
Pañcamaḥ paṭalaḥ — Dhyāna
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The promise of bhukti (worldly enjoyment) AND mukti (spiritual liberation) through the same triad of bījas is tantrism’s most characteristic declaration. Where other schools present an irreconcilable opposition between pleasure and liberation, tantrism affirms that the same energy sustaining worldly experience, correctly oriented, leads directly to liberation.
Bīja-traya = triad of mantric seeds (bīja = seed, traya = three), gopyam = must be kept secret, bhukti = experience/enjoyment (bhuj = to enjoy, to experience), mukti = liberation (muc = to release, liberate), phala-prada = fruit-granter.
The combination bhukti-mukti as mantra’s double fruit appears repeatedly in śrīvidyā tantras and Mahāvidyā texts. Tripurā Sundarī’s mantra in particular is described as «giving enjoyment and liberation in this very life». The Śiva-saṃhitā inherits this doctrine and presents it as the mantrasādhanā’s heart, subverting the asceticism that rejects the world.