Post #1094

The answer given in Netratantra quote that the Yoginis assail living beings in three ways:'transcendent' (para), "imperceptible' (sükşma) and physical' (sthūla). It is neither desire, enmity, nor craving that drives them to do this. They act in this way to worship Bhairava as stipulated in his own teachings, it is not their goal to cause harm (himsā). Šiva himself created sacrificial victims for this very purpose: by killing them the Yoginīs, Mätrs and Säkinīs are in reality bestowing liberating grace (anugraha) upon them, redeeming them from their severe sins (pāpa) and uniting them with Siva. In the transcendent attack by Yoginīs that concerns us here, the resulting union is compared to that occurring in Saiva initiation (dikşā). As such the sacrifice itself must not be considered an act of killing (märana) but rather an act of Iliberating (mokşana).