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subsequent energies, Vidya (pp. 107-113), Santi岣� (pp. 113-117),
and Santyat墨t膩 (pp. 118-131). In the midst of the description of
Santyatit膩, there intervenes a brief parenthetical discussion on
liberation and the subdivisions of the paths.
The master next (pp. 131-135) performs, at different levels.
of utterance, a triple set of reinforcing and expiatory oblations,
directed at the three universally encompassing realities: of the
object of knowledge, of knowledge, and of knower. 1 The ritual
concludes (pp. 135-138) with various minor rites, and with the
important cutting of the initiate's topknot.
After this seeming end to the ritual, the master performs
the rite of joining. The text only records the master's declaration
accompanying this act, and does not explicate its structure. After
exiting from the ritual area, the master performs (pp. 138-141)
several final acts for purification, and proclaims the end of the
initiate's bonded condition.
II.4.2 The Rites of Joining
Transitional dialogue (p.141) now announces that the
procedure for joining (yojanik膩), prescribed previously, will be
described here. The dialogue continues (pp. 142-143) with a listing
of the parts of this joining ritual. This list represents virtually
another complete anukrama峁噄k膩, which outlines the parts of this
ritual which will take up much (pp.141-258) of the remaining
fourth book. Each of the components of the joining ritual appears
to constitute, in itself, a complete procedure bestowing liberation.
Evidently, redactors have collected these rites here and integrated
them, with devices like the anukrama峁噄k膩, as parts of the ritual
1 V. infra, pp. 244ff, where the same set of three realities
appears again in another appendixed rite, and bk.5, p.8, where the
purification of these three planes forms an alternate form of
initiation.