“Now I will present a chapter on the collyrium siddhi. The collyrium is said to be the single taste that follows the union of the vajra and lotus. Externally, the collyrium allows one to fly like a vulture.

“One should gather the bones of a rat on the eighth day of the waning moon. Then on a Sunday one should make them into wicks in an earthen bowl using the cloth of an eye covering. After that, one should use dog fat in a brahmin’s skull to decoct the collyrium. When one rubs it on their eyes, they will move through the air like the eye of a raven.

“Next, one should make two pills from high-quality iron. Once that is complete, one should consume them on a Tuesday and then lead a black bull to a designated place and strike it until it cries out. One should then ride the bull while eating food, and at dawn one should recite the mantra for the sixteen-armed form. Apply the collyrium and dismount from the bull, and one will certainly move through the air and dwell among the families.

“On the fourteenth day of the dark half of the lunar month, one should gradually crush sulfur, lead oxide, saffron, musk, sandalwood, jamun, and olibanum on a stone mortar and make the mixture into a pill. Combine it with honey to make a collyrium. One will then drift about anywhere like a cloud.

“I will explain. Yogins who have spots on their heart and throat, are devoted to Mahākāla, and have a long nose are certain to possess the collyrium siddhi. This is the supreme siddhi for those beings with inferior or middling faculties.”

Then the Goddess said, “One should grind up śabarī root and honey, mix them together, and smear them on their eyes. This results in the siddhi that allows one to drift through the sky like a cloud and move about as desired.

“One should gather some datura root on a Friday, sunflower on Saturday, sesbania root on Sunday, and the bile of a black cat on Monday. One should then muddle them with yellow arsenic and honey and use the mixture as a collyrium on the eyes. One will drift about like a cloud.

“On a uniformly colored stone, one should muddle jayara fruit extract with sunflower, bilva flowers, black salt, peacock bile, and honey and apply the mixture to both eyes as a collyrium. That person will soar through the air like a vulture. Goddess, this is like the swift feet siddhi, except that it is the easier siddhi.”