When one casts into the fire of supreme reality the five elements, the senses and their objects, the dualistic mind and even vacuity, then there is true offering to the Gods.

~ Vijnanabhairava Tantra, verse 149

Daniel Odier, in the introduction to his presentation of this Tantra, tells us:

The Vijnanabhairava Tantra, a text written by the Shaivite School of Kashmir around the first century A.D., represents