Aghora - Mangalacharanam (Auspicious Invocation)

शिवशक्त्यात्मकं सर्वं घोराघोरमिदं स्मृतम् ।
आधारभूता सर्वस्य आद्या ब्रह्मसनातनी ॥
अग्निश्च वह्निरूपा च कालकम्पनकारिणी ।
तदाज्ञया भवेत्सर्वं न किञ्चित्स्वेच्छया नृणाम् ॥
अघोरचक्षुस्संप्राप्य  तया दत्तं कृपावशात् ।
नत्वा देवं महादेवं  तामाद्यां हंसरूपिणीम् ॥
साक्षात्कारप्रदां देवीमथातो तत्प्रसादतः।
अन्योन्यं  तु समासाद्य अघोरः प्रतिपादये ॥

śivaśaktyātmakaṃ sarvaṃ ghorāghoramidaṃ smṛtam ।
ādhārabhūtā sarvasya ādyā brahmasanātanī ॥
agniśca agnirūpā ca kālakampanakāriṇī ।
tadājñayā bhavetsarvaṃ na kiñcitsvecchayā nṛṇām ॥
aghoracakṣussaṃprāpya tayā dattaṃ kṛpāvaśāt ।
natvā devaṃ mahādevaṃ  tāmādyāṃ haṃsarūpiṇīm ॥
sākṣātkārapradāṃ devīmathāto tatprasādataḥ ।
anyonyaṃ  tu samāsādya aghoraḥ pratipādaye ॥

All that exists is of the nature of Śiva and Śakti.  
The entire universe is pervaded by both terrifying and non-terrifying aspects of reality (ghora - aghora).

The root of all existence is Ādyā (the Primordial One),
She is Brahma-Sanātanī (the Eternal),
the ground and support of all that is.

She is the Fire, the forms of Fire,
and Kāla-kampana-kāriṇī (the mover of time).
By her command, all things come into being;
nothing occurs by the mere whims of human will.

Thus, having received the Eye of Aghora;
a vision of the deepest truth, bestowed by her grace,
I thus bow down to Deva and Mahādeva,
and to her, the Primordial Swan (Haṁsa-rūpiṇī),
the essence of self and source, who bestows direct realization.

Through her grace, and in the union of Śiva and Śakti,
I now enter and establish the path of Aghora.