Verse 13

In plain words

Will is the power, Umā, the maiden. For this yogin who has reached such a stage of yoga: The will of the yogin who has attained the supreme Bhairava state is Śakti, Umā, the supreme power of the Supreme Lord herself, whose form is freedom. And she is the maiden, kumārī, intent on the play of creating and withdrawing the universe, as the root kumāra is read in the sense of "play". Again, she is one whose nature is to slay ku, the ground of māyā that raises up difference, that is, to keep it from spreading. And she is a maiden in that she cannot be enjoyed by another, shining as one with the enjoyer. Or else: as Umā the maiden, having given up all attachment, is ever intent on the worship that brings oneness with the Great Lord, so is his will. So our gurus saw the reading and so they explained it. But others read śaktitamā, "most powerful", and have explained it as her pre-eminence over knowledge and action. So this yogin's will is not gross, as it is in the worldly, but is the supreme power itself, unobstructed everywhere. As the Svacchanda says: "That goddess abides with the names and forms of all goddesses, hidden by yogamāyā, the maiden who brings the worlds into being." And in the Mṛtyuñjaya Bhaṭṭāraka too: "That will of mine is the supreme power, never separate, born of my own nature; know it as the heat of fire, as the rays of the sun; and that power is the cause of the whole world." This is set out by implication in the verse: "For he does not act as the one who drives the impulse of will; rather, by touching the power of the Self, the person becomes equal to it."