Essay name: The Nervous System in Yoga and Tantra (Study)
Author:
Ashok Majumdar
Affiliation: Banaras Hindu University / Department of Kayachikitsa
This study deals with the presentation of the Nervous System in Yoga, Tantra and Ayurveda. Yoga and Ayurveda are allied sciences dealing with science of man in depth. This study has revealed a number of hither to unknown facts about concept of nervous system and thought science of Hindus.
Chapter 3 - Scientific exposition of Nadi, Hridaya, Kosa and Prana
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When a man has concentrated his energies, he
masters Pranas in is his body. When a man is meditating,
he is also concentrating the Prana (p.46-47). Raja-yoga
is the science which teaches us now to gain power of
concentration (Vivekananda, p.49).
The obvious manifestation of this Prana in the
human body is the motion of the lungs, and this motion
is associated with the breath. The Prana is moving the
lungs, the movement of the lung, draws in the air. So
Pranayam is not breathing, but controlling muscular power
which moves lung (p.41) when Prana has become controlled,
then we shall immediately find that the other actions of
the Prana in the body will slowly come under control
(Vivekanand,p.42).
2 Prana does not mean gross beath, but that which
in the respiratory centres appears as such and which
appears in the other forms in the other functions and
parts of the body (woodroffe, 1972, p.173 FN).
On the physical plane Prana manifesto in the
animal body as breath through inspiration (Sa) or Sakti
and expiration (Ha) or Siva. Breathing is itself a mantra,
known as the mantra which is not recited (Ajapa mantra)
for it goes out, and by Sahkara it comes again. A Jiva
always recites the Supreme Mantra Hamsah (Woodroffe,
1972,p.88).
