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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Lastly Udana has close relationship with death.
To leave all parts of the body gradually is the function
of Udana. At the time of death the Indriya Vritti or
Bahya Jnana becomes weak and Chesta-Vritti stops, then
only main Prana Vritti especially in Udana Starts.
A renowned doctor, Dr. Willsa remained 'dead like'
for half-an-hour due to high fever and later on got life
again. He wrote about his feeling of death in the magazine
of the society for physical research as such, "After a
little time the lateral motion ceased along the soles of
the feat beginning at the toes, passing rapidly to the
hals, I felt heard as it seemed, the breaking of innumer-
able small cards. When this was accomplished, I began
slowly to retreat from the feet towards the head as a
rubber cord shortens." It indicates that retract of all
sensations from the different parts of the body is the
function of Udana. In other words the feeling of sensations
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in different tissues of the body is the function of
udana. In their normal state one feels healthy but in
their vitiated state one feels seek(Ref-Aranya)
1) BYAN
The ten nadis arising from Hridaya in upward,
downward and sidewards carry Anna Rasas with the help
of ten Pranas (Bharata). So Vayu is the motivating energy
or force in the muscular walls of autery and veins.
So all the function of propulsion of Anna Rasas
