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 5 - Exposition of Thought science, Tantra and Mantra
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illustrated in this cosmologically centered Tantra-yoga
Thesis (hills, 1970, p.1).
Cakra and Bhutas
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The Bhutas and the Tanmatras,
as parts of these compounds, pervade the body, but,
particular Bhutas are said to have centres of forces in
particular regions. Thus the centres (cakra) of "Earth"
and "water" are the two lower trunk of the body. "Fire"
predominates in the central abdominal region, and "Air"
and "Ether" in the two higher centres in the heart and
throat. These five Tarmatras, five Bhutas, and the ten
senses (Indriyas) which perceive them, are known as the
twenty gross Tattvas which are absorbed in yoga in the
centres of the bodily trunk. The remaining four subtle
mental Tattvas (Buddhi, Ahamkara, Manas and Prakriti)
have their special centres of activity in the head (SP,
p.83).
Again, the Bhutas may be specially displayed in
other portions of the bodily organism. Thus Prithivi
displays itself as bone or muscles, Apas as urine and
Salwa; Tejas as hunger and thirst, Vayu in grasping and
walking, Fire is many fold, so Tejas manifests both as
light and heat, Agni manifests in the household and
umbilical fires, as Kamagin in the Muladhara centre (SP,
p.83-84).
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Cakra and Vrittis It is stated that particular Vrittis
