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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The Sun and the Moon, in some of the caryos
are further connected with Kali (consonants beginning
with Ka) and ali (vowels i.e. vowels and consonants have
been made into the anklets and the sun and the moon
into rings of the ears (Bagchi, P.C., 1939, p.63).
Kundali as Mahamatrika sundari has fifty-one
coils, which are the Matrikas of subtle forms of the
gross letters or varna which is the vaikhari f酶rm of
the sabda at the centres. undali when with one coil is
bindu, with two, Prakrti-Purusa; with three Saktis
(Iccha, Jnana, Kriya) and three gunas (satva, Rajas and
Tamas); with the three and a half she is then actually
creative with Vikrti; with four she is Devi Ekagata,
t
and so on to Srimatrike pattisundari with fifty-one coils.
In the body, unmanifested Para-sabda is in Kundali-sakti
(SP, p.116-117).
According to an inner explanation given in the
Indian Tantra-Sastra this string of heads is the Gerland
of letters (Varnamala), that is the fifty, and as some
count it, fiftyone letters of the sanskrit alphabet. The
same interpretation is given in the Buddhist Dechog
Tantra in respect of the Gerland worm by the great Hemka
(See Sri Cakra Sambhaba- A Buddhist Tantra) (GL-265).
m
n
ru
In the Indian system the total number of the
petals corresponds with the number of the letters of the
