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 Yoga kundalini upanisad says: "That Vak
(Power of speech of Logos) which sprouts in Para gives
forth leaves in Pasyanti, bunds in Madhyama and blossoms
in Vaikhari. By reversing the above order sound is
absorbed (GL-p 250-252).
Kali is the Deity in that aspect in which it
withdraws all things which it had created itself. Kali
is so called because she devours Kala (Time) and then
resumes her own dark formlessness( GL, p.261-262).
Thou
Because Thou devourest Kala, art called Kali
and because Thou art the origin of and devomest all things
Thou are called the Adya-Kali (GL, p.262).
He alone worships without fear, who has abandoned
all wordly desires, and seeks union with Her as one
Blissful and Perfect experience. On the burning ground
all wordly desires are burnt away (p.263) (GL-p.263).
When Kali withdraws the world, that is the names
and forms which the letters segnify, the dualism in
consciousness, which is creation, varushes. There is neither
"I" (Aham) nor "This" (Idam) but the non-dual Perfect
Experience which Kali in Her own true nature (Svarupa) is.
In this way Her Gerland is understood (GL, p.267).
Dr.Rakhal Das Roy has given in his book very
interesting interrelationship of the Matrikas at different
places in relation to the human body, Planets, Nakshatras
