Yogashikha Upanishad (critical study)
by Sujatarani Giri | 2015 | 72,044 words
This page relates 鈥楰undalini and the six doors leading to Brahma randhra鈥� of the English study on the Yogashikha Upanishad鈥攁 key text from the Krishna Yajurveda, focusing on the pinnacle of Yogic meditation. This essay presents Yoga as a crucial component of ancient Indian philosophy and spirituality and underscores its historical roots in Vedic literature鈥攑articularly the Upanishads and Vedant. The chapters of this study are devoted to the faculties of the mind and internal body mechanisms such as Chakras as well as the awakening of Kundalini.
Part 2.3 - 碍耻峁囜笉补濒颈苍墨 and the six doors leading to Brahma randhra
[After 碍耻峁囜笉补濒颈苍墨 then passes to 迟腻濒耻办补-cakra i.e., the cavernous plexus of the sympathetic system which is situated at the base of the skull and hence joins the 腻箩帽腻-肠补办谤补]
碍耻峁囜笉补濒颈苍墨 or 办耻峁囜笉补濒墨 then joins her lord 笔补谤腻-艢颈惫补 the (Olivary body) who has the form of a dot 鈥淥鈥� (vindu-谤奴辫补) and is situated in the itara-濒颈峁単补 (medulla oblongat), which has the pericarp of Brahma-cakra (cerebrum), 办耻峁囜笉补濒颈苍墨 thus connects herself with Brahma-randhra, the cavity in the brain, when the Brahma, i.e. the soul, is located and the knowledge of which the 测辞驳墨 seeks to attain. It is this cavity which is guarded by six doors and 办耻峁囜笉补濒颈苍墨 is the only force that can open them. It is this cavity, where 辫谤腻峁嘺 i.e. energy centers all its activities, it is here, where the soul is carried to reside; it is here that the unruly citta, i.e. the mind-stuff, is captured and made steady by the process of 辫谤腻峁嚹乱腻尘补; it is here that the citta is sub-merged in 辫谤腻峁嘺, this submersion bringing all the activities of the mind and 辫谤腻峁嘺 to a standstill, it is only when the mind and the 辫谤腻峁嘺 act as two separate entities that they run riot and keep the soul in the bondage of 尘腻测腻, i.e. the surrounding objects of the senses. The soul thus made free from the thraldon of the intellect, feels its own joy and sees itself鈥斺�渟o ham鈥� i.e. 鈥淚 am that鈥� or 鈥淚 am He鈥�, literally 鈥淭hat am I鈥�.
Though the soul is freed from the shackles of 辫谤腻峁嘺 and citta, it is still made to remain there by the current of 惫腻蝉补苍腻, which is guarding the orifice of this cavity in the form of 办耻峁囜笉补濒颈苍墨, the cord of desire. These desires are likely to throw back the soul under the control of 辫谤腻峁嘺 and citta (the mind stuff) and successive rebirths are the result. This is not what the 测辞驳墨 desires; he wants to escape this, which can only be done by tearing assunder the cords of desire i.e. by bringing 办耻峁囜笉补濒颈苍墨 under control and when 办耻峁囜笉补濒颈苍墨 is made to obey the callings of the soul, the soul escapes from this cavity to occupy another cavity called 腻办腻艣补, which sorrounds the brain and the spinal cord.
The soul, thus made free from the central of 辫谤腻峁嘺 citta and 惫腻蝉补苍腻, lives outside the Brahma-cakra, i.e. the cerebrum and is said to pervade the whole universe. When the 测辞驳墨 attains this state he is said to be in the nirvikalpa 蝉补尘腻诲丑颈 i.e. seedless 蝉补尘腻诲丑颈 by which he gets in tune with the infinite and is freed from rebirths.