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Yogashikha Upanishad (critical study)

by Sujatarani Giri | 2015 | 72,044 words

This page relates ‘Anahata cakra (The heart centre)� of the English study on the Yogashikha Upanishad—a 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—particularly 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 2.1d - 󲹳ٲ cakra (The heart centre)

Unstruck sound�. The fourth psychic centre, indicated physically by the heart 󲹳ٲ cakra is situated in the suṣumnā ḍi (ܰṣm centre). It has control over the heart. It corresponds to the cardiac plexus in the physical body. This corresponds to mahar loka. The cakra is of deepnet colour. Within this cakra there is a hexagonal space of smoke or deep black colour or the colour of collyrium (used for the eyes). This cakra is the centre of maṇḍala region of air, ( tattva). From here twelve yoga ḍi emanante which appears the petals of the lotus. The sound that produced by each ḍi is represented by the following Sanskrit ٳٱ�kam, kham, gam, gham, gnam, cam, cham, jam, jham, jñam, tam and . The vījākṣara yam, the īᲹ of is here. The presiding deity is ś (Rudra) and 𱹲 is 쾱Ծ. In the mūlādhāra cakra there is svaymbhu ṅg and in 󲹳ٲ cakra we have ṇa ṅg. Kalpa vṛkṣa, which gives all the desired things, is here. 󲹳ٲ sound the sound of Śabda Brahman is heard at this centre. When a Dzī does śīṣāsԲ for a long time, he can distinctly near this sound. tattva is full of sattva guṇa. Viṣṇu granthi is in this ٳԲ.

He who meditates on this cakra has full control over tattva. He gets ū siddhi, khecari siddhi, kāya siddhi etc. (flying in air, entering the body of another). He gets cosmic love and all other divine ٳٱ qualities.

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