The Nervous System in Yoga and Tantra (Study)
by Ashok Majumdar | 1981 | 72,079 words
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. Whereas Yoga and Tantra are the rich sources for the knowledge of nervous system and its biological and metaphysical aspects. This study has revealed a number of hither to unknown fac...
Concept of the Human Body
This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; non is greater than man. Even the Devas (gods) will have to come down again and attain salvation through a human body. Man alone attain to perfection, not even the Devas. This is the only living apparatus through which one can practice and can have control over energy. Even if God wants to merge with Brahma and no rebirth, then he has to meditate through this body even.
64 Dhyana (Yoga Sutra III:3) is the seventh component of yoga. - "when after According to Vigyanabhikshu in yogasara samgraha achievising dharana on some point, One's mind has succeeded for a sufficient time to hold itself before itself under the form of the object of meditation, without any interruption caused by the instruction of any other function, one attains Dhiyana". Dhyana is the uniform continuous contemplation of the object of throught and that Samadhi which is called savikapa samadhi.' "