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...
Samyama (i.e., Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi)
The three- Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi together are called Samyama. That is, if the mind can first concentrate upon an object and then is able to continue in that concentration for a length of time, and then, by continued concentration,
66 to dwell only on the internal part of the perceptions of which the object was the effect, everything comes under the control of such a mind. This meditative state is the highest state of existance. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemptative, witness like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in his spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity (Vivekananda, p.92).