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 2 - The Eight Components of Yoga
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and is by for the most satisfaction. I have been tought
several varieties, but non of them is of much outstanding
importance that it should be recommended for practice. I
was directed to use bhastrika to purify the nadis; however,
those who are unable to develop bhastrika, as I have
described it, can use this standard method alternate
breathing.
Patanjali mentions only 4 kinds of pranayama.
Manifestation as external, internal and total restraint is
regulated by place, time and number; and thus it becomes
long in duration and subtle. The fourth is that which follows
when the spheres of the external and internal have been
passed. By place is meant the duration of these which is
called Matra. This is generally considered to be equivalent
to our second. Vachaspati in his gloss on this aphorism
says, A "matra" (measure) is the time which is taken up by
thrice turning up ones hand over one's knee and then
swapping the fingers ones. Measured by such 36 such matras
is the first attempt (udghata) which is mild. Twice that
is second, which is middling. Thrice that is the third, which
is intense. This is the Pranayama as measured by number
of Patanjali ( YS II 50-1).
PRANAYAMA AND (MEDITATION) POSTURE
"You must practise at least twice every day, and
the best times are towards the morning and the evening...
Make it a rule not to eat until you have practised.
