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 3 - Scientific exposition of Nadi, Hridaya, Kosa and Prana
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activity enters another body (Patanjali's yoga aphorisms
3:30
Ref. Raja yoga by Vivekananda).
The yogi can enter a dead body and make it get
up and move, even while he himself is working in another
body. Or he can enter a living body and hold that man's
mind and organs in check, and for the time being act
1 through the body of that man. That is done by the yogi
coming to this discrimination of Purusha and nature. If
he wants to enter another's body, he makes a Samyama on
that body and enters it, because, not only in his soul
omni present, but his mind also, as the yogi teaches. It
is one bit of the universal mind. Now, however, it can only
work through the nerve currents in his body, but when yogi
has loosened himself from these nerve channels, we can
work through other things (Vivekananda, p.234 commentry
on Patanjali's yoga Sutra 3:39). Refer to the book Shankar-
vijayam where it has mention that Jagat Guru Sankaracharya
use to leave his own and used to enter others body. He
also used to instruct his desciples to protect his lijaless
body so that any damage of any part of the body should not
happen.
CAUSAL, SUBTLE AND GROSS BODY (SP-Woodroffe, 1972, p.65)
The first or causal body of any particular Jiva,
therefore, is that Prakriti (Avidya-Sakti) which is the
cause of the subtle and gross bodies of this Jiva which
are envolved from it. This body lasts until liberation,
