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 5 - Exposition of Thought science, Tantra and Mantra
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She is the static form of creative force in bodies which
is the source of all energies including Prana (p.17).
The Kundalini at the Muladhara is the whole
primodial sakti in monad or germ or latency; that is
why it is coiled. The Kundalini that mounts up the Nadi
is also the whole sakti in a specially dynamic form
an eject likness of the Eternal Serpent (p.346). This
Kundalini Sakti when moves to manifest itself, appears
as the universe (p.41). She is only the diffused five fold
Irana gathered home-withdrawn from the other tissues of
the body and concentrated in a line along the axis (p.345).
Vivekananda said, the rousing of the Kundalini
may come in various ways, through love of God, through
the mercy of perfected sages or through the power of
the analytic will of the philosopher (Raja yoga, n.60).
woodroffe says, it is in this Susumna (whatever
for the moment we take it to be) that there are centres
of Prana-sakti or vital power which are called Cakras
or Lotus (SP, p. 171). The lotuses are the centres of the
universal consciousness. Kundalini is the static form
of all creative energy in bodies which is the source of
all energies including Prana (SP, p. 17).
The term Cakra has been used as a replica of
Sun who is a source of all creation and life (Prana
Kendra) and as usually it is represented by a wheel in
