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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source which is the reverse of the creative movement there
from. The order of production is as follows: Buddhi, then
Ahamkara, from the latter the Manas, Indriya and Tanmatra
and from the last Bhuta. As the seat of the source is in
the human body the cerebrum in which there is the greatest
display of consciousness, the seat of Mind is between the
eyebrows and the seat of Matter in the five centres from
the throat to the base of the spine. Commencement of the
return movement is made here and the various kinds of
matter are dissolved into one another and then into Mind
and Mind into consciousness (SP,p.95).
Sat-Cakra-Bheda: When Kundalini ascends from
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(1) Muladhara where it was sleeping to the next higher
centre, called the (2) Svadhisthana (own place). Thence
with great effort this Sakti is carried to the following
centres in regular ascending order; (3) Manipura (full of
rays); (4) Anahata (sound, not emnating from the collision
of bodies) the Sakti here is transformed into sound; (5)
Visuddhi (place of purity) here it becomes a pure Sattvic
element; and (6) Ajna (a-jna, a little knowledge). At
this stage the practioner may by said to have so far been
sucessful in securing a command over this Sakti, which
now appears to him, though only for a moment, in the form
of a sharp flash of lightening (SP, p.283).
Ana hata Centre ( the heart) is the cretical point
