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were the case the necessity for purely physical measures to combat the danger would not arise. It is therefore obvious that the danger apprehended and the disturbances feared must be of a physical nature. The danger is particularly related to pranayama. In Hatha-Yoga practices, pranayama is the lever by which the serpent power is awakened. Performed in the prescribed manner, says Hatha-Yoga Pradipika 2.41 , pranayama purifies the nerve-circuit enabling prana in good form to pierce the mouth of...
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used as an inducement to the seekers for undertaking the disciplines. The two most convenient asanas for any kind of Yoga are the padmasana and the siddhasana. In the former the right foot is placed on the left thigh and the left foot on the right thigh, with the heels pressing against the pudenda, and the hands either placed in a similar manner, the right hand on the left thigh and vice versa, or simply each hand on the thigh of the same side. In the other asana one heel is pressed against the...
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biology, the development of new techniques and more improved methods will follow instantly as a matter of course. Patanjali divides the whole process of Yoga into eight parts, or limbs. These are yama restraint , niyama discipline , asana posture , prana-yama control of breathing , pratyahara control of senses , dharana concentration , dhyana unbroken contemplation , and samadhi complete absorption . The Hatha-Yoga and Laya-Yoga have also the same eight divisions. There are minor differences in...
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Tantra vii. 39,40,41,50 it is said that he who worships the Adya-Kali kundalini Mistress of the three worlds Becomes in learning like Brhaspati the Guru of the Celestials , in wealth like Kubera the god of riches . . . . Men bow with respect at the mere mention of his name. The eight siddhis i.e., the power to become exceedingly large or extremely small or light as a feather, to float in space, or to become invisible to sight, or to enter the bodies of others, to be clairvoyant, clairaudient,...
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physical frame. In the same manner the term nadis, frequently used in the treatises on Hatha Yoga, is held to signify channels of psychic energy or invisible prana that have no identity with the network of nerves, veins, and arteries distributed over the whole body. There can be no denial of the fact that the potent pranic current generated by the body, on the awakening of kundalini, is of such a marvellous nature, and acts with unerring precision and superhuman intelligence, that it reaches...
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robust constitution, being often fraught with danger, particularly in the initial stages, the practice of shatkarma seems to have introduced to give a tone to the system and to offset the injurious effects resulting from the overstrain and the disorganization caused in the body by the drastic exercise. Proficiency in shatkarma before beginning the practice of pranayama, says Hatha-Yoga Pradipika, is necessary for one who has excess of phlegm in him. But for one who is free from these defects...
Kundalini Fact and Fiction
The general idea prevailing about Kundalini, in both the East and the West, is of a mysterious and fabulous power lying dormant in men, which, when roused to activity, can confer amazing psychic gifts and transhuman states of consciousness on the successful initiates. The belief is current in India and elsewhere that those, in whom the energy vivifies the seventh centre in the brain, are transmogrified and attain unlimited dominance over the forces of nature. This belief is fostered by the high...