Layayoga: The Definitive Guide to the Chakras and Kundalini (95 page)

Soma    The anabolic principle of the body.

Sthulakriya    A muscular control process.

Sukshmakriya    A breath-control process.

Supreme Bindu    Supreme power-concentration.

Surya kumbhaka    Right-nostril inspiratory breath-control.

Surya pranayama    Right-nostril inspiratory breath-control.

Suryabheda    Right-nostril breath-control.

Surya-mandala    Manas chakra.

Susumnadhyanayoga    Concentration-on-centresin-sushmna.

Sushumnadwara    The entrance to the sushumna nadi in the muladhara centre.

Sushumna Kundali    The chitrini as power which creates the inner-most void, termed brahmarandhra, through which Kundalini passes.

Swanana    Germ-mantra. Its abbreviated form is swanon.

Tamas    The primary inertia-principle.

Tanmatras    Concentrated sense forces, termed tanons.

Tanons    Tanmatras.

Tantrika    Relating to the Tantras; Tantric.

Tantrika yoga    An exposition by Shiwa (or Parwati) of Waidika yoga, in which various processes have been clearly explained and new ones incorporated, and which has been collected in the Tantras.

Tapas (or Tapasya)    Energizing process; static posture exercise to develop vital endurance and will power; ascesis; vigorous disciplining of body and mind.

Tejas mahabhuta    Fire metamatter.

Thought-concentration    Bhawana yoga.

Trikonashakti    Kundalini, when in the muladhara centre.

Trirasra    A triangle.

Udanana    The centripetal vital force-motion.

Uddiyana    Abdomino-retraction.

Udyana    The process of adamantine control and suction-power. (Also termed Udriyana.)

Ujjayi    Both-nostrils breath-control.

Unmani    Concentrated consciousness.

Wachaka-power of mantra    Kundalini in sound-form which appears as dewata by japa and concentration.

Wachya-power of Mantra    Mahakundalini As Supreme Consciousness, realized when concentration on Kundalinias dewata is transformed into superconcentration.

Waidhi-bhakti    Ritualistic or devotional divine love.

Waidika    Relating to the Wedas; Vedic.

Waidika yoga    The original form of yoga, concealed in the Weda-mantras of the Sanghitas of the Weda in a contracted and highly technical Shrouta language, and explained and elaborated in the Upanishads

Waikhari    Acoustic.

Waikhari-mantra    A mantra which is audible.

Wajra-kumbhaka    Adamantine suspension—a special form of breath-suspension for the conduction of the roused Kundalini.

Wajroli    The adamantine control process of sex energy.

Warna    The specific power-line created by the operation of the force of a matrika-unit.

Wasana    The latent impression of feeling.

Wayu    That which exhibits constant motion; the motional or active state of pranic force.

Widya    Knowledge.

Wijñana    Intellection.

Wisarga    (1) The power-bridge, connecting the brahmarandhra with the guru chakra, through which Kundalini passes.
(2) That which separates sahasrara proper from Supreme Bindu.

Wisheshaspanda    A particularized motion releasing a particularized sound.

Wishnu    Supreme Consciousness, manifesting the power of sustaining the creation; God as sustainer.

Writti    Mentimultiformity; an imaged consciousness ; a knowledge-form; also a nonconscious form; an objective image.

Wyana, wyanana    Oupanishada terms for breath-suspension.

Wyanana    The diffused vital force-motion.

Wyayama    A controlled movement system to develop the body; physical education; muscular exercise.

Yajñastoma    The germ of power-manifestation which in Tantrika terms consists of Supreme Nada and Bindu.

Yama    Control; abstention—the first stage of control or discipline in the eightfold yoga (ashtangayoga).

Yoga-nidra    The state of non-mens supreme concentration; asamprajñata samadhi,

Yogasana    A posture in yoga; concentration posture.

Yoga-wibhuti    Omnipotency; great yoga-power.

Yojana    Union.

Yoni    The perineum; a triangle; a triangular-shaped region. (Also called kamakhya, kamarupa, kama and yonisthana.)

Notes

Introduction

1
  Sarkar, Professor Benoy Kumar,
Hindu Achievements in Exact Science
, Longmans, Green, London, 1918, p. 59.

2
  Seal, Brajendranath, MA, PhD,
The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus
, Moti Lai Banarsi Dass, Delhi, 1958, pp. 219–21.

3
  Manawalattwa,
by the author of the
Aryashastrapradipa, N.C. Mookerjee, Mahalakshmi Press, Barahanagar, 1901, p. 158.

4
  Brahmachan, Purnananda, Sarala Yoga Sadhana, a treatise in Bengali on yoga Mitra Brothers, Calcutta, 1926, Preface, p. 12.

5
  Rele, Vasant G., FCPS, LM & S,
The Mysterious Kundalini,
DB. Taraporevala Sons, Bombay, 7th edn, 1928, pp. 23–7.

6
  Wiwekananda (Vivekananda), Swami,
Raja-Yoga
, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Centre of New York, Inc., New York, 1946.

7
  Sachchidananda, Swami, Saraswati,
Gurupradipa
, Shyambal Chakrabarti, Calcutta, 2nd edn, 1930, pp. 225–6.

8
  Aurobindo, Sri,
On Yoga II
, vol. 1, Sri Aurobindo International University Centre, Pondicherry, India, 1958, pp. 369, 373.

9
  Sen, Gananath, Mahamahopadhyaya, Kaviraj, M.A., L.M.S., Saraswati,
Pratyaksha
-
Shariram
(Human Anatomy in Sanskrit), 3rd edn, Kaviraj Charu Chandra Bisharad, Kalpataru Ayurvedic Works, Calcutta, 1924, Introduction, p. 14; Third part, p. 3.

10
  Rele, op. cit.

11
  Seal, op. cit.

12
  Brahmachari, op. cit.

13
  Wiwekananda, op. cit.

14
  Sen, op. cit.

15
  Seal, op. cit

16
  Rele, op. cit.

17
  Sen, op. cit.

18
  Aurobindo, Sri,
On Yoga I
,
The Synthesis of Yoga
, Sri Aurobindo International University Centre, Pondicherry, India, 1957, p. 611.

19
  Aurobindo, Sri,
On Yoga II
, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 259.

20
  Shankaracharya was born in the village of Kaladi, in Kerala, South India. His date has not been finally determined, but AD 788 has been generally accepted. But according to an old register of the Gurus, mentioned by Swami Sachchidananda in his work entitled Guru Pradipa, op. cit., p. 3, footnote, the latter was born in AD 130.

21
  Shankaracharya, Ananda Lahari, Verses 9 and 10.

22
  Shankaracharya, Yogatarawali, Verses 6 and 8.

23
  Born in Holia, near Vizianagram, South India, in 1608. He left his body in Waranasi (Benares) in 1888.

24
  Tailanga Swami, Mahawakya-Ratnawali, 1.13, 14, ed and trans. Umacharana Mukhopadhyaya, Yogendranatha Mukhopadhyaya, Calcutta, 1917.

25
  Born in Halisahar (near Calcutta) in 1723. He was a celebrated member, known as a ‘gem’ of the court of Maharaja Krishna Chandra of Nadia (West Bengal, India).

26
  Sena, Ramaprasada, ‘Rampasad Sener Granthabali’, Padawali, Nos 215 and 216, n.d., Basumati-Sahitya-Mandir, Calcutta.

27
  Born in the village of Kamarpukur in Hooghly district, West Bengal, India, on 18 February 1836.

28
  (a) M(Mahendranath Gupta),
Shrishriramakrishnakathamrita
, 5 vol, Anil Gupta, Kathmrita Bhaban, Calcutta, India, (b) Saradananda, Swami,
Shrishriramakrishnaleelaprasanga
, 2 vol, Swami Atmabodhananda, Udbodhan Office, Calcutta, India, 1957.

29
  Wama (Wamacharana) was born in a village named Ada in the Birbhum District, West Bengal, India, in 1835.

30
  Essentially based on Chattopadhyaya, Pramode Kumar,
Tantrabhilaseer Sadhusanga
, Part II, Mitra and Ghosh, Calcutta, n.d.

31
  Cf Shyam Sundar Goswami,
HATHA-YOGA An advanced method of physical education and concentration
, 2nd edn, L.N. Fowler, London, 1963, pp. 104–6.

32
  Rele, op. cit.

33
  Avalon, Arthur (Sir John Woodroffe),
The Serpent Power
, 5th edn, Ganesh, Madras, 1953, pp. 297–313.

34
  Wiwekananda, op. cit.

35
  In Aurobindo,
On Yoga II
, vol. 2, op. cit.

36
  
Ibid.

37
  
Ibid
.

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Yoginthridaya

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Bhagawata

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Brahmawaiwartapurana

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