The Nervous System in Yoga and Tantra (Study)
by Ashok Majumdar | 1981 | 72,079 words
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. Whereas Yoga and Tantra are the rich sources for the knowledge of nervous system and its biological and metaphysical aspects. This study has revealed a number of hither to unknown fac...
4. The concept of Dhvani
Motion may be either produced or unproduced. The latter is the causal stress itself and the former the effect of it. For this reason it is called Anahata. This Ana hata Sabda which is Brahman movement is heard in the heart which it has produced and which it causes to pulse, a movement which we can feel and hear (p.269). The abda is of two kinds Dhvani and Varma. The first is illustrated in sound given forth by a drum and alike. In the production of the second the throat organ is exercised and it is manifested as Ka,kha, and the other letters of Alphabet letters or varnas are manifested as in the case of sounds of articulate speech. The former class are called Dhvanis and the latter Varanas (GL,p.270). Dhvanis are (1) gross embodiments (Anitya, Vikari) of Nitya, Avikari Varna Sabdas; (2) other gross sound either produced in nature such as the sound of starm or produced by ourselves such as laughter or the sound of musical instruments) which do not appear to us as enbodying varna (Gu, p.277).