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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and the universe is cit which has become its own object.
The word Vak comes from the root 'vach' which means
"to speak" (GL,p.1).
The root "Man" means "to think" and suffix "tra"
indicates the saving character of Mantra. Mantra is a
"thought movement vehided by and expressed in speech"
and as being a
"
sound (GL, p.243).
power in the form of idea clothed in
Strictly speaking all uttered sounds are Mantras,
all uttered speech having a common origin or development
but in the more usual sense, Mantra means those letters
or combination of letters which are used in upasana and
Mantrayoga and are the Mantras of the Devatas of Sastrik
worship (GL, p.243).
Mantra-Vidya is the science of thought and of its
expression in language as evolved from the logos or Sabda-
brahman itself (GL,p.250).
Mantrartha-Bhavana is forming of a mental image
of the Divinity (Let, thinking of meaning of mantra or
thinking of Matrika in manka which constitutes the Devata
from foot to head (GL, p.310).
When an object (Artha) is presented to the mind
and perceived, the latter is formed into the shape of the
object perceived. This is called a mental vritti (modifi-
cation), which it is the object of yoga to suppress. The
