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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The Mantra, "OM is composed of three letters A, U,M-
of which the first two vowels coalace into 0. Over the OM
is written the sign candra-bindu or Nada and Bindu, shown
as a crescent with a dot or point over it (GL, p.254).
The first Mantra into which a child is initiated
is Ma or Mother for that is its first word and Mother is
often the last word on the lips of the dying (GL, p.253).
On the physical plane Prana manifests in the animal
body as breath through inspiration (Se), or Sakti and
expiration (Ha) or Siva. Breathing is itself a Mantra,
known as the Mantra which is not recited (ajapa-Mantra)
for it is said without Valition (Nirttara Tanta, Ch. IV Ref.
S7, p.88).
21 particular Mantra therefore (such as the ayatri)
is not a mere collection of words. Though a non-believer
it may seem but a string of mere letters bearing on their
face a particular meaning or in the case of Bija Mantras
apparently no meaning at all, to the Sadhaka it is very
mass of radiant Tejas or energy. An ordinary collection
of words is something gross. These all else are forms of
Sakti. But the Mantra of which we speak is the Devata
Himself or Herself in Mantra body Mantra is thus a mass
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of radiant energy. Sayings give information and advice to
men of the world, while Mantras awaken super-human power
of akti (Gu, p.306).
