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(1) The karmic aperture conducive to the awakening of the supersensuous consciousness; (2) an organ of the body which is the plexus, a connecting link with vigilant intellection. In ancient literature, the words juncture, aperture, hole, wheel, lotus, plexus etc. are used synonymously. The juncture stands for sușumnā? (the central nervous cord) which is between idā and pinglā; also it stands for aperture." Juncture and aperture are both used for sușumnā.
The synonymity of aperture, hole and lotus is found described in the Siva-samhitā)(5.153):6 'Inside the thousand petalled lotus, there is situated the aperture of susumnā together with its root. The aperture is called the brahma-aperture which is also the same as the lotus at the bottom.'
The light of supersensuoos knowledge spreads out of the karmic aperature. In the Nandī Cūrṇī, it is said: the purity of the karmic particles in the soul-points is found in the body to act in a particular direction. This is the reason why the clairvoyance due to the purity is described as situated in the body. In the case of the purity of all the soul-points the clairvoyance that functions in a particular direction is described as situated in the body.
The doctrine that confirms such view is also available at other places.
In connection with clairvoyance, the word karana is explained as an organ of the body or a part of the body through which the clairvoyant knows the objects. The organs are of various shapes.''
In the Suśruta Samhitā," two hundred ten junctures and one hundred seven sensitive points are mentioned. The juncture is the meeting point of bone, muscle and sinews.12 The junctures are of eight kinds.13 At the sensitive centres there is abudance of vitality.14 In the opinion of Mallisena, the sensitive centres are the parts of the body, dominated by many soul-points.15 The plexus of consciousness are situated within sensitive centres. 16 In the Hathayoga and similar scientific literature, the meeting points of vitality and consciosusness are approved of as the bases of meditation. 17
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