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YOGA KUNDILINT-UPANISHAD
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In the first day of the lunar fortnight and during new moon and full moon (days) it should be made firm and there is no other way (or time). A man longs for an object through passion and is infatuated with passion for objects. One should always leave these two and seek the Nirvana (the stainless). He should abandon everything else which he thinks is favorable to himself. Keeping the manas in the midst of Sakti, and Sakti in the midst of manas, one should look into manas by means of manas. Then he leaves even the highest stage. Manas alone is the bindu, the cause of creation and preservation. It is only through manas that bindu is produced like the curd from milk. The organ of manas is not that which is situated in the middle of Bandhana. Bandhana is there where Sakti is between sun and moon. Having known Sushumna and its bheda (piercing) and making the Vayu to go in the middle, one should stand in the seat of bindu, and close the nostrils. Having known Vayu, the abovementioned bindu and Satwa-prakriti as well as the six chakras (plexuses), one should enter the SukaMandala (viz., Sahasraram or Pineal gland, the sphere of happiness). There are six plexuses (chackras). Muladhara (Sacral plexus) is in the anus; Swadhisthtana (Prostatic plexus) is near the genital organ ; Manipuraka (Epigastric plexus) is in the navel; Anahata (Cardiac plexus) is in the heart ; Visuddhi (Laryngeal or Pharyngeal plexus) is at the root of the neck, and Agneya (Cavernous plexus) is in the head (between the two eyebrows). Having known these six Manda
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