The Hindu Temple v1.c5.s5.9

v1.c5.s5.9

⁷³ The Cakras of the microcosm are: Mūlādhāra, the support of all the Cakras; Maṇipūra, the seat of mind (manas); Svādhiṣṭhāna, the seat of intellect (buddhi); Anāhata, the seat of the principle of articulate sound (Śabda brahman); Viśuddhi, the seat of Ether (ākāśa) which is the substratum of the quality (guṇa) sound; Ājñā, the seat of knowledge (bodhana); and Sahasrāra or Śiva-Śakti or Bindu, the point limit between the unmanifest and the manifest. ‘Vācaspatya’, s.v. The eight Cakras are also given as the eight means necessary to control the inclinations of the inner faculties. They are: Yama, restriction, Niyama, observances, Āsana, sitting posture, Prāṇāyāma, breath control, Pratyāhāra, emptying the mind from external objects, Dhāraṇa, its subsequent concentration, Dhyāna, keeping it concentrated and Samādhi, merging and dissolving in the object of its concentration (‘Tantrarāja-Tantra’, XXVII. 54-55).