Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c19.80

c19.80

⁹ SP, p. 76. I find that Dasgupta, in the second volume of his History of Indian Philosophy, takes this position. He says: ‘How far the cakras can themselves be called nerve-plexuses is very doubtful, since the nerve-plexuses are all outside the spinal aperture; but if the kuṇḍalinī is to pass through the aperture of the citriṇī nāḍī and at the same time pass through the cakras, the cakras or the lotuses (padma) must be inside the spinal cord. . . A nerve-