Hindu Medicine c8.10

c8.10

The breathing technique of Kuṇḍalinī-yoga is intended to establish these mystic centers in consciousness and bring them into play. Each center has the shape of a lotus calix showing different colors and a certain number of petals and certain symbols of its own; it forms the seat of one specific divinity who impersonates and presides over the corresponding sphere of the universe. Again, through this pattern applied to the human body, man is afforded the means by which to experience his own nature as the exact counterpart of the world organism; he visualizes his body as enlivened and ruled by the same divine hierarchy which activates the life-process of the universe.