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Prāṇa is typically divided into constituent parts, particularly when concerned with the human body. While not all early sources agree on the names or number of these divisions, the most common list from the Mahabharata , the Upanishads, Ayurvedic and Yogic sources includes five classifications, often subdivided.
The number of nadis of the human body is claimed to be up to hundreds-of-thousands and even millions. The Shiva Samhita treatise on yoga states, for example, that out of 350,000 nadis 14 are particularly important, and among them, the three just mentioned are the three most vital. [1] The three principal nadis are ida, pingala, and sushumna. [2]
But in the human body, ...The brain is alive only because of Prana... an enlightened person ... [becomes] compassionate and more detached. There would be less ego, without any tendency toward violence or aggression or falsehood. The awakened life energy is the mother of morality, because all morality springs from this awakened energy.
Lexically, chakra is the Indic reflex of an ancestral Indo-European form *kʷékʷlos, whence also "wheel" and "cycle" (Ancient Greek: κύκλος, romanized: kýklos). [4] [5] [6] It has both literal [7] and metaphorical uses, as in the "wheel of time" or "wheel of dharma", such as in Rigveda hymn verse 1.164.11, [8] [9] pervasive in the earliest Vedic texts.
Kundalini yoga (kuṇḍalinī-yoga) is a spiritual practice in the yogic and tantric traditions of Hinduism, centered on awakening the kundalini energy.This energy, often symbolized as a serpent coiled at the root chakra at the base of the spine, is guided upward through the chakras until it reaches the crown chakra at the top of the head.
The etheric body, ether-body, or æther body is a subtle body propounded in esoteric and occult philosophies as the first or lowest layer in the human energy field or aura. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The etheric body is said to be in immediate contact with the physical body and to sustain it and connect it with "higher" bodies.
Different Mudra were developed to balance these [7] in human body which form the Hasta Mudra in yogic tradition and are used in Naturopathy. The three dosha - three intrinsic tendencies, which, according to Ayurveda are intrinsic in every human being, are representation of combination of these five elements in human body.
In the Hindu tantric view, Shakti correlates with the Kundalini energy. [35] Shakti is considered the "creative dynamic energy" that permeates and "animates" all existence. [36] [37] In the Brihannila Tantra, the God Shiva says: "O Goddess I am the body (deha) and you are the conscious spirit within the body (dehin)". [38] "Shiva without Shakti ...