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Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

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a white drop, which is the nectar dripping down to vishuddhi chakra. It is the ultimate<br />

source out of which all things manifest and into which all things return.<br />

"......(bindu) is the cause of the creation of word and meaning, now entering and now<br />

separating from one another."<br />

".....from that (bindu) came ether, air, fire, water, earth and the letters of the alphabet."<br />

Kama-Kala-Vilasa (verses 6-9)<br />

Bindu visarga is interconnected with vishuddhi chakra in the same way that the minor<br />

centers of the digestive system are connected with manipura, and those of the uro-genital<br />

and reproductive systems with swadhisthana and mooladhara chakras. Similarly, the<br />

minor centers of the respiratory and circulatory systems are integrated into anahata<br />

chakra and so on. In each case, the connection is mediated <strong>by</strong> the particular group of<br />

nerves associated with that chakra. Bindu and vishuddhi are connected via the network of<br />

nerves which flow through the interior portion of the nasal orifice, passing through lalana<br />

chakra, which is found at the uvula or palate. Therefore, when awakening takes place in<br />

vishuddhi, it simultaneously takes place in bindu and lalana.<br />

The ten paired cranial nerves which emerge along the brain stem from their<br />

associated centers or nuclei, are considered to actually have their initial origins within<br />

this tiny center, so that the whole visual, nasal, auditory and tasting systems are<br />

ultimately manifestations from bindu.<br />

The location point<br />

The seat of bindu is at the top back of the head, exactly at the spot where the Hindu<br />

brahmins leave a tuft of hair growing. Although this custom is still being followed today,<br />

its original purpose has been completely forgotten. In Sanskrit that tuft of hair is called<br />

shikha, which means 'the flame of fire'. Here, the word 'flame' stands for the flame of<br />

vasanas or the hidden karmas belonging to the previous life.<br />

During the period of sandhya, when the child underwent the thread ceremony and<br />

was initiated into mantra, they used to hold and tighten this tuft as much as possible and<br />

then tie it. When the tuft was tightened and the child practised mantra, he developed a<br />

powerful and continuing awareness of this bindu point alone. He felt tightness rather than<br />

pain at that point. This is one traditional way to gain contact with bindu visarga.<br />

Tantric physiology<br />

According to tantric tradition, within the higher centers of the upper cortex of the<br />

brain there is a small depression or pit which contains a minute secretion. In the center of<br />

that tiny secretion is a small elevation or point like an island in the middle of a lake. In<br />

the psychophysiological framework, this tiny point is considered to be bindu visarga.

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