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activity of these two subtle veins. But there is a second meaning: Women's knowledge
(prajna) and the language effort, through action (upaya) are both trying to stop the Gnosis
as the energy wasted in the realization, and this "immobilization" can only be gained
through Yoga (detenci6n of respiration). The "detention of respiration" in this context be
understood as they accompanied the arrest of seminal emission. Kanha expressed in his
cryptic style: "I thought Inmovil encompasses the Enlightenment (trans. Shahidullah, is
also reflected by the Awakening Thought) despite the dust that adorns it. You see a lotus
seed, pure nature, in his own body. " The Sanskrit commentary explains, if the maithuna
(pulling) the sukra (s semen) is emitted, also thought remains motionless (Shahidullah).
Indeed, the "dust" (rajas) is the "slices of the women-res" (both menses and genital
secretions) during the maithuna, the yogi cause the release of its compafiera, while his
Cukra immobilized, with the double effect of which on one hand and stops her thinking
that the other becomes capable of absorbing "the seed of the lotus" (= the cracks).
Accordingly, we find the three "retention" or "immobility ties" that speak hathayoguis
texts (see p. 240): deten-tion of breath, semen and thought. The deep significant pieces of
this "freeze" is not easy to discover. Before ad-dress their study, Ml stop at the ritual
function of sexuality in ancient India and yogis-tintricas techniques.
* i Shahidullah mistakenly introduced him as a "nihilistic": see Les Chants et Kanha
mystiques Doha-Kosa, P. 14: "Kanha and Saraha are n hilistas. As for other philosophers
madhyarnikas, there is nothing bhava or nirvana, or bhava (being) or abhava (nonbeing).
The truth is innate (sahaja) is that emptiness. " Kanha rejects the "mind of the duality of
the pairs of opposites, the condioionamientos, and seeks the non-con-conditioning
(sahaja).
THE EROTICA MISTICA
The meithuna is known since the Vedic times, but I play to Tantrism turned into
instruments of salvation. Distinguishing We in India pre-tantric, two values possible
ritual sexual union, the other two, on the other hand, the archaic structure of incontestable
antigiiedad: 1) the marital union as sacred, 2 °) orgiastic sexual union, which aims either
universal fruitfulness (rain, crops, rebafios, women, etc..), or the creation of a magic
defense. "Do not dwell on the marital act transformed into something sacred: jyo am the
sky, you are the Earth! "says the husband and wife (Brhad. Up, VI, 4, 20). The union is a
ceremony which includes a lot of foot-limiriares purification, symbolic approvals and
prayers, all of which takes place in a Vedic ritual. The woman is previously transfigure
bay, has become the sacred place where the slaughter occurs: "The lap is the altar, the
hair is the lawn, the skin is the winery of the holy spirit, fire is the middle of the vulva 82
Both were obtained by sacrificing vajapeya, who obtained both sa-biendolo well below
practice game ... " (ibid., VI, 4, 3). Note-ing a very important fact: since the Brharanyaka-
UpanishadsQ imposes the belief that the fruit of the "works"-the result of a Vedic
sacrifice, can be obtained by a marital union ritual consumption. The identification of the
sacrificial fire with the female sexual organ is confirmed by the magic spell that is
exerted on the woman's lover: "You've sucked in my fire", etc.. (ibid., VI, 4, 12). A ritual
detail of the union when it is desired that the woman conceives, he betrays some confused
ideas related to the reabsorption of semen: After exhaled, the inhaled saying my force,