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therefore the detention of seminal emission, the tantric way.) later, "the bindu (which
means secret language semen virile) does not leave the body while undergoing
khecarimudra. When the bindu reaches the genital region, is forced to retrace path
through the power of yonimudra. This bindu is of two kinds: bianco and red. The bianco
is called Sukla (semen), red is the name of the maharaja. The cracks, coral-like color, is
in ge-Nital organs (in the yogi-tantric texts the cracks does the secretion
12 The number of asana, the text reads (42) is considerable, but the four main ones
siddha, Bhadra, Simha and padma. The list of seven calera jde (44) is the tantric treaty.
Our text details there nodi 72,000 of which only 72 are mentioned in the Scriptures are
the most important round, pin-gala and susumna: Brhadarankaya Up II, 1, 9; Prasna Up
Ill, 9.
khecarimudra enjoys is the extraordinary reputation in the literature tantric yogi-later, to
freeze the semen virile, we obtain immortality. See the texts reproduced by S. Dasgupta,
Obscure Religious Cults, p. 278. See also the following pages of this book.
of the female genital organs). Semen dwells on the site of the moon, halfway between
ajnacakra (regi6n front) and the thousand-petal lotus (Sahasrara). The union of these two
secretions is very rare. The bindu is Siva, and the cracks is Sakti: the semen is the moon,
the cracks is the Sun, by its union gives a perfect body. "In the lexicon of Indian erotica
mistica, all these terms have a precise meaning. Visibly, this is the "split level" of the
unification of the two polar principles (Siva and Sakti) of the transcendence of all
opposites, obtained through a very secret erotic practices, which we'll talk. But now we
should stress the experimental nature of this Upanishad and Tantric.
Verify, then, that this flow of magic erotica, which is multiplied later in the Tantras, was,
in his origins and des-versed in yogic practices, and that from the outset, these practices
encompass certain values, and could be accepted and uti-lized by "vias" multiples.
The technical nature, experimental, of the Upanishads yogi group worthy of note. We
found no longer a requirement) of pure knowledge of the dialectic of the Absolute as the
only instrument of liberation. Atman-brahman identity is not acquired through the
contemplation and simple and pure, but on the contrary, is performed on an experimental
basis, through a technique of an ascetic and mystic physiology: in other words, through a
process of transformation of the human body into a cosmic body in the veins, arteries and
organs clearly true play a secondary role with regard to "centos" and "veins" in which
they can be experienced or "awakened" the forces cos -lance or divine. This tendency to
the concrete and the experimental-even if the "concrete" means almost anatomical
localization of certain cosmic forces is characteristic of all mysticism of the Middle Ages.
The devotion, the cult of personality and subtle physiology happen fossilized ritualism
and metaphysical theories. The road to liberation tends to become ascetic itinerary, a
technique is learned more easily than Vedantic metaphysics or Mahayana.
MAGIC AND YOGA "BRAHMANIZADOS" THE RGVIDHANA
Magi, ascetic, contemplative, they are generally working to see the increasingly
substantial body of ritual texts and com-ments. Sometimes this is only allusions in the
case, for example, a class of cramana, black magicians who speaks Apastamba-sutra (2,
IX, 23, 6-8): "make your wishes for the Simply thinking about them, eg (desire to) make
it rain, or to give fertility, clairvoyance, to move as rapidly as thought, or other similar
desires. Certain siddhi become like a leitmotif, especially the ability to move and fly
through the air Samaveda a brahmana of the Samavidhana specializes in magic, includes