हठयोग प्रदीपिका (योगी स्वात्माराम - ज्योत्स्ना टीका सहित सटीक)

HAṬHAYOGAPRADĪPIKĀ 57
[from the Mūlādhāra upwards] becomes free, without
doubt.
109. Between the Gaṅgā and the Yamunā, there
sits the Bālaraṇḍā [i.e. Kuṇḍalinī, literally, a young
widow], practising austerity. She should be seized by
force. That [leads to] the supreme seat of Viṣṇu.
110. Iḍā is the holy Gaṅgā and Piṅgalā is the
river Yamunā. Between Iḍā and Piṅgalā, the young
widow is Kuṇḍalinī.
111. By seizing the tail that sleeping serpent
(Kuṇḍalinī) should be awakened. Then, that Śakti,
throwing off her sleep, rises up with force.
The commentator says that the secret of this process must be
learnt from a Guru.
112. Having inhaled through the right nostril
(piṅgalā), the recumbent serpent should be taken hold
of by the process of paridhāna, and made to move daily
for about an hour and a half, both morning and evening.
The commentator adds that the process of paridhāna should
be learnt from a Guru. The process described is the movement
of the abdominal muscle from left to right and right to left in a
spiral (see The Serpent Power, 1964, p. 207).
113. [The kanda] is twelve finger breadths
(aṅgula-s) above [the anus] and four aṅgula-s in breadth,
soft and white, and appearing as if it were a rolled
cloth.
Two aṅgula-s above the anus and two below the penis is the
middle of the body. The kanda is nine aṅgula-s from the middle