सङ्गीतरत्नाकर: प्रथम भाग (शार्ङ्गदेव - स्वरगताध्याय सविस्तार व्याख्या व अनुवाद सहित)

84 Treatment of Svara
20. उपसंहारः
इति प्रत्यङ्गसंक्षेपो विस्तरस्त्विह तत्त्वतः ।
अस्मद्विरचिते ऽध्यात्मविवेके वीक्ष्यतां बुधैः ॥११९॥
20. Concluding remarks: 119
Such has been the brief treatment of the sub-organs.
The enlightened ones interested in a detailed study may refer
to our work entitled "Adhyātma-viveka". (119)
As it has been stated earlier, Śārṅgadeva was himself a qualified
doctor and wrote another work referred to above on anatomy and
medicine. But this book is probably not available today. Here he
completes his treatment of human embodiment.
It has been noted (vide our comments on 1 ante) that Śāradā-
tanaya, a contemporary of our author has quite independently and
very briefly dealt with human embodiment in the context of geya-
samutpatti (the creation of music). It will be interesting to take a
comparative view of the manner of their treatment of the subject and
to discover the difference in the point of their emphasis.
Śāradātanaya deals with the following topics in his exposition of
geya-samutpatti which obviously determines his approach and relative
emphasis :
"Announcement for expounding geya, music—the thirtysix ele-
ments of creation—the creation—the entry of the knowing self into the
womb—the genesis of human embodiment—description of the body
produced from the womb, classification of prāṇa-s, their place and
function—the ten gross nāḍī-s of the heart—their bifurcation into 700
nāḍīs and so on." (cf. Bhāvaprakāśanam, pp. 180-184-Baroda Ed.)
A similar number of subjects related to human body is dealt with
in conjunction with the production of sound. A list of these subjects
will be given in Section three (8c-9), although much of what is said by
him is also relevant to the next topic of this Section, viz., "Genesis-The
Psycho-physical Viewpoint", but all the same he does not explicitly deal
with the psycho-physical centres of the body.
Section 2: The Genesis of the Human Embodiment
घ. हठयोगानुसारि निरूपणम्
(i) दशचक्राणि

1. आधार-चक्रं कुण्डलिनी च
   गुदलिङ्गान्तरे चक्रमाधाराख्यं चतुर्दलम् ।
   परमः सहजस्तद्वदानन्दो वीरपूर्वकः ॥१२०॥
   योगानन्दश्च तत्र स्यादेशानादिवले फलम् ।
   अस्ति कुण्डलिनी ब्रह्मशक्तिराधारपङ्कजे ॥१२१॥
   आब्रह्मरन्ध्रमुजुतां नीतेयममृतप्रदा ।
   D. Genesis: The psychophysical viewpoint.
   (i) Ten cakra-s (psychophysical centres): 120-145b
2. Ādhāra-cakra and kuṇḍalinī : 120-122b
   Situated in-between¹ the anus and the genitals is the
   basic psychic centre called the 'foundational cycle' (ādhāra-
   cakra), a four-petalled lotus as it were. The petals named
   Six psycho-physical centres are conceived in the astral body of
   man by certain schools of Yoga, specially, the kuṇḍalinī-yoga, the mantra-
   yoga, the rāja-yoga, etc. These function as the centres of consciousness
   at various planes and concentration and control of one or many of these
   centres bestows enormous psychic and occult powers. However, the aim
   of yoga is to train the mind to concentrate upon and penetrate through
   all these six psycho-physical centres and thereby to attain complete
   mastery over the physical and the astral body and freedom from the
   limitations of mind and matter.
   The first centre spoken of in this verse is named mūlādhāra, which
   literally means the basic support, the foundation. Here at this centre
   the kinetic energy is said to be asleep in a static mood and it can be
   aroused through meditation. The four-petalled lotus spoken of in the
   text is a symbolic expression used as an aid to meditation on the centre,
   when the slumbering energy is awakened, it rushes through the spinal
   cord to the next higher centre at a terrific speed, and the aspirant finds
3. Corresponding to the sacrococcygeal plexus.