Hatha Yoga Pradipika

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Detail of a 19th-century manuscript copy of the 15th century Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Schoyen Collection, Norway

The Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā (

Nathas. It is among the most influential surviving texts on haṭha yoga, being one of the three classic texts alongside the Gheranda Samhita and the Shiva Samhita.[1]

More recently, eight works of early hatha yoga that may have contributed to the Hatha Yoga Pradipika have been identified.

Title and composition

Hatha Yoga Pradipika 2.40–41, 2.77, translated by Mallinson & Singleton
As long as the
rajayoga state.[2]

Different manuscripts offer different titles for the text, including Haṭhayogapradīpikā, Haṭhapradīpikā, Haṭhapradī, and Hath-Pradipika.

Raja Yoga.[4]

Summary

yogin in meditation, showing the chakras and the three main nāḍīs (channels) of the subtle body. A small serpent, representing the Kundalini
, climbs from the base of the central nāḍī.

The Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā lists thirty-five earlier Haṭha Yoga masters (

bandha), energy (prāṇa), channels of the subtle body (nāḍī), and energetic seals (mudrā).[5]

It runs in the line of

Pārvatī
.

Mechanisms

Early Bindu model
Late Kundalini model
The Hatha Yoga Pradipika presents two contradictory models, one involving stopping the flow of Bindu, the other involving Kundalini and encouraging the flow of Amrita, to explain how Hatha Yoga leads to immortality, without attempting to harmonise them.[6]

The Hatha Yoga Pradipika presents two contradictory models of how Hatha Yoga may lead to immortality (moksha), both culled from other texts, without attempting to harmonise them.[6]

The earlier model involves the manipulation of

Sushumna nadi, the central channel of the subtle body.[6]

The later model involves the stimulation of Kundalini, visualised as a small serpent coiled around the base of the Sushumna nadi. In this model, the mudras serve to unblock the channel, allowing Kundalini to rise. When Kundalini finally reaches the top at the Sahasrara chakra, the thousand-petalled lotus, the store of Amrita, the nectar of immortality stored in the head, is released. The Amrita then floods down through the body, rendering it immortal.[6]

Modern research

The Hatha Yoga Pradipika is the hatha yoga text that has historically been studied within yoga teacher training programmes, alongside texts on classical yoga such as Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.[7] In the twenty-first century, research on the history of yoga has led to a more developed understanding of hatha yoga's origins.[8]

Khecarīvidyā. He has identified eight works of early hatha yoga that may have contributed to its official formation in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. This has stimulated further research into understanding the formation of hatha yoga.[9]

Jason Birch has investigated the role of the Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā in popularizing an interpretation of the Sanskrit word haṭha. The text drew from classic texts on different systems of yoga, and Svātmārāma grouped what he had found under the generic term "haṭha yoga". Examining Buddhist tantric commentaries and earlier medieval yoga texts, Birch found that the adverbial uses of the word suggested that it meant "force", rather than "the metaphysical explanation proposed in the 14th century Yogabīja of uniting the sun (ha) and moon (ṭha)".[10]

References

  1. ^ Master Murugan, Chillayah (20 October 2012). "Veda Studies and Knowledge (Pengetahuan Asas Kitab Veda)". Silambam. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  2. ^ Mallinson & Singleton 2017, p. 162.
  3. ^ "Svātmārāma - Collected Information". A Study of the Manuscripts of the Woolner Collection, Lahore. University of Vienna. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  4. ISBN 978-81-85574-01-1
    .
  5. ISBN 978-81-208-1706-7
    .
  6. ^ a b c d Mallinson & Singleton 2017, pp. 32, 180–181.
  7. ^ Mallinson & Singleton 2017, p. ix.
  8. ^ See, e.g., the work of the members of the Modern Yoga Research cooperative
  9. ^ "Dr James Mallinson". Modern Yoga Research. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  10. JSTOR 41440511
    .

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