without loosing its own stock of energy. In conduction, energy flows over into another thing, so that the source loses and the other thing gains what it has lost, and its gain is similar in kind to the loss. Not so induction. There the source does not lose, and the induced energy is equivalent and opposite in kind to the inducing energy. Thus a positive charge will induce an equivalent negative charge in a neighbouring object. Now, shall we suppose that the Muladhara, when it becomes over-saturated, induces in the neighbouring centre (say, Svadhishthana) a dynamic (not static) equivalent? Is this what the rise of the Serpent Power really means? The explanation, I am tempted to think, is not perhaps altogether fantastic."

Footnotes

^25:* "Approaches to Truth", "The Patent Wonder", valuable presentments in modern terms of the ancient Vedantic teaching.

^29:2 That Kundalini in the static Shakti.

^30:3 Certainly.

^31:4 The process of fertilisation is dealt with in the Matrikabheda Tantra.

^31:5 This outflow and inflow is a common Tantrik notion.

^34:6. Overcharged.

^40:7 "Having drunk, having drunk, having again drunk", a passage in the Kularnava Tantra signifying not actual drinking (as some suppose), but repeated raising of Kundalini.

^40:8 We may say "Take a magnet" and "magnetism".

^41:9 Here is the seat of the first moving, or Pashyanti Shabda.

THE ASANS OF YOGA

The first Asan gives strength, and cures diseases of the muscles and nerves of the body. There are eighty-four Asans. Some of them are used to retain youth; others are used to produce calm, peace and harmony.