Kundalini is the Devata or the governing Intelligence in the Muladhara. She is so called because she manifests Herself in the form of a serpent. This Supreme Force, called also Mulaprakriti, illumined by the Light of the Supreme Atman, generates Prana, etc. Prana is Vayu or the Universal Force of activity, specified, on entering each individual being, into its vitality in its five-fold function. Agni, in one of its forms, is the digestive fire in the stomach. Agni and Prana are mentioned together in the Yoga-sastra under the designations of sun and moon. These are the Devatas of Ida and Pingala to be mentioned below. Bindu is the unmanifested sound; and Nada is the manifested sound in general, the Omkara, that form of sound which is common to all articulate sounds, and which one may hear on closing both the ears. All these are generated and propelled by Kundalini. She is also. called Sarasvati when, in one of her aspects as prana, she manifests herself in the nada, and then in the form of articulate sounds.

The Muladhara, the primary seat of the three great Nadis, has been thus described in some detail in order that the devotee who seeks illumination may meditate upon it for the purpose.

14-15. Starting from the apex of the

[paragraph continues] Muladhara, the Sushumna reaches the Brahmarandhra; it is like a half-cut bamboo at the root, and has six supports.

The Sushumna manifests itself at the apex of the Muladhara and extends into the cavity of the head. It is uniform throughout, long and straight, visible only to the yogins. The six supports of the Sushumna, called Chakras, have each of them a particular form and a particular seat of its own. They may be presented in a tabular form as follows:--

Name of Chakra.

Its form

Its seat.

1. Muladhara

Four-petalled lotus

Muladhara.

2. Svadhisthana

Six-petalled lotus

Linga or organ of generation.

3. Manipuraka

Ten "

Navel.

4. Anahata

Twelve "

Heart.

5. Visuddha

Sixteen "

Throat.

6. Ajna

Two "

Region between the two eyebrows.

15-16. Starting from the corners thereof there are two Nadis, Ida and Pingala. These, as the Yogins say, constitute the Nadi-chakra, or Nadi-system. Thence all nadis proceed.

Ida lies on the left, and Pingala lies on the right. They extend up to the basis of the forehead.

16-22. Gandhari and Hastijihva run up to the eyes. Joined to the Nadi-chakra, there are two nadis reaching up to the nose. Starting from the region of navel called Nadi-chakra, which is shaped like a hen's egg, Pusha, and Alambusha nadis