“The Practical Posture of Nirvikalpa Gnyana Yoga Samadhi of the Gnyana Guru Rishi Yogi Sabapathy Swamy.”
“Or the Practical Process of Holding Communion with the Universal Self Infinite Spirit or God let the Disciples be blessed with Success in this Practice.”
CPSPS Diagram 5
Picture Key:
brahmarandhra [lit. “crevice of Brahman,” fontanel]; akhaṇḍa brahma jñāna śiva liṅgākāra “Universal Circular Infinite Spiritual Orb with Sun, Moon, Stars, Planets, World &c., in its everywhere”
suṣumnā jñāna nāḍī “Sooshumna Nadi”
suṣumnā jñāna nāḍī “Sooshumna Nadi”
“two nerves [that] run into two eyes and stop there, the middle branch coming down a little above the middle part of the nose”
“two nerves [that] run into two eyes and stop there, the middle branch coming down a little above the middle part of the nose”
śvāsa nāḍī “nerves of the breath”
anna nāḍī “nerve of matter” [i.e., food]
bhū loka “Our world,” “the earth”
“Pathala Lokum” [pātāla loka, MW: “one of the 7 regions under the earth and the abode of the Nāgas or serpents and demons”]
sūrya “Sun”
candra “Moon”
navagraha “the planets” [+ lunar nodes Rahu and Ketu]
nakṣatra “the stars”
yogadhyāna abhyāsī “the meditator” [lit. “practitioner of yoga meditation”]
[not present in diagram]
nāsi dvāra “middle part of the nose called Nasikamadhya Randhra”
akhaṇḍa brahma jñāna śiva liṅgākāra “Universal Circular Infinite Spiritual Orb with Sun, Moon, Stars, Planets, World &c., in its everywhere”
mūlādhāra kuṇḍalī “Kundali or the lower part of the spinal cord”
“two fingers of the [left] hand”
“two fingers of the [right] hand”
“two toes of the [left] feet”
“two toes of the [right] feet”
gudā “Anus”
Source:
The Mahathma Brumha Gnyana Mavuna Guru Sabhapathy Swamy Yogiswer, Om. The Cosmic Psychological Spiritual Philosophy and Science of Communion with and Absorption in the Infinite Spirit, or Vedhantha Siva Raja Yoga Samadhi Brumha Gnyana Anubuthi, Second Book (Bombay: Karnatak Press, 1890).