Siva Samhita
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAE051 |
| Author: | Rai Bahadur Srisa Chandra Vasu |
| Publisher: | Indian Mind, Varanasi |
| Language: | (Text With English Translation) |
| Edition: | 2012 |
| ISBN: | 8186117130 |
| Pages: | 158 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 7.0 inch x 5.5 inch |
| Weight | 160 gm |
Book Description
The Shiva Samhita is a Sanskrit text on yoga enumerating its concepts and cognate principle. In the five Chapters are discussed and elaborated the essentials necessary for the practice of yoga ways of attaining siddhi the philosophy of existence importance of yoga the spirits maya or illusion the microcosm the functions of the body the principle of pranayama or breathing asanas or postures the Kundalini and its awakening the various forms of yoga etc.
An important treatise on the subject, the present edition, Text with English translation will prove the immense value to the scholars readers and students.
| Chapter One | |
| Existence one only | 7 |
| Diffierences of opinion | 8 |
| Yoga the only true method | 11 |
| Karma Kanda | 11 |
| Jnana kanda | 14 |
| The Spirit | 19 |
| Yoga and Maya | 22 |
| Definition fo a Parama hamsa | 23 |
| Emanation or Evolution | 24 |
| Absorption or Involution | 26 |
| Karma clothes the Jiva with body | 29 |
| Chapter Two | |
| The microcosm | 31 |
| The Nerve Centre | 32 |
| The Nerves | 34 |
| The Pelvic Region | 36 |
| The Abdominal Region | 39 |
| The Jivatma | 40 |
| Chapter Three | |
| On Yoga Practice: The Vayus | 45 |
| The Guru | 47 |
| The Adhikari | 48 |
| The Place Etc | 50 |
| The Pranayama | 51 |
| The Things to be renounced | 54 |
| The means | 54 |
| The first stage | 56 |
| The second and third stage | 57 |
| Vayusiddhi | 57 |
| Increase of duration | 60 |
| Siddhis or perfections | 60 |
| The Ghata Avastha | 61 |
| The Parichaya | 62 |
| The Nispatti | 64 |
| The Postures | 70 |
| The Padmasana | 71 |
| The Ugrasana | 72 |
| The Svastikansana | 73 |
| Chapter four | |
| Yoni Mudra: the sacred drink of the Kaulas | 75 |
| The Awakening of Kundalni | 79 |
| Maha Mudra | 80 |
| Maha Bandha | 82 |
| Maha vedha | 83 |
| Khechari | 86 |
| Jakandhara | 88 |
| Mula Bandha | 89 |
| Viparit karana | 90 |
| Uddana Bandha | 91 |
