The Nervous System in Yoga and Tantra (Study)
by Ashok Majumdar | 1981 | 72,079 words
This study deals with the presentation of the Nervous System in Yoga, Tantra and Ayurveda. Yoga and Ayurveda are allied sciences dealing with science of man in depth. Whereas Yoga and Tantra are the rich sources for the knowledge of nervous system and its biological and metaphysical aspects. This study has revealed a number of hither to unknown fac...
15. Kapha as Apya
Similarly the Kapha or Slesman of the body is nothing but a combination of the five Bhutas, the Jalabhuta predominating. It may, therefore, be called Jaliya or Apya, having got the characteristic moist and viscid properties of Ap. But because, due to the conjunction of the other four Bhutas, it gets new and seperate properties of its own, and because it has a distinctive form in a human body, it has been called by a seperate name, kapha, just as the same substance water, when by different causes. and by combination with different substances takes on new forms, is called by different names Tusara (Snow), Hima (Dew) and Karaka (Ice). A question may be pertinently asked now. Like Pitta and Kapha, the Vayu of the body should also be considered as Pacabhautika. Then why, like the other two, has it not
254 been called by a different name, instead of being designated by the universally recognised term of Vayu?