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Raja-Yoga - 1.5. Swami Vivekananda : Chicago 1893.

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 ====================================================================== ======================================================================= Thursday, August 04, 2022. 09:26. Volume-1.. ======================================================================== CHAPTER IV : THE PSYCHIC PRANA ======================================================================= CHAPTER IV THE PSYCHIC PRANA According to the Yogis, there are two nerve currents in the spinal column, called Pingalâ and Idâ, and a hollow canal called Sushumnâ running through the spinal cord. At the lower end of the hollow canal is what the Yogis call the "Lotus of the Kundalini". They describe it as triangular in form in which, in the symbolical language of the Yogis, there is a power called the Kundalini, coiled up. When that Kundalini awakes, it tries to force a passage through this hollow canal, and as it rises step by step, as it were, layer after layer of the mind becomes open and all the different visions a