meditation 12

Meditate on

the Central Channel

(madhya nāḍī)

as of microscopic fineness . . .

Meditating on the void

within the Central Channel . . .

Divine Light shines . . .

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Notes:

The Central Channel makes its debut in one's awareness as the Solar and Lunar energies dissolve their individualities into its void.

The boys of bliss

are skilled in embracing

their girlfriends of emptiness.

. . .

Sun and moon,

robbed of their wind-steeds

what have they to ride on

but the Central Channel?

And what they enter

is the Palace of Union

a combination path traversed

in an instant.

Dan Martin, who translated these lines of Zhangzhunpa into English, informs us that "the context here, being yogic, surely refers to the Central Channel of the subtle body. Successful yoga practitioners, whether Buddhist or Nath, dissolve the solar and lunar currents into the Central Channel."

See: VEIL OF KASHMIR: Poetry of Travel and Travail in Zhangzhungpa’s 15th-Century Kāvya Reworking of the Biography of the Great Translator Rinchen Zangpo (958 – 1055 CE), by Dan Martin

Swami Lakshmanjoo's commentary on this verse (No. 35) is beautiful. You can find it in his Manual for Self Realization (John Hughes, ed.).

Swami Lakshmanjoo and Pandit Dina Nath Muju's original translation reads as follows:

Verse 35

Meditate on the central nerve (Madhya Nadi) in your spinal cord, as of microscopic fineness. Thus meditating, on the void, Divine Light shines.