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.

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.

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To enable his commentary on this scripture to endure down through the ages, Swami Lakshmanjoo left it in two other forms:

(i) a series of videos gracing each verse, which over a few years, John Hughes of the Lakshmanjoo Academy recorded, and

(ii) Swami Lakshmanjoo's textual embodiment of the tapes, The Manual for Self-Realization: 112 Meditations of the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (edited by John Hughes).

Both are treasures! In each, Swamiji comments on the scripture while responding to questions from his students. Swamiji emphasizes that the video version transmits his teaching with a higher level of fidelity.