OM Aspirants

Upon reading the file article, Geometry of Circannual Rhythms, by K.
Chandra Hari,I found this statement, "Some adepts of this form of
yoga [Hatha]have developed powers which cannot fully be accounted for
by European medical science and which cannot be explained away as
subjective but the physiological basis of laya - and hatha -yoga is
certainly false; there is no kun.dalinī, susumna or
sahasrāra."

Never has any adept claimed that there is a physiological basis for
laya/hatha yoga. In fact, quite to the contrary, any informed person
will state categorically that there is no physiological basis
laya/hatha yoga.

Furthermore, to claim as the author does that as there is no
physiological basis for laya/hatha yoga, therefore, there is no
kundalini, sushumna or sahasrara, is an egregious violation of the
rules of logic. One conclusion simply does not and cannot follow from
the other.

The truth of the matter is that the astral body, i.e. the system of
chakras and nadis, has a particular shape and the human body takes
its shape because of the shape of the astral body. In humans, there
are points of correspondence between the astral and physical bodies
but there is not identity. The entire point of laya/hatha yoga is
rise above identification with the physical.

The astral and physical bodies have correspondence at various nerve
plexii and also parts of the endocrine system. The astal and physical
systems influence each other but remain independent of each other.
Death, as we know, is defined as the astral body simply leaving the
physical body through the sahasrara chakra and severing all
connection with it

I have heard and read many people trying to discredit the idea of an
astral body because they were attempting to evaluate it from
physiological and western scientific viewpoints. This approach is a
non-starter and doomed to failure. The conceptual and logical
mistakes of these people is not justification for the denunciation of
the chakra/nadi system.

Om Namah Sivaya

Omprem