Haṭhayoga Pradīpikā

Haṭhayoga Pradīpikā (C.E.15th century), 15th-century Sanskrit text on haṭha yoga.

The Hathapradīpikạ, also called Hatha Yoga Pradipika, is an important and one of the most influential texts of the Hatha yoga. Displayed in the Schoyen Collection, near Oslo, Norway

Incipit

We salute Ādinā:tha who introduced us to Haṭha Yoga, which like a staircase leads the adept towards the peaks of Raja Yoga.

Quotes:

• [She] who manages to retain the sperm that the partner has deposited in her and to make it go back into her body, mixed with her own rajas , this is a yoginî perfect. (III.102)
• One should stimulate that sleeping serpent by grasping its tail. Then that shakti , awakening from her torpor, will be forced to rise upwards. It should be done with the paridhana technique and, by inhaling through the solar channel, one will have its awakening every day for ninety minutes, morning and evening.

One should arouse that sleeping serpent by seizing its tail. Then that shakti, awakening from her slumber, forcefully rises upward. One should seize the reclining serpent by means of paridhana and, while inhaling through the solar channel, every day cause her to stir for about ninety minutes, both morning and evening. (III.111-112)

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