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In the Yogachudamani Upanishad Bindu is a duality, with a white Bindu representing shukla (pure) and a red Bindu representing maharaj . The white Bindu resides in the bindu visarga and is related to Shiva and the Moon, while the red Bindu resides in the muladhara chakra and is related to Shakti and the Sun. [4]
Paul Deussen states that the title has two meanings, the first being "the esoteric doctrine of a bindu (point) or nada (reverberation) of the word Om which signifies Brahman", while the second meaning is a drop which grants immortality. [6] The discussion of Om by the text, states Deussen, suggests that the former meaning may be more ...
The bindu is of two kinds, the male being bīja, semen, and the female being rajas, the "female generative fluid". [14] The text is the first, too, to link the bindu with the mind and breath, whose movements cause the bindu to move; and the first to state that the yogic practices of mahāmudra, mahābandha and mahāvedha can force the breath to ...
Inside the bindu is the seat, near which are the gurus footstools, upon which are the gurus feet. [10] This position is considered very important in Tibetan tantric practice of deity yoga , where the guru or deity is often visualized as above the crown, bestowing blessings below (for example in the Vajrasattva purification meditation).
The relative chronology of the text is placed by Mircea Eliade with the ancient Yoga Upanishads. He suggests that it was composed in the same period when the following texts were composed – Maitri Upanishad, the didactic parts of the Mahabharata, the chief Sannyasa Upanishads and along with other early Yoga Upanishads such as Brahmabindu, Brahmavidya, Tejobindu, Yogatattva, Kshurika ...
Anusvara (Sanskrit: अनुस्वार, IAST: anusvāra, IPA: [ɐn̪usʋaːrɐh, ənʊswaːr]), also known as Bindu (Hindi: बिंदु, IPA: [bin̪d̪uː]), is a symbol used in many Indic scripts to mark a type of nasal sound, typically transliterated ṃ or ṁ in standards like ISO 15919 and IAST. Depending on its location in the ...
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Bindu (Sanskrit: बिंदु) is a term meaning "point" or "dot". Bindu may also refer to: Bindu (symbol), a point symbol in Indian religions; Bindu, India, village in Darjeeling district of West Bengal India; Anusvara, a diacritical mark in Indic scripts represented as a bindu or dot; Nuqta, diacritical mark in Indic scripts represented as ...