Vaj wrote: > Yes, that's because kundalini is the essence (rasa) of prana > and prana is the essence of life. > Yes, but doesn't the Sanskrit term "rasa" refer to the sacred ambrosia, sexual fluid, the essence of life, described in the Tantras? Rasa isn't mentioned in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras which predate the Tantras.
'The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India' by David Gordon White University Of Chicago Press, 1998 > Beyond that, I wouldn't read too much into it because his > knowledge of kundalini-vidya was clearly lacking. > Beyond that, I wouldn't read too much into it except to note that once again you've got your Indian history all mixed up. The Tantras were composed during the Gupta Age. The term prana in Hatha Yoga refers to the breath, not to rasa - rasa is nectar, a warm fluid, sometimes extracted from plants like the sacred mushroom and sometimes from women dakinis. 'Biographies of Rasik Saints' by H.D. Swami Prakashanand Saraswati ISDL, 1981 P.S. Have you ever considered using a standard Sanskrit lexicon? Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon: 1 rasa m. the sap or juice of plants. Mercury, quicksilver (sometimes regarded as a kind of quintessence of the human body, else where as the seminal fluid of Shiva; semen virile RV. i, 105, 2. http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/cgi-bin/tamil/recherche
