योगबीज (गुरु गोरखनाथ परम्परा - महायोग, प्राण-अपान एकत्व एवं कैवल्य-सिद्धि सटीक)

चित्तं प्राणेन संनद्धं सर्वजीवेषु संस्थितम् । रज्जुर् यद्वत् परीबद्धा रज्जवा तद्वद् इदं मनः ॥ ७९ ॥ cittaṃ prāṇena saṃnaddhaṃ sarvajīveṣu saṃsthitam | rajjur yadvat parībaddhā rajjvā tadvad idaṃ manaḥ || 79 || 79. The mind bound with the breath, is established in all living beings, just as a rope is bound (together) by (coiled) cords, so is this mind (bound by the breath¹).

1. The unknowing (who do not know how to practise prāṇāyāma) are bound by the breaths inability to raise and straighten the dormant procreative life-force energy (Kuṇḍalī Śakti) which remains coiled (and tethered) at the base of the spine. “Her sleep in the Mūlādhāra, is, therefore, for the bondage of the ignorant.” – Chapter I, Śāṇḍilya Upaniṣad. नाना विधैर् विचारैस् तु न साध्यं जायते मनः । तस्मात् तस्य जयोपायः प्राण एव हि नान्यथा ॥ ८० ॥ nānā vidhair vicārais tu na sādhyaṃ jāyate manaḥ | tasmāt tasya jayopāyaḥ prāṇa eva hi nānyathā || 80 ||
2. Control of the mind cannot be accomplished by various means of contemplation, therefore, the way to conquer it is indeed through breath alone, not otherwise.¹
3. One cannot conquer the mind with the mind (which is like a dog chasing its own tail), the trans-mental unmanī state, can only be achieved by control of the breaths (energy). तर्कैर् जल्पैः शास्त्रजालैर् युक्तिभिर् मन्त्रभेषजैः । न वशो जायते प्राणः सिद्धोपायं विना प्रिये ॥ ८१ ॥ tarkair jalpaiḥ śāstrajālair yuktibhir mantrabheṣajaiḥ | na vaśo jāyate prāṇaḥ siddhopāyaṃ vinā priye || 81 ||
4. By arguments, idle talk, (entangled in the) nets of scriptures, logic, mantras, and medicines, prāṇa does not come under control, without the method of the perfected, beloved. उपायं तस्य विज्ञाय योगमार्गो प्रवर्तते । खण्डज्ञानेन तेनैव जायते क्लेशभाङ् नरः ॥ ८२ ॥ upāyaṃ tasya vijñāya yogamārgo pravartate | khaṇḍajñānena tenaiva jāyate kleśabhāṅ naraḥ || 82 ||
5. Knowing the method of that, the path of Yoga proceeds. By fragmentary knowledge, man becomes afflicted, (suffering from the misery of delusion).