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

yogāt parataraṃ puṇyaṃ yogāt parataraṃ sukham | yogāt parataraṃ sūkṣmaṃ yogamārgāt paraṃ na hi || 87 || 87. There is no virtue greater than Yoga, no happiness greater than Yoga, nothing subtler than Yoga; and there is nothing beyond the path of Yoga. देव्युवाच । devy uvāca | The goddess said: योगः क उच्यते देव योगाभ्यासोऽपि कीदृशः | योगेन वा भवेत् किञ्चित् तत् सर्वं वद शङ्कर || ८८ || yogaḥ ka ucyate deva yogābhyāso ‘pi kīdṛśaḥ | yogena vā bhavet kiñcit tat sarvaṃ vada śaṅkara || 88 || 88. What is called Yoga, O god, and what is the practise of Yoga like? What-ever is achieved by Yoga, tell all, O Śaṅkara. ईश्वर उवाच । īśvara uvāca | Īśvara said: योऽपानप्राणयोर् योगः स्वरजोरेतसोस् तथा | सूर्याचन्द्रमसोर् योगो जीवात्मपरमात्मनोः || ८९ || yo ‘pānaprāṇayor yogaḥ svarajoretasos tathā | sūryācandramasor yogo jīvātmaparamātmanoḥ || 89 || 89. The union of apāna¹ and prāṇa,² likewise the union of one's own generative essence with this vital force,³ the union of the sun and the moon,⁴ and of the individual soul (jīva) with the supreme soul (paramātman).

1. Downward moving energy of the breath.
2. Upward moving energy of the breath.
3. Elemental power of the breath.
4. Kuṇḍalī (कुण्डली) “the coiled one” is the Sun, and Kuṇḍalinī (कुण्डलिनि) the “one not coiled” (i.e., straight), is the Sun’s ray, which, when “stirred up,” becomes detached and stretches out (up the suṣumnā) to the Moon (of the skull). एवं तु द्वन्दजालस्य संयोगो योग उच्यते |