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

Śaṅkara (Śiva). These three places are considered to bestow liberation. The gorakṣamudgara (Mudgar Club of Gorakṣa). बन्धो जालन्धराख्यो ऽयं अमृतो व्ययकारकः । अधस्तात् कुञ्चनेनाशु कण्ठसंकोचनेन च ॥ १२३ ॥ bandho jālandharākhyo ‘yaṃ amṛto vyayakārakaḥ | adhastāt kuñcanenāśu kaṇṭhasaṃkocanena ca || 123 || 123. This is called the ‘water-holding’ (Jālandhara) ‘damming up’ (Bandha), the creator of immortality. By quickly contracting the throat, this constriction (prevents Prāṇa flowing back down) below. मध्यमाभ्रमणेन स्यात् प्राणो ब्रह्मणाडिगः ॥ १२४ ॥ madhyamābhramaṇena syāt prāṇo brahmanāḍigaḥ || 124 || 124. By the intermediate¹ rotation of the (breaths elemental power up and down the) middle (channel) (madhyamā), the Prāṇa² moves into (and up) the Brahmanāḍī (channel of Brahma).

1. By the intermediate action of both breaths (inhalation and exhalation).
2. Upward moving elemental energy of the breath. वज्रासनस्थितो योगि चालयित्वा तु कुण्डलीम् । कुर्याद् अनन्तरं भस्त्रां कुण्डलीम् आशु बोधयेत् ॥ १२५ ॥ vajrāsanasthito yogī cālayitvā tu kuṇḍalīm | kuryād anantaraṃ bhastrāṃ kuṇḍalīm āśu bodhayet || 125 ||
3. A yogi seated in Vajrāsana, having stirred up the Kuṇḍalinī, should then immediately perform Bhastrikā (the bellows-blower)¹ to quickly arouse the Kuṇḍalinī.
4. For the effects of Bhastrikā, see footnote 2 of verse 185 (goṭikā bandha). भिद्यन्ते ग्रन्थयो वंशे तप्तलोहशलाकया । तथैव पृष्ठवंशे स्याद् ग्रन्थिभेदस् तु वायुना ॥ १२६ ॥ bhidyante granthayo vaṃśe taptalohaśalākayā | tathaiva pṛṣṭhavaṃśe syād granthibhedas tu vāyunā || 126 ||