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

नानानादाः प्रवर्तन्ते मार्दवं स्यात् कलेवरे ॥ १६६ ॥ nānānādāḥ pravartante mārdavaṃ syāt kalevare || 166 || 166. Various sounds emerge,¹ and (from this primary energy generated by the breath which flows like) water, rapturous intoxication occurs in the body.

1. See footnote 3, verse 117. जित्वा पृथ्व्यादिकं जाड्यं खेचरः प्रसरेत् पुमान् । सर्वज्ञोऽसौ भवेत् कामरूपः पवनवेगवान् ॥ १६७ ॥ jitvā pṛthvyādikaṃ jāḍyaṃ khecaraḥ prasaret pumān | sarvajño 'sau bhavet kāmarūpaḥ pavanavegavān || 167 ||
2. Having conquered the elements¹ such as Earth, dullness of mind (vanishes)², a person becomes sky-roaming. This one becomes all-knowing, capable of assuming any form he desires, endowed with the impetus³ of the breath.⁴⁻⁵
3. The five great elements (pañca-mahā-bhūta) of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether.
4. By this illumination in samādhi.
5. Principal motive force.
6. Vāyu “elemental power of the breath.”
7. “17. The mind (cetas) which is the subject of thoughts contemplates on the nature of elementary matter, and thus becomes of itself the quintessence of the five elements. 18. The quintessential mind next becomes like a spark of fire and remains like a dim star, a nebula in the emptiness of the yet unborn universe. 19. The mind takes the form of a spark of fire by thinking on its essence, which gradually develops itself like a seed in the form of the cosmic egg by its internal force. 20. The same fiery spark figuratively called the cosmic egg (brahmāṇḍa) became like a snowball in water and conceived the great Brahmā within its hollow womb.” - Chapter 64 (Uncaused Brahma Creates Rules of Causation for Forms), Yoga Vāsiṣṭham of Vālmīki. English translation by Vihari Lala Mitra (1891). क्रीडति त्रिषु लोकेषु जायन्ते सिद्धयोऽखिलाः । कर्पूरे लीयमाने किं काठिन्यं तत्र विद्यते ॥ १६८ ॥ krīḍati triṣu lokeṣu jāyante siddhayo 'khilāḥ | karpūre līyamāne kiṃ kāṭhinyaṃ tatra vidyate || 168 ||
8. He plays in the three worlds¹, all the entire siddhis (powers) are born. What hardness² remains found there when dissolving camphor³⁻⁴?
9. Physical, astral, and causal.
10. Hard-heartedness (of the embodied ego).
11. In the heat of the fire of samādhi.
12. Camphor is a metaphor employed to describe the embodied ego (which melts away in the fire of yoga). अहङ्कारलये तत्र देहे कठिनता कुतः ।