The Natha yogis shared tantric vision
of realization in its reverence for the manifest world as ‘Shakti’ or the
creative energy of Consciousness. At the same time, the Natha yogis were rather
unique in their emphasis on the forcefulness of the practice, and the degree of
will involved, even while they ecognized
the need for guidance and initiation into the practice by a teacher. But more
than anything else, they placed a value and emphasis on the body that went far
beyond any of the other sages in the yoga tradition. This Siddha cult is a very
old religious cult with its main emphasis on a psychochemical process of yoga,
known as the kaya-sadhana or the culture of the body with a view to making it
perfect and immutable and thereby attaining immortal spiritual life.
The emphasis upon “raising” the
sexual fluid, found especially and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, as well as in other
principal hatha yoga texts, do explanation, especially since the word “semen” more
extensively The process really needs the progressive control of Mind (Manas),
Vitality (Prana), and Power (Virya — as in ‘Virility’ — here most often
interpreted as “ semen”). To control the mind or ‘Manas’ it is to control all
three — Prana (Vayu) and Virya. By the same token, to control Prana is to
control both Manas and Virya.
The effect of control over Virya in the form
of sexual desire is the basis of main sidha yoga as the sexual fluid (virya) or elemental substance described by Ayurveda,
Sukra, which is refined from our food. All kriyas of the sidhas are ultimately
directed to raise the sexual fliud (virya)in upward direction with the progressive growth and enlightenment of KUNDALINI., leading to the last goal of YOGIS
The aim of the Natha Siddhas was certainly to achieve the condition known its jivanmukti, or liberation while still alive. This condition of freedom then led to the further goal of paramukti, in which the liberated one: is ‘immortalized’ in a perfected bodythat, in some respects, makes him an embodied Shiv, the Adinath
Ref
The Triadic Heart of Shiva, Paul
Muller-Ortega, p
The Serpent Power, Sir John
Woodroffe, p. 199
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