The Serpent Power : Being the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana and Paduka-Pancaka : Two Works on Laya-Yoga, Translated from the Sanskrit, with Introduction and Commentary

Contents: Preface. Introduction: 1. Introductory. 2. Bodiless consciousness. 3. Embodied consciousness (Jivatma). 4. Mantra. 5. The centres or lotuses. 6. Practice (Yoga : laya-krama). 7. Theoretical bases of this Yoga. Translation and commentary: 1. Description of the six centres (Sat-Cakra-Nirupana). 2. The five-fold footstool (Paduka-Pancaka). Appendix: Yogasana illustrations.

"This work is a description and explanation in fuller detail of the Serpent Power (Kundali-sakti), and the Yoga effected through it, a subject occupying a pre-eminent place in the Tantra-Sastra. It consists of a translation of two Sanskrit works published some years ago in the second volume of my series of Tantrik texts, but hither to untranslated. The first, entitled "Satcakra-nirupana" ("Description of and investigation into the six bodily centres"), has as its author the celebrated Tantrik Purnananda-Svami, a short note on whose life is given later. It forms the sixth chapter of his extensive and unpublished work on Tantrik ritual entitled "Sri-tattvacintamani." (jacket)