shri bhairava uvaca
urdhve prano hyadho jivo
visargatma paroccaret /
utpattidvitayasthane,
bharanadbharita sthitih // 24 //
Urdhve is from upwards, movement from upwards. That is, from the heart to dvadashanta40 is pranah. Pranah means the outgoing breath. Adhah, from dvadashanta to hridaya, the heart, is jivah. Jivah means the in-going breath.
The outgoing breath is represented by “sa”, and the ingoing breath is represented by “ha”. So “sa”, “ha”.
Visargatma para uccaret utpatti dvitaya sthane. Utpatti dvitya sthane, it is two starting points: from heart there is one starting point, and from bahya dvadashanta there is another starting point. That is utpatti dvitaya, two starting points.
There, visargatma para uccaret, this supreme energy which is full of visarga, appears. And, by this process, bharanat bharita sthitih, bharita sthiti, bhairavasya sthitih syat, one becomes one with Bhairava, bharanat, because of its fullness.
This upaya, this means, is connected with anavopaya. It can't be shaktopaya or shambhavopaya. It is anavopaya, because it is functioning in the objective field of consciousness. Urdhve, you have to take the breath [out] from the heart to dvadashanta, and take it in from dvadashanta to the heart again, and recite prana and jiva. “Recite prana” means recite “sa”, the letter “sa”, and “recite jiva” [means recite] the letter “ha”.
And, in these utpatti dvitaya, in these two starting points, you have to recite visarga (“h”) and “m”-kara. The visarga of “sa” will be recited in the outward dvadadhanta, and “m”-kara of “ha” will be recited in the heart. When you take your breath inside it will end in “m”; when you take it out, it will end in visarga (“h”), “sah”. And, in these two starting points, if you concentrate, you will become one with Bhairava because of its fullness.
This is anavopaya.
VB CD 01 Track 11 (03:09)
40. A technical term in Kashmir Shaivism, literally meaning “twelve finger spaces.” In this case, it refers to bahya dvadashanta, a particular space outside (bahya) the body, twelve finger spaces from the eyebrows. [Editor's note]
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