Yoga Nidra

[Periannan Chandrasekaran]

--- Swaminathan Madhuresan <smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> <<<
>  Friends:
>
>  Are you aware of any work that has been done on Yoga Nidra? Is the nidra of
>  sheshashayi Vishnu considered yoga nidra?
>
>  Thank you.
>
>  Harsha V. Dehejia
> >>>
>
>  Ancient Tamil literature talks of Seshasayi having yoganidra sleep.
>
>  Kind regards,
>  SM
>

The classical Tamil text cilappatikAram (pre-Kalidasa?) mentions
"aRi tuyil" ("conscious" sleep) or yoga nidra of viSNu at ATakamATam
(thought to be Thiruvanantapuram's  Padmanabhaswamy Temple)
"ATakamATattu aRituyil amarntOn2" (cilapp: 26:62)

> From the Cologne Tamil Text Thesaurus at:
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/ttt_search.html

Qcil26x62 \BT ATakamATattu aRituyil amarntOn2 \et
Qcil26x63 \BT cETam koNTu cilar nin2Ru Etta \et

Translation by R. Parthasarathy, "The Cilappatikaram of Ilanko Atikal",
 Columbia University Press, 1992:
page 229, lines 70-71:

"...appeared with offerings from ViSNu
who sleeps in a trance at ATakamATam and blessed him".

The Cologne Online Tamil Lexicon on the meaning of the phrase "aRituyil":

otl aRituyil aRituyil a state of sleep in which the person is conscious of the
outer world

Regards,
P. Chandrasekaran.



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