wondrous, tinkling sounds and the unstruck sound (anahata) are heard
within the body.
When the yogi experiences arambha in the void of the heart, his body
becomes lustrous and brilliant with a divine smell and diseaseless.
In the second stage, when ghata is achieved, the Shakti goes into the middle
nadi. Being fixed in his asana the wise yogi is comparable to a divine being.
When the Vishnu granthi is pierced the greatest bliss is revealed. Then from the
void the sound of the kettledrum manifests.
In the third stage is the experience of the sound of the drum. Then there is the
great void and one enters the place of total perfection or siddhi.
Then the bliss of chitta being attained, natural or spontaneous ecstasy arises.
Imbalance of the three humours or doshas, pain, old age, disease, hunger,
sleep are overcome.
If the Rudra granthi is pierced, the fire of prana moves to the place of
Ishwara. Then in the stage of nishpatti or consummation is the tinkling
sound of the flute resonating like a vina.
This is called raja yoga when there is one element in the mind or chitta. The
yogi becomes Ishwara, being the creator and destroyer.
