I
told you of two kinds of serpent: the good one and the bad one. The former is
what gives the nectar. The latter gives only poison. It is this latter one that
is destroyed by the peacock of Lord SuBrahmanya
and the Garuda-vehicle of Lord Vishnu. When the former (the good one, the nectar-showering
serpent) is the form of SuBrahmanya, we say He is nAga-rAja, the King of snakes.
It is the same one that
Lord Vishnu is having as his bed-rest. It is the same one that Lord Nataraja is
having around his raised foot. And it is the same one who came as Patanjali and
taught the yoga-shAstra,
where, even if the kuNDalinI yoga is not particularly
mentioned, the kuNDalinI that arises out of that yoga
is of the serpent form.
(Continued...)
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