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In spite of my having shown above that the wonderful and mysterious Kundalini of the Yogic literature is the Vagus nerve of modern science, we are faced with a difficulty. We know that there are two Vagi, the right and the left, while the Yogic literature refers to one only. Is it possible that the writers of Yogic science were ignorant of the second ? Want of knowledge of its existence is hardly conceivable in the face of very accurate descriptions of the sensory nerves. Perhaps they knew that one of the Vagi was not as powerful as the other, and could not form connections or pierce through all the important plexuses mentioned by them. Our present knowledge of anatomy tells us that of the two Vagi the left Vagus is not so plentifully supplied with efferent fibres as the right and plays only a very minor part in the formation of the Solar plexus and of plexuses situated below it; while the right Vagus nerve, through its hypogastric branch, gains a direct connection with the solar plexus and the plexuses situated below it. The stimulation of the right Vagus nerve at its central connection, can control the activities of all the six plexuses of the sympathetic system, containing as it does the most important part of the para-sympathetic portion of the autonomic nervous system.
The mentioned of Kundalini in the Yogic literature in the singular number makes us believe that it must be the right Vagus nerve only and not the left. Even though it is accepted that Kundalini is the right Vagus nerve, there remains unsolved the mystery of controlling it. The modern physiology does not refer to the voluntary control of the autonomic nervous system. Normally the current of the Vagus is constantly going on and regularly controlling all the vital organs of the body automatically and unconsciously. When the Kundalini is doing this its normal work, it is said in Yogic literature, to be lying dormant. To us, the only visible manifestation of the interference with the normal function of the Vagus is either by means of poisons generated in certain diseases or by certain medicinal agents. This interference may be in the form of a stimulation or a depression, as seen in the working the vital organs supplied by the Vagus. Its stimulation causes inhibition of the heart’s action; its depression puts the controlling action out of gear. The heart then, being only under the acceleratory influence of the sympathetic fibres, beats faster. From this perceptible change, we can judge whether the Vagus is interfered with or not.
Such is, then, the state of our present knowledge, and it seems to us impossible to establish a voluntary control over the Vagus nerve. However to those who have gone through the different processes for established possibility. A convincing proof of it was given by Deshbandu by his performances, viz., the stopping of the movement of the heart and the arterial pulse of a particular part of the body, a reference to which has already been made in the opening paragraph of this book. These phenomena are mainly due to the stimulation of the Vagus – the “awakened Kundalini.”