In English
Take one prescription, the worship of the Snake. Those afflicted with barrenness or serious illness or skin diseases of virulent types vow to proceed on pilgrimage to shrines of (conceived in the form of a Snake). People laugh at this practice. "Indians offer adoration to snakes, because, in their opinion, they have poison in their fangs!" The Truth is quite otherwise. The inner meaning of snake worship is quite different. The spinal column of man ending with the 'thousand-petallied lotus' in the brain is very much like a serpent poised on its tail with hood widely spread. In the science of , the vital energy of man lying dormant like a coiled snake, at the bottom of this column in the lowest (the Basal Plexus) is awakened and aroused, so that it courses up through six more wheels (centres of superior consciousness) until it reaches the (thousand-petalled Lotus Energy Centre) at the very top of the skull. The passage for the is through the nerve in the centre of the spinal column. The worship of the Snake, ridiculed as superstition, is the symbolic counterpart of this great Yogic which confers vigour and vitality.