Door 41Verse 64breath · breath cessation (in Singh's reading)Historical / observe onlyDraft · awaiting guardian review
Historical / observe onlyThis dhāraṇā is kept as a classical description to read and understand. It is not practised here, and no practice cues are given. Observe-only. Inducing a stop of the breath can bring dizziness or fainting and is not suitable for everyone, for example during pregnancy or with heart, blood-pressure or breathing conditions. For practice, use the natural-pause forms of Doors 001 to 003.
Observe only: read and understand this classical description. It is not practised in class. For practice, use Doors 001 to 003.
From the meeting (saṃghaṭṭa) of the two breaths, within or outside, at its culmination the yogī becomes a vessel for the dawning of the knowledge of sameness (samatva).
School paraphrase drawing on Jaideva Singh (1979), Christopher Wallis and Bettina Bäumer (as printed in Wallis's concordance); not a quotation.
Commentary
Singh: by the fusion of prāṇa and apāna, at the centre or at the dvādaśānta, there finally arises a complete cessation of both; meditating on that void, in which neither breath is felt, the experience of equality arises. Wallis renders saṃghaṭṭa as 'dynamic tension' and rates the technique advanced.
Classical description
Classical method: the in-breath and out-breath are brought to meet, inside or outside, until in Singh's reading both cease; resting in that void, the knowledge of sameness arises.
Historical / observe only. Read and understood, not practised. No practice cues are given for this door.
Pain is information. Pause, regress, or exit. Never push through sharp pain.
General practice caution only; not medical advice. Breath cessation is not taught by this school. Never hold or stop the breath for this door. If anything feels distressing (dizziness, agitation, strong emotion), stop, open the eyes and rest attention on the feet and the floor.
Honesty
Door 041 follows Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra dharana 41 (verse 64) in Jaideva Singh's numbering. The door-to-dharana index is a School of 112 Doorways teaching device. Singh's sequence is one edition's count, not an ancient one-to-one canon. The seat, counts, reaction and beat scripts are school additions.
Door index = Jaideva Singh dharana number: Door 041 is dharana 41, verse 64. Other editions number differently (see dharana.numbering_variants).
The seat, breath counts, reaction metaphor, attention-map drawing and beat scripts are school devices, not part of the verse.
The English is a school paraphrase, not a quotation from any translator.
No medical claims. Reaction names are metaphors, not biochemistry.
New door researched on 2026-10-06 on branch research/vbt-houses-2-7; awaiting guardian review.
historical/observe_only: In Singh's reading the practice culminates in the complete cessation of in-breath and out-breath; this school does not induce breath cessation. Taught as text to understand, not as a class drill.
School of 112 Doorways: seat, breath counts, reaction metaphor, attention map drawing and beat scripts School devices, following the House 1 conventions (doors/HOUSE-1-REGISTRY.md, guardians/CHECKLIST.md). research/PROMPT_TEMPLATE.md is not present in the repository at 32e76c4.
Pain is information, never a badge. Never force the breath. Practice is not medical treatment. The door-to-dhāraṇā index is a School of 112 Doorways teaching device (school_device), not an ancient one-to-one canon.