Dhyāna Samārambhaṇam
ध्यान समारम्भणम्
Beginning to Meditate
Let your awareness be unswerving, bound to the mūlādhāra. Through the spinal shaft within, gaze into the inner void. See and yet see not. Hear and yet hear not. Thus sit in meditation. That is the sure means to bar death’s way. When prāṇāyāma is practiced in proper time-measure, breath retention will stand harmonized with prāṇa. In him who trains breath that is prāṇa, time and life remain inseparable.§
Tirumantiram 591-592§