M — bindu closure

Root / pelvic-floor resonance

M is the humming closure or bindu of AUM and is rendered here as descending to the pelvic floor. This root placement follows the requested map but is especially variant-sensitive; other schools locate bindu at the crown, palate, or nasal resonance.

Anāhata nāda — unstruck soundĀhata śabda — struck soundA — solar-plexus resonanceE — heart resonanceI — throat resonanceO — third-eye resonanceU — crown resonanceM — bindu closureM — bindu closure

Point 8 of 8 in Nāda Yoga — Sound-Body Resonance Map

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Yoga Sūtras 1.27–29 (primary_canonical)

Praṇava contemplation supplies the AUM frame; it does not prescribe this root placement.

Guy L. Beck, Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound (scholarly_modern)

Discusses bindu and variant sonic-body interpretations.

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