'' is listed among the text's asanas, thus conflating mudras with asanas. The
Joga Pradīpikā covers a broad range of topics on yoga, including the nature of the yogic
subtle body,
preliminary purifications, yogic seals (mudrās),
asanas,
prānāyāma (breath-control),
mantras,
meditation, liberation (
moksha), and
samādhi. One of the purifications in the text is the
mulashishnasodhana, "the cleansing of the anus and the penis", which calls for water to be drawn into the anus and squirted out through the penis, which
James Mallinson and
Mark Singleton gloss as "a feat which is, of course, anatomically impossible." Prānāyāma is stated to result in liberation, on its own, though some of its breath-control techniques also use mantras. The
Joga Pradīpikā however asks the yogi to stay on as a physical body to serve the Lord, rather than choosing liberation. The
Joga Pradīpikā conflates the
mudrās with asanas by describing the
mahāmudrā as one of its 84 asanas. Like other late texts, it describes a relatively large number of mudrās, 24 in all. On meditation, the text reworks the
Bhagavata Puranas meditation of the goddess
Sītā and the god
Rāma. On samādhi, the yogi reaches it by the "bee cave" in the
sahasrara chakra, the "thousand-petalled lotus", with an unending "unstruck sound". == Asanas ==