Tarpaka Kapha

Question 1

What are the primary sites of tarpaka kapha?

Answer 1

Brain (white matter)
Myelin Sheath
Cerebrospinal fluid

Question 2

What are the primary functions of tarpaka kapha?

Answer 2

Subconscious thinking and emotions

Memory

Question 3

What does the word tarpana mean?

Answer 3

To nourish
To retain
To record
Contentment

Question 4

What are the primary qualities of tarpaka kapha?

Answer 4

Thick
Slimy
Sticky
Soft

Question 5

Tarpaka kapha nourishes which cells?

Answer 5

Brain cells

Question 6

The meninges and cerebrospinal fluid contain which quality of tarpaka kapha?

Answer 6

Liquid

Question 7

What tastes are present in the cerebrospinal fluid? Why?

What cells and dhātu do these tastes nourish?

Answer 7

Sweet because of glucose
Salty because of minerals

Sweet and salty nourish the nerve cells
Sweet and salty brings energy to rasa dhatu creating a feeling of happiness

Question 8

What is one of the main functions of tarpaka kapha in the myelin sheath?

This movement is governed by which vāyu?

Answer 8

To protect the impulse that goes from one neuron to another neuron, which is governed by prāna vāyu

Question 9

Where is tarpaka kapha found in the nerve tissue?

Answer 9

White matter of brain
Myelin sheath
The entire nerve tissue
The sensitive film on the neuron where experience is recorded

Question 10

Tarpaka kapha provides lubrication for what?

Answer 10

Sinuses
Nasal cavities
Spinal cord providing the medium for the reflex arc to travel through

Question 11

What is the process of perception/attention filterong through awareness and becoming recorded in tarpaka kapha? What type of vāyu and pitta is involved in this process,and what function does each subtype provide?

Answer 11

Perception is moved by prāna vāyu

Sādhaka pitta deals with the digestion of the perception resulting in comprehension

Prāna is also the writer that records every experience on the film of tarpaka kapha

Tarpaka kapha is a big recording file

Question 12

Tarpaka kapha is associated with which of the ten bodies?

What is one of the functions of this body?

Answer 12

Astral body

Within the matrix of the astral body past life experiences are recorded

Question 13

Where do we carry the memory of our parent’s illnesses?

How does this relate to tarpaka kapha?

Answer 13

DNA molecules

Tarpaka is the DNA molecules

Question 14

How is memory used as a protective mechanism?

Answer 14

When a child burns their hand, the memory is recorded (by prāna on tarpaka). Next time the child sees fire they will know not to play with it.

Question 15

Psychological memories are associated with chakra? List the qualities and organs associated here.

Answer 15

Second chakra

Psychological memories are associated with:
Sexual energy
Male and female
Sex organs
Relationships
Emotions

Question 16

Biological memories are associated with what?

Answer 16

Organs and tissues

Question 17

What three kinds of memory are there?

Answer 17

Biological memory
Psychological memory
Factual memory

Question 18

What is thought in relation to tarpaka kapha?

Can we use thought to audit what is and isn’t recorded? How?

Answer 18

Thought is a discharge of tarpaka kapha

It is a biochemical and neuro-electrical vehicle that is passing through the matrix of tarpaka kapha

Yes, awareness of thought creates the ability to choose something else, which creates an experience that becomes recorded in tarpaka kapha

Question 19

Tarpaka kapha works at what levels of the mind?

Can one level become the other and vice versa?

Answer 19

Subconscious and conscious levels

Yes, what is in the conscious mind can become subconscious and vice versa

Question 20

What practices can one do to bring memories to the surface? How does this work?

Answer 20

Meditation and counseling dig into tarpaka kapha, then prāna brings the memories to the surface

Question 21

What is the result of tarpaka kapha of an inferior quality?

Answer 21

Reduced sensitivity

Interference with clarity of observation (clouded by past memory)

Question 22

What is the difference between neurological time and psychological time?

Answer 22

Neurological time is stimulus and response

Psychosocial time is thought

Question 23

How can the quality of tarpaka kapha be changed today?

Answer 23

By observing without distance, which means to observe the essence, which is the pure space of existence unclouded by the past

Question 24

What are disorders of tarpaka kapha?

What traumas might affect tarpaka kapha? What affect would Tod possibly have on tarpaka kapha?

Answer 24

Stroke paralysis
Parkinson’s
Brain tumors

Concussion
Compression
Contusion
A blow to the head may traumatize tarpaka kapha causing the person to loose memory

Question 25

What is the governing element of tarpaka kapha?

Answer 25

Ether