Awakening Levitation
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Levitation is the most visible indication of the participant's body is often a tangible, that the grip of karmas is reducing; side effect of the spiritual awakening. the willingness to let go of pain, fear and guilt has started to happen.
For the spiritual seeker, levitation can Levitation is a result of balancing of the be experienced at a beginner’s level with Samana. Samana is a process that is the grace and initiation of Paramahamsa responsible for moving the air all over the Nithyananda. When the Kundalini energy body from the tips of ten fingers and toes is activated, innumerable practical benefits to the Sahasrara (Crown) Chakra. The prana will manifest in various dimensions of life; or life-force energy is stored in tiny air sacs health, wealth, relationships, education, beneath each hair of the skin. The air sacs career and more are experienced. Levitation get the life energy from the Cosmos. If these air sacs are filled and balanced throughout the body, levitation can be experienced.
Burning all pain patterns by doing
Samskara Dahana Kriya is important
before this initiation. Psychological
levitation and physiological levitation
are two powers related to the Sahasrara
chakra. When the air energy is equal
to the body weight of the participant,
the lifting of the body happens.
“When you breathe with thinking;
means with the breathing, thinking
is also happening. That is called
prana. In the night deep sleep, your
breathing will happen but thinking
is not happening. That is called
Samana. Now even when you are
awake, I am going to infuse Samana
in you.”
Paramahamsa Nithyananda's Experience of Levitation with Yogananda Puri
Yogananda Puri was one of Paramahamsa Nithyananda's biggest spiritual influences as a child. He was trained in the Natha sampradaya in Burma for many years until he migrated back to Thiruvannamalai where he was born and brought up. Yogananda Puri gave Paramahamsa Nithyananda initiation after initiation into new powers. He used to make the young incarnation do Surya Namaskar from sunrise to sunset without a break. Because of this, Paramahamsa Nithyananda laughingly describes his relationship with Yogananda Puri as a love-hate relationship.
“For few days, I would refuse to
see him. Then suddenly, I would
feel love for him and just go and
sit on his lap” he said.
No matter what, Paramahamsa
Nithyananda always recognizes
how much Yogananda Puri
gave him. That is why he was
given the title by Paramahamsa
Nithyananda, “The Yogi that made
me a Yogi”
Paramahamsa Nithyananda once
told Yogananda Puri, as a thirteen
year old, “When you attain
samadhi, I’ll build a big temple for
you!”
“No, no, no” he refused in
response. “I will see to it you aren’t
there when I leave the body. I
don’t want anything from you. If
anything, just promise me you will
go on making yogis like I made
you”
Paramahamsa Nithyananda promised. Today, he declared that he was keeping his word through his gurukal students. As the first to receive and express these shaktis, they are the fulfillment of his promise to Yogananda Puri.
He has said, "They are the embodiment of Yogananada Puri"
This technique took the most time to perfect in Paramahamsa Nithyananda's body when he was a child. He didn't stand for any less than the authentic levitation where the body lifts at least 2 feet off the ground, remains there for sometime and then gracefully drifts down. This was the standard to which he had to keep himself so that he could initiate people fifteen years later, in a hall filled with devotees. And if not himself, he had Yogananda Puri to always keep that standard up for him.
One time, Yogananda Puri had drawn a mandala on the ground and told Paramahamsa Nithyananda to sit immediately. He began sounding out the Shodasi syllables to awaken the kundalini. Immediately, like disciples often do, eight year old Paramahamsa Nithyananda began moving around fluidly, jumping in the air messily, rotating his torso in circles and so forth.
Suddenly, Yogananda Puri just snapped and told him to stop. Without wavering his voice, he told the future guru, "Ay, you can't move your body like this. In the future, millions will be jumping around you. You have to stay strong,"
Without a second thought, Paramahamsa Nithyananda sat completely
straight, as if something was pulling his spine up. Just as he sits during Shivoham processes and every disciple tumbles and turns around him in the Shivabodhe of Oneness.
Six Years to Levitate
Paramahamsa Nithyananda recounts what his experience and training with levitation was like. He shares how it took him six years of training with his yoga guru to levitate, and the subtle processes he went through for perfecting the science of levitation.
For Yogananda Puri it took six years for him to make me levitate.
He would make me inhale and
hold. Inhale and holding is called
Kumbhaka. Then he would remove
the beds. I had to remain in that
space for sixty seconds, and the
floor beneath was hard cement
floor. Then my landing would be
slow because I know, if not, my
back would break. Your balanced
samana will make you land on the
ground slowly.
He was sitting on a wooden plank.
I was sitting on some four, five
pillows because he was trying to
make me levitate. That's the way
he would do it. He would put some
four, five pillows and a bed. I had
to sit on that and continuously do
the pranayam. Once I had intensely
done the pranayam and stabilized,
he would remove the pillows one by
one. I had to remain in the air. That
is the way he taught levitation.
If I was going down when he removed the pillow, he would stop and ask me to do more pranayama and kumbhaka. Then after he removed all the pillows, if I was stable in the air, he would get his pet dog to sit under me. That fellow will be sitting under me so I would have to be holding on to that air. I cannot release. I will have to completely lock the kumbhaka because if I released I would fall on the ground and I will fall on that fellow and that fellow would bite me.
So I will have to be just holding on or even if I land, I have to land in a very slow way. Very slowly in a very subtle way I had to release the air not even through the nose. I had to release the air through the kurma nadi. This means such sensitive prana; through the middle fingers I had to release the air, only then I could land very smoothly. If you release the air through the nostril itself you will just fall because nostril is too big a hole. So that has to be locked. The releasing has to happen through the kurma nadi. I had to balance and land on the dog so that he wouldn't bite me.
