Nirahara Samyama℠ ~ Living Without Food
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Ved-ic tradition equips us with different kinds of techniques to realize possibilities within us. This includes meditation and yoga techniques, initiations and more. One of such many techniques is called ‘Samyama.’ Samyama means exploring and discovering your various possibilities and powers being centered on a certain technique or spiritual process. Nirahara Samyama℠ means exploring the body’s possibility without having any external input like food or water. The purpose of the Samyama is to awaken the natural intelligence of making food out of natural resources like Sun rays, air and the prana (or life energy) which is directly available from space.
“If fish can swim, we can swim; if bird can fly, we can fly; and if plants can make food directly from the air and Sun rays, our body can also do that. Every extraordinary capability and possibility is inside our bio-memory.”
Every human being associates their fears, greed, attention need and idea of love to food. All patterns associated with love and
attention need are connected with
food. Therefore, food becomes a very
emotional component of life. Now
when one is liberated from food, the
associated emotional patterns are
also eliminated.
Nirahara Samyama℠ includes three techniques:
(1) Ajapa Japa or continuous
meditative chanting,
(2) Mahābhāva or feeling connection,
and
(3) Sahaja Samadhi or Unclutching.
Ajapa Japa is the process of continuous
chanting of the Guru mantra (the
sacred chants of the Guru). Japa is
the sound that comes the navel
through the throat and the tongue. It
is a continuous linear movement of
air that is getting converted to sound.
In Ajapa Japa, the Guru Mantra ‘Aum
Hreem Nithyanandāya Namaḥ’
mantra is repeated constantly with the
visualisation of the mantra moving in
circular direction around the throat.
oneself. The thoughts are neither
encouraged nor suppressed; they are
witnessed continuously.
Nirahara Samyama℠ includes all the
above mentioned three techniques.
In addition, the most important
part is the initiation by the Guru or
the Master, which awakens the bio-
memory to its innate state. This
innate state is not affected by either
the presence or absence of food.
The initiation when combined with
the three techniques help to tap
the innate energy within us in the
absence of physical food.
Ajapa Japa is one of the straightforward
ways to maintain heightened levels
of awareness, which also awakens the
Kundalini Shakti.
Next, feeling connection is achieved by meditating on the Ananda Gandha Chakra, the subtle energy center that is located between the heart energy center (Anahata Chakra) and navel energy center (Manipuraka Chakra). Ananda Gandha is the direct doorway to the Guru or Master. Finally, unclutching is the process of being an observer of all thoughts that arise in
