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Step 5: Krikara Kumbhaka (Breathing Technique)

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Step 5: Breathing Technique –

Krikara Kumbhaka

Technique

This step must be done when you feel like sneezing

Whenever you feel like sneezing, rub your index finger and ring finger with the thumb.

Note: When you sneeze a certain
awareness happens in your system.
When you rub your index and ring
fingers on the thumb, then the
awareness settles down.

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Kumbhaka Paddhatih, Verse 80

तर्जन्यनामिके’ङ्गुष्ठ-मर्द्विते क्षुत-सम्भवे
क्षुत-संहरणःकुम्भःकृकरस्य जय-प्रदः||८०||

Tarjanyanāmike’ṅuṣṭha-marddite
kṣuta-sambhave
Kṣuta-saṃharaṇaḥ kumbhaḥ
kṛkarasya jaya-pradaḥ ||80||

Akashic Revelation

When there is a possibility of
sneezing, one should rub the index
and ring finger with the thumb. This
obliviously does not include the
process of Kumbhaka