YOGASANA
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Pranayama
Ujjayi Pranayama
Yoga Kundalyupanishad 19
Ujjayi
Bandha
Mula Bandha
Yoga Sikh Upanishad
Japa
Om Nithyananda Paramashivoham
Visualize Swamiji,
The Supreme Pontiff
of Hinduism
Gaze
Mudra
Shambhavi Mudra
Mandala Brahmana-
Upanishad Verse 3.5
- With toes flat, cross feet and place perineum on back of heels.
- Gaze to nose.
Asana
YOGASANA
Śāstra Pramāṇa
Trishikhi
Brahmanopanishad 38
गुदं नियम्य गुल्फाभ्यां
व्युत्क्रमेण समाहितः |
gudaṃ niyamya
gulphābhyāṃ vyutkrameṇa
samāhitaḥ |
yogāsanaṃ bhavedetaditi
Yogavido viduḥ ॥ 38 ॥
AKASHIC REVELATION
After having pressed the
anus with his ankles
folded crosswise and got
composure in the posture
assumed, what is attained
by one is Yogasana.
Pranayama
UJJAYI PRANAYAMA
Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र
प्रमाण
Yoga Kundalyupanishad 19 - 21
प्राणरोधमथेदानीं प्रवक्ष्यामि
समासतः ।
प्राणश्च देहगो वायुरार्यामः कुम्भकः
स्मृतः ॥ १९ ॥
स एव द्विविधः प्रोक्तः सहितः
केवलस्तथा ।
यावत् केवलसिद्धिः स्यात् तावत्
सहितमभ्यसेत् ॥ २० ॥
सूर्योज्जायी शीतली च भस्त्री
चैव चतुर्थिका ।
भेदैरेव समं कुम्भो यः स्यात्
सहितकुम्भकः ॥ २१ ॥
prāṇarodhamathedānīṃ pravakṣyāmi
samāsataḥ |
prāṇaśca dehago vāyurāyāmaḥ
Kumbhakaḥ smṛtaḥ ॥ 19 ॥
sa eva dvividhaḥ proktaḥ sahitaḥ
kevalastathā |
yāvat kevalasiddhiḥ syāt tāvat
sahitamabhyaset ॥ 20 ॥
sūryojjāyī śītalī ca bhastrī caiva
caturthikā |
bhedaireva samaṃ kumbho yaḥ syāt
sahita Kumbhakaḥ ॥ 21 ॥
AKASHIC REVELATION
Then I shall presently relate briefly
about the control of the vital air.
Prana is air coursing through the
body and Ayama is said to be
Kumbhaka (holding under control).
The same is said to be of two
kinds: the combined (Pranayama)
and that (which is practiced) alone
by itself. One should practice the
combined Pranayama till he attains
success in the (practice of
Kumbhaka) alone by itself. The
Kumbhaka which is practiced
along with Surya, Ujjayi, Siitali and
Bhastrl as the fourth, that is the
combined Kumbhaka.
Mudra
SHAMBHAVI MUDRA
Śāstra Pramāṇa
Mandala
Brahmanopanishad 3.5
लक्ष्येऽन्तर्बाह्यायां
दृष्टौ निमेषोन्मेषवर्जितायां च
इयं
शांभवी मुद्रा भवति ।
सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या महाविद्या
भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन संसारनिवृत्तिः
। तत्पूजनं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥
lakṣye'ntarbāhyāyāṃ dṛṣṭau
nimeṣonmeṣavarjitāyāṃ ca
iyam
śāmbhavī mudrā bhavati |
sarvatantreṣu gopyā
mahāvidyā bhavati |
tajjñānena saṃsāranivṛttiḥ |
tatpūjanaṃ mokṣaphalam ॥
5 ॥
AKASHIC REVELATION
Fixing the gaze inwards
into the inner space and
with the eyes opening out,
but devoid of the acts of
opening and closing of the
eyelids, this Shambhavi–
mudra is assumed. This
mahā-vidya (the great
ultimate source knowledge)
is, of all the Tantras, what
is kept a profound secret.
With the experiential
knowledge of this, is
attained freedom and
completion from the state
of worldly existence.By its
worship, is bestowed the
fruit of liberation.
Bandha
MULA BANDHA
Śāstra Pramāṇa
Yoga Sikhopanishad 104-105
गुदं पाष्ण्र्या तु संपीड्य
वायुमाकुञ्चयेद् बलात् । वारं वारं यथा
चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणः ॥ १०४ ॥
प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू
मूलबन्धेन चैकताम् । गत्वा योगस्य
संसिद्धिं यच्छतो नात्र संशयः
॥ १०५ ॥
gudaṃ pārṣṇyā tu saṃpīḍya
vāyumākuñcayed balāt | vāraṃ
vāraṃ yathā cordhvaṃ
samāyāti samīraṇaḥ ॥ 104 ॥
prāṇāpānau nāndabindū
mūlabandhena caikatām|
gatvā Yogasya saṃsiddhiṃ
yacchato nātra saṃśayaḥ ॥
105 ॥
AKASHIC REVELATION
Pressing the anus with the
heel, (the practitioner) should
forcibly draw up the vital air
in such a way that the air
would move upwards stage
by stage. The Prana and
Apana (vital airs), as also the
Nada (Intellect) and the Bindu
(mind), becoming one by
means of the Mula-bandha,
bestow the successful
accomplishment of Yoga.
Herein there is no doubt.
237.