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ASANA

UTTANA MANDUKASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

GHERANDA SAMHITA 2.34

मण्डुकासनमध्यस्थं कूर्पराभ्यां धृतं शिरः।

एतद् भेकवदुत्थानमेतदुत्थानमण्डुकम् ॥ ३४ ॥

MAṇḌUKĀSANAMADHYASTHAM KŪRPARĀBHYĀM DHṚTAM ŚIRAH

ETAD BHEKAVADUTTHĀNAMETADUTTHĀNAMAṇḌUKAM

UKAM ॥ 34 ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

Uttana Manduka: Assume the frog-posture (as in verse 34).

Taking the feet at the back, the toes touching each other, bring the knees forward.

This is known as the Mandukasana.

Hold the head by the elbows, and stand up like a frog.

This is called the Uttana Mandukasana

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

Āpta Pramana - आप्त प्रमाण

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF

RAGHUVIRA 104

नोभ्यं-आरे समकॄत्स्य

कुञ्चालयः पार्श्वयोः ।

कॄपेत गच्छता तिसॄहता द्वास-

धारणा न बलाद-यदा ।

अनिःसॄ सहजः कुम्भः

प्रोक्तः श-क्कि-तिवाससा ॥

NOBHYĀM-ĀRaM SAMAKṚTSYA

KUñcĀLAYĀḥ PĀRŚVAYOḥ

KṚPET GACCHATĀ TIṢṚHATĀ ŚVASA-

DHĀRAṇĀM NA BALĀD-YADĀ ।

ANIṢAM SAHAJAH KUMBHAḥ

PROKTAḥ ŚRI-KṚTTIVĀSĀSĀ ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

Inhaling Prana through the nose and carrying it along the Kundali,

one should hold it comfortably off and on.

This is Sahaja-Kumbhaka narrated by Sri-Krittivasa (Shiva).

MUDRA

MANDUKI MUDRA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

GHERANDA SAMHITA 3.62 - 63

अथ माण्डुकीमुद्राकथनम् ।

मुखं संमुद्रितं कृत्वा जिह्वामूलं प्रचालयेत् ।

शनैःशनैः स्रावयेत् तां माण्डुक्याः मुद्रिकाः विदुः ॥ ६२॥

वलितं पलितं वैव जायते नित्ययौवनम् ।

न केश जायते पाको यः

कुर्याद्-नित्यमाण्डुकीम् ॥६३॥

ATHA MĀṇḌUKĪMUDRĀKATHANAM ।

MUKHAṀ SAMMUDRITAṀ KṚTVĀ JIHVĀMŪLAṀ PRACĀLAYET ।

ŚANAIḥŚANAIḥ SRĀVAYET TĀṀ MĀṇḌUKYĀḥ MUDRIKĀṀ VIDUḥ ॥62॥

VALITAṀ PALITAṀ VAIVA JĀYATE NITYAYAUVANAM ।

NA KEŚA JĀYATE PĀKO YAḥ

KURYĀNNITYAMĀṇḌUKĪM ॥63॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

Closing the mouth, move the tip of the tongue towards the palate and slowly taste the nectar of immortality

(that is flowing from the 1000 petalled lotus from the crown center).

This is the Māṇḍūkī Mudrā. (62)

The fruit of the MāṇḍūkīMudrā.

The body is never in disease or becomes old, and it lives in the state of perpetual eternal youth (Nithya Yauvana);

The one who practices it, his hair never ages into grey.

BANDHA

UDDIYANA BANDHA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

106 - 109

कुम्भकान्ते रेचकादौ कर्तव्यस्तुड्डियानकः ।

बन्धो येन सुषुम्नायां प्राणः स्थाद्-उड्डियान यतः- ॥ १०६ ॥

तस्मादुद्धियानकं नित्यं योगिभिः

समुद्दियानं तु सहजं गुरुणा कथितं

सदा ॥ १०७ ॥

अभ्यसेत तद-तन्द्रास्तु वृद्धोऽपि तरुणो भवेत् ।

नामोर्ध्वं-वेधम-श्रान्तः तां कुर्यात प्रयत्नतः ।

शाण्मास-समभ्यासेन मृत्योः जयेत्य व नश्यति ॥१०८॥

KUMBHAKĀNTE RECAKĀDAU*

KARTAVYASTUḌḌIYĀNAKAḥ ।

BANDHO YENA SUṢUMNĀYĀṀ PRĀṇAḥ STHAD-UḌḌIYĀNA YATAḥ- ॥ 106 ॥

TASMĀDUḌḌIYĀNAKAṀ NITYAṀ YOGIBHIḥ

SAMUDDIYĀNAṀ TU SAHAJAṀ GURUṇĀ KATHITAṀ

SADĀ ॥ 107 ॥

ABHYASET TADATANDRASTU VṚDHO'PI TARUṇO BHAVET ।

NĀBHERURDHVAMADHAŚCĀPI TĀṀ KURYĀT PRAYATNATAḥ ।

ŚĀṆMĀSAMAṀABHYĀSENAMṛTYOḥ JAYETYA VA NAŚYATI ॥108॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

By what means a great bird soars up without rest,

that alone is the Uddiyana and a Bandha is prescribed therefor.

One should assume the Pascima-tana (constricting the belly) posture in the belly above the naval.

This will be the Uddiyana-Bandha, the lion which will quell the elephant of death,

and which binds (the disease-generating) phlegm which is the water of ether having its origin at the (thousand petalled lotus of the

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF RAGHUVIRA VERSE 104

Sahaja

SIMHASANA

VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS A LION

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104-105

JAPA

SADASHIVOHAM

1. Cross ankles and sit on feet.

2. Keep knees wide, fingers spread on top.

3. Open mouth wide, stick out tongue and exhale forcefully.

4. Gaze at tip of nose and repeat several times.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

SIMHASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 3.5-6

दक्षिणं सव्यगुल्फेन दक्षिणेन तथेतरम् ।

हस्ताभ्यां च जानुभ्यः संस्थाप्य स्वाङ्गुलीश्च

प्रसार्य च ॥ ५ ॥

व्यत्तवक्त्रो निरीक्षेत नासाग्रं सुसमाहितः ।

सिंहासनं भवेदेतत् पुजितं योगिभिः सदा ॥

६ ॥

DAKṢIṆAṂ SAVYAGULPHENA DAKṢIṆENA TATHETARAM |

HASTAU CA JĀNVOḤ SAMSTHĀPYA SVĀṆGULĪŚCA PRASĀRYA CA || 5 ||

VYĀTTAVAKTRO NIRĪKṢETA NĀSĀGRAṂ SUSAMĀHITAḤ |

SIMṂHĀSANAM BHAVEDETAT PŪJITAM YOGIBHIḤ SADĀ || 6 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

PRESSING THE RIGHT SIDE (OF THE FRENUM OF THE PREPUCE) WITH THE LEFT HEEL AND THE OTHER SIDE WITH THE RIGHT (HEEL) SIMILARLY, FIRMLY PLACING THE TWO HANDS ON THE TWO KNEES, WITH THEIR FINGERS OUTSTRETCHED, WITH HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND HIS BODY WELL CONTROLLED, HE SHOULD FIX HIS EYES, ON THE TIP OF THE NOSE. THIS WILL BE THE SIMHASANA, ALWAYS ADORED BY YOGIN-S.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHĀKA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

KUMBHĀKA PADDHATI OF RAGHU-VĪRA 104

नोभ्यं-अग्रं समकॢत॒य

कुण्डालयाह् पाॢरुध्योः ।

कॢषिपेत् गच्छता तिसृभिरत॒ देवस-

धारणाभिर्न बलाद्-यदा

अनिःसॄतम् सहजः कुम्भो

प्रोक्तः । डरि-कॢत्तिवाससा॥

NOBHYĀM-AGRAM SAMAKṚTYA

KUṆḌALAYĀḤ PĀRŚVAYOḤ |

KṢIPET GACCHATĀ TIṢṚBHIRATA DEVASA-

DHĀRĀṆĀM NA BALĀD-YADĀ

ANIṢṚTAM SAHAJAḤ KUM-BHAḤ

PROKTAḤ | ḌRI-KṚTTIVĀSASĀ ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

INHALING PRANA THROUGH THE NOSE AND CARRYING IT ALONG THE KUNDALI, ONE SHOULD HOLD IT COMFORTABLY OFF AND ON. THIS IS SAHAJA-KUMBHAKA NARRATED BY SRI-KṚTTIVASA (SHIVA)

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVĪ MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्दॊन्तरबाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतान्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

संसारनिवृत्तिः । तत्पूजनं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

LAKṢYENDO'NTARABĀHYĀBYĀṂ DṚṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀBYĀṂ CA IYAṂ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

SAMSSĀRANIVṚTTIḤ | TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ṢAMBHAVĪ-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपीड्य वायुमाॢकुुचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोॢध्वं समायाति समीरणःः

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नानाबिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनतम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNĀBINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATAM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAM-SIDDHAU YACCHATO NĀTRA SAMŚAYAḤ || 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.

BHADRASANA

PRANAYAMA

BRAHMARI KUMBHAKA

HATHATATVA KAUMUDI 10. 18

BANDHA

JALANDHARA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

109-112

JAPA

SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT ON HEELS UNDER PERINEUM AND KEEP KNEES WIDE.

2. CROSS HANDS BEHIND BACK AND HOLD BIG TOES.

3. APPLY JALANDHARA BANDHA AND GAZE TO NOSE.

*VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE

SPH*

GAZE

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

VERSE 6.2

ASANA

BHADRASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Gheranda Samhita 2.9-10

गुल्फौ च वृषणस्याधो व्युत्क्रमेण

समाहितः ।

पादाङ्गुष्ठौ कराभ्यांच धृत्वा च पृष्ठदेशत

॥ ९ ॥

जालन्धरं समासादय नासाग्रमवलोकयेत

भद्रासनं भवेदेतत् सर्वव्याधिविनाशकम

॥ १० ॥

GULPHAU CA VṚṢṢAṆASYĀDHO

VYUTKREṆA SAMĀHITAḤ |

PĀDĀṆGUṢṬHAU KARĀBHYĀṆCA DHṚTVĀ

CA PṚṢṬHADESĀTAḤ || 9 ||

JĀLANDHARAṂ SAMĀSĀDYA

NĀSĀGRAMAVALOKAYET |

BHADRĀSANAM BHAVETATAT

SARVAVYĀDHIVINĀŚAKAM || 10 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

PLACING BOTH HEELS (HEADS) UPSIDE DOWN UNDER THE TESTICLES, CROSS THE HANDS BEHIND THE BACK AND HOLD THE TOES OF THE FEET AS IN PADMASANA. TAKING THE POSITION OF JALANDHARA BANDHA, FIX THE GAZE ON THE TIP OF THE NOSE.

PRANAYAMA

BHRAMARI KUMBHAKA

Apta Pramana - आप्त प्रमाण

Hathatattvakaumudi 10.18

अथ भामरीॐभक

वegakrutha पूरक भृङ्गानादे भृङ्गीनादे रेचक

मन्दमन्दम् ॥

योगीन्द्राणामेवमभ्यासयोगाच्चित्ते जाता

काचिदानन्दमूर्च्छो ॥१८॥

ATHA BHRĀMARI KUMBHAKAḥ -

BHRAMARI KUMBHAKA

VEGĀKṚṢṬA PŪRAKAṂ BHṚṂṆGANĀDAṂ

BHṚṂṆGĪNĀDAṂ RECĀKAṂ

MANDAMANDAM ||

YOGĪNDRĀṆĀMEVAMABHYĀSAYOGĀCCITTE

JĀTĀ KĀCIDĀNANDAMŪRCCHĀ ||18||

AKASHIC REVELATION

ONE INHALES FORCEFULLY TO PRODUCE THE SOUND RESEMBLING THAT OF A MALE BEE AND EXHALES VERY SLOWLY, CREATING A SOUND SIMILAR TO THAT OF A FEMALE BEE. THIS TECHNIQUE FILLS THE MIND OF A YOGI WITH EXCEPTIONALLY ECSTATIC FEELING.

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Mudra Vidhanam, Nivedana Mudrāḥ 6.2

मध्यमातर्ज्जन्यनुष्टयोगे प्राण-मुद्रा ।

MADHYAMĀTARJANYAṁNUṢṬHAYOGE

PRĀṆA-MUDRĀ |

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHEN THE MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER STAND NEARBY EACH OTHER (WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THE OTHER FINGERS ARE FOLDED), IT IS CALLED PRANA MUDRA.

BANDHA

JALANDHARA BANDHA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Yoga Sikhopanishad 109-112

पुरकते तु कर्तव्यो बन्धो जालन्धराभिधः ॥ १०९ ॥

कण्ठकोषस्य संक्षिप्तौ वायुमर्गनिरोधनम् ।

कुण्डली इव सर्पिणी निद्रां हि माध्यच्छिया ॥ ११० ॥

बन्धे

अधस्तात् कुण्डलिनाष्ठु कण्ठसङ्कोचने कृते ॥ १११ ॥

मध्ये वातनिरोधेन स्तम्भिते प्राणि बन्धनात् ।

कुण्डल्या नादविस्फोटे निलीयते नादबिन्दुषि ॥ ११२ ॥

वेष्टनासन्तिहो योगी चालयित्वा तु कुण्डलीम् ॥ ११३ ॥

PŪRĀKATE TU KARTAVYO BANDHO

JĀLANDHARĀBHIḌHAḤ || 109 ||

KAṆṬHAKOṢASYA SAṂKṢIPTAU

VĀYUMĀRGANIRODHANAM |

KUṆḌALĪ IVA SARPIṆĪ NIDRĀṂ HI

MĀDHYACCHHAYĀ || 110 ||

BANDHE

ADHASTĀT KUṆḌALINĀṢṬHU KAṆṬHASAMKOCANE KṚTE

|| 111 ||

MADHYE VĀTANIRODHE NA STAMBHITE

PRĀṆI BANDHANĀT |

KUṆḌALYĀ NĀDAVISPHOṬE NILĪYATE

NĀDABINDUṢI || 112 ||

VESTAṆĀSANTIHO YOGĪ CĀLAYITVĀ TU

KUṆḌALĪM || 113 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE BANDHA KNOWN AS JALANDHARA SHOULD BE PERFORMED AT THE CLOSE OF THE PURAKA (IN-FILLING THE VITAL AIR). THIS IS OF THE FORM OF CONSTRICTING THE THROAT WITH A VIEW TO OBSTRUCT THE PASSAGE OF VITAL AIR. AFTER CONSTRICTING THE THROAT, HE SHOULD ESTABLISH (THE VITAL AIR) FIRMLY IN THE BOSOM. THIS IS KNOWN AS THE JALANDHARA BANDHA , WHICH CAUSES THE FULL FLOW OF NECTAR. SHOULD THE CONSTRICTION OF THE THROAT BE MADE WITH THE IMMEDIATE CONTRACTION OF THE NETHER PART, BY (PERFORMING) PAŚCIMATĀNĀ IN THE MIDDLE, THE PRANA (VITAL AIR) WILL REACH THE BRAHMA-NĀḌI.

PRANAYAMA

Brahmari Kumbhaka

Hathatatva Kaumudi 10. 18

44. KAKABHUSANDI ASANA

Visualize yourself as a crow

BANDHA

Mula Bandha

Yoga Sikhopanishad 104-105

JAPA

SADASHIVOHAM

1. Squat and keep feet flat on the ground and knees opened wide.

2. Bring arms in and around the back, and interlace fingers behind.

3. Gaze to the nose.

GAZE

MUDRA

Paruśu Mudra

Mudra Vidhanam 10. 17

ASANA

KAKABHUSANDI ASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA

328-329

प्रथमें वैसक उकड ठानें

दौ हाथ पगं व्यिचि आनैं

तिन को मोडी नल्यां परि ल्यवै

पिठि पड़ै कांकसी करवै ॥ 328

या आसन के कीये ते दीर्घ जुग सुर सब जाय

जेतराम यो कीजिये नासाद्रिष्टि

लागाय ॥329॥

PRATHAME VAISAKA UKAṬA ṬHĀNAI

DOU HĀTHA PAGAM̐ VYACI ĀNAI

TINA KO MOṬI NALYĀM̐ PARI LYAVAI

PIṢṬU PACHAI KĀMKASĪ KARAVAI ‖ 328

YĀ ĀSANA KE KĪYE TE DĪRAGHU JURA

SABA JĀYA

JAITARĀMA YO KĪJIYAI NĀSĀDRIṢṬU

LAGĀYA ‖329‖

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHILE SITTING IN SQUATTING POSITION

BRING BOTH HANDS BETWEEN THE LEGS

BY TURNING THEM OVER THE SHINS

(AND) FORM THE FINGER LOCK AT THE

BACK. THE GAZE BE FIXED AT THE TIP

OF THE NOSE.

PRANAYAMA

BHRAMARI KUMBHĀKA

APTA PRAMANA - आप्त प्रमाण

HATHATATTVAKAUMUDI 10.18

अथ भ्रामरीकुम्भक

वेगा‌कृष्ट पूरक भृङ्गानाद भृङ्गीनाद रेचक

मन्दमन्दम्‌ ॥

योगीन्द्राणामेवमभ्यासयोगाच्चित्ते जाता

काचिदानन्दमूर्च्छो‌ऽ॥18॥

ATHA BHRĀMARĪ KUMBHĀKAḤ

BHRAMARĪ KUMBHĀKA

VEGĀKṚṢṬA PŪRAKAM BHṚṂṆGANĀDAM

BHṚṂṆGĪNĀDAM RECĀKAM

MANDAMANDAM ‖

YOGĪNDRĀṆĀMEVAMABHYĀSAYOGĀCCITTE JĀTĀ

KĀCIDĀNANDAMŪRCCHO‌ʼ॥18॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

ONE INHALES FORCEFULLY TO PRODUCE

THE SOUND RESEMBLING THAT OF A

MALE BEE AND EXHALES VERY SLOWLY,

CREATING A SOUND SIMILAR TO THAT

OF A FEMALE BEE. THIS TECHNIQUE

FILLS THE MIND OF A YOGI WITH

EXCEPTIONALLY ECSTATIC FEELING.

MUDRA

PARUŠU MUDRA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHANAM 10.17

तले तले तु करयो-स्तिर्यक संयोज्य

चांगुलीः ।

सहता: प्रसृत: कुर्वीत मुद्रा परशु संजिता ॥

TALE TALE TU KARAYO-STIRYAK SAMYOJYA

CĀM̐GULĪḤ ।

SAM̐HATĀḤ PRASṚTĀḤ KURYĀT MUDRĀ PARASU SAMJINITĀ ‖

AKASHIC REVELATION

FOR EVERY PART/STEP INTERLACED THE

FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS, CONTRACT

AND EXPAND THEM, NAMED AS

PARASHU MUDRA.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

S̄ASTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपीड्य वायुमा‌कु‌ञ्चयेद्‌

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू मूलबन्धन

चैकेतात्‌म्‌ ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢṆYĀ TU SAM̐PĪṬYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT ।

VĀRAM VĀRAM YATHĀ CORDHVAM

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ ‖ 104 ‖

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM ।

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAM̐SIDDHAUṂ YACCHATO NĀTRA

SAMŚAYAH ‖ 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.

KANI PAVA ASANA

PRANAYAMA

BRAHMARI KUMBHAKA

HATHATATVA KAUMUDI 10. 18

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

SADASHIVOHAM

1. PLACE PALMS ON THE FLOOR, SHOULDER WIDTH APART.

2. BRING KNEES ON BACK OF ARMS TOWARDS ARMPITS.

3. LEAN CHIN FORWARD AND DOWN AND GAZE AHEAD.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

ASANA

KANI PAVA ASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Yoga Asanamala Sacitra 94

आसण कौ गुण आसि दुषता होई तो आछी होई

ĀSANA KAU GUṆ ĀSI DUṢĀTĀ HOĪ TO ĀCHĪ HAUĪ

AKASHIC REVELATION

PLACE THE HANDS ON THE GROUND WITH COMFORTABLE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM. BEND THE HANDS AT ELBOWS. RAISE THE LEGS OFF THE GROUND AND PLACE THE KNEES ON THE RESPECTIVE ELBOWS AND BALANCE THE BODY ON PALMS.

PRANAYAMA

BHRAMARI KUMBHAKA

Apta Pramana - आप्त प्रमाण

Hathatattvakaumudi 10. 18

अथ भामरीमभक

वेगाकृष्ट पूरक भृङ्गनादे भृङ्गीनाद रेचक

मन्दमन्दम् ॥

योगीन्द्राणामेवमभ्यासयोगाच्चित्ते जाता काचिदानन्दमूर्च्छो ॥१८॥

ATHA BHRĀMARĪ KUMBHAKAḥ - BHRAMARI KUMBHAKA

VEGĀKRṢṬA PŪRAKAṀ BHṚṂGANĀDAM BHṚṂGĪNĀDAM RECAKAṀ

MANDAMANDAM ||

YOGĪNDRĀṆĀMEVAMABHYĀSAYOGĀCCITTE JĀTĀ KĀCIDĀNANDAMŪRCCHĀ ||18||

AKASHIC REVELATION

ONE INHALES FORCEFULLY TO PRODUCE THE SOUND RESEMBLING THAT OF A MALE BEE AND EXHALES VERY SLOWLY, CREATING A SOUND SIMILAR TO THAT OF A FEMALE BEE. THIS TECHNIQUE FILLS THE MIND OF A YOGI WITH EXCEPTIONALLY ECSTATIC FEELING.

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.

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVI MUDRA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Mandala Brahmanopanishad 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्बाह्याभ्यां दृश्टौच

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जितायां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्जाननेन

तत्पूजनं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKṢYENTRABHĀHYĀYāM DrṢṬAUcA

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYāṁ CA IYAṁ

ŚāMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAIJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOṢAPHALADAM || 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 ṢAMBHAVI-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Yoga Sikhopanishad

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु सम्पीड्य वायुं माकूञ्चयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṀ PāRṢṆYā TU SaṁPīṬYA

VĀYUṀMĀKUÑCAYED BALāT |

VāRAṀ VARAṀ YATHā CORDHVAṀ

SAMĀYāTI SAMīRAṆaḥ || 104 ||

PRāṆāPāNAU NāNDABINDŪ

MūLABANDHENA CAIKATāṁ |

GATVā YOGASYA SaṀSIDDHIṁ

YACCHATO NāTRA SaṁŚAYaḥ || 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.

KAPALI ASANA

PRANAYAMA

BRAHMARI KUMBHAKA

HATHATATVA KAUMUDI 10. 18

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

SADASHIVOHAM

1. PLACE HANDS ON THE GROUND, SHOULDER WIDTH APART.

2. BRING TOP OF THE HEAD ON THE GROUND,

FORMING A TRIANGLE BETWEEN HANDS AND HEAD.

3. BRING KNEES ONTO THE ELBOWS, HIPS OVER SHOULDER AND STRAIGHTEN THE LEGS UP.

4. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

*VISUALIZE SWAMIJ, THE

SPH*

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

KAPALI ASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA

113-115

सीस सीषा धरती टेकी पग दोऊ मिलिवा ऊचा

कु करे

पगथली आकास दिसि सनमुष राषी दोऊ हाथा

की हथेली दोऊ

पासत्या धरती टेकौं द्रिष्टि नासाअथ

आसण कौगुण रहै कपाली आसन जाम

सेतबाल होइ

अवे स्याम आरसो कालगयाना की जांइ साच

मान बु हबंद

बषाने सिरतरी करि पग ऊंचा धरे पहलौं छिन

अक्यासह करे

दिन तै संधि साधों आगे तीनमासमै जुगली

भागै

SISA SIṢĀ DHARATĪ ṬEKĪ PAGA DOŪ MILIVĀ ŪCĀ

KU KARAI

PAGATHALĪ ĀKĀSA DISI SANAMUṢA RĀṢAI DOŪ HĀTHĀ

KĪ HATHELĪ DOŪ

PĀṢATYĀ DHARATĪ ṬEKAŪ DRIṢṬI NĀSĀAGRA

ĀSANĀ KAUGUṆA RAHĀI KAPĀLĪ ĀSANA JĀMA

SETABĀLA HOĪ

AVE SYĀMA ORASO KĀLAGYĀNA KĪ JĀN SĀCA

SĀCA MĀNA BAHU BEDĀ

BAṢĀNAI SIRATARI KARI PAGA ŪCĀ DHA RAI PAHALAU CHINA

ABHYĀSAHA KARAI

DINA TAI SAMDHI SĀDHAUM ĀGAI TĪNAMĀSAMAI JUGALĪ

BHĀGAI

AKASHIC REVELATION

PLACE THE HEAD AND BOTH OF THE

HANDS ON THE GROUND AND

STRETCH BOTH THE LEGS UPSIDE; GAZE

SHOULD BE AT THE TIP OF THE NOSE.

PRANAYAMA

BHRAMARI KUMBHAKA

APTA PRAMANA - आप्त प्रमाण

HATHATATTVAKAUMUDI 10.18

अथ भामरीसमभक

वegakr̥ṣṭa pūrakaṁ bhramiṅganādaṁ

bhramiṅgīnādaṁ recakaṁ

mandamandam ||

yogīndrānāmevamabhyāsayogāccitte

jātā kācidānandamūrccrhā ||18||

ATHA BHRĀMARĪ KUMBHAKAḥ

BHRAMARI KUMBHAKA

VEGAKR̥ṢṬA PŪRAKAṀ BHṚṂṆGANĀDAṀ

BHṚṂṆGĪNĀDAṀ RECAKAṀ

MANDAMANDAM ||

YOGĪNDRĀNĀMEVAMABHYĀSAYOGĀCCITTE

JĀTĀ KĀCIDĀNANDAMŪRCCHĀ ||18||

AKASHIC REVELATION

ONE INHALES FORCEFULLY TO PRODUCE

THE SOUND RESEMBLING THAT OF A

MALE BEE AND EXHALES VERY SLOWLY,

CREATING A SOUND SIMILAR TO THAT

OF A FEMALE BEE. THIS TECHNIQUE

FILLS THE MIND OF A YOGI WITH

EXCEPTIONALLY ECSTATIC FEELING.

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्बाह्याभ्यां दृश्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जितां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति | सर्वतान्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविदया भवति | तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् || ५

||

LAKṢYENTARBĀHYĀYĀM DRṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀṂ CA IYAM

ṢĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOṢAPHALADAM || 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 ṢAMBHAVI-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

ATTĀINED FREEDOM AND COMPLETION

FROM THE STATE OF WORLDLY

EXISTENCE.BY ITS WORSHIP, IS

BESTOWED THE FRUIT OF LIBERATION.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो तु संपिड़य वायुमा कुंचयेद्

बलात् |

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

|| १०४ ||

प्राणापानौ नानदबिन्दू मूलबन्धन

चैकेकताम् |

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ नात्र

संशय: || १०५ ||

GUDAṀ PĀṢṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪṬIYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṀ VARAṀ YATHĀ CORDHVAṀ

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḥ || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKĀTĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHIṂ

YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂṢAYAH || 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.

TRITHIYA VINYASA YOGA

PARŚVA MAYURASANA

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

SADASHIVOHAM

1. SQUAT ON TOES WITH LEGS TOGETHER.

2. TWIST THE BODY AND PLACE BOTH HANDS TO ONE SIDE,

ALIGN ELBOWS WITH KNEE AND HIP.

3. LEAN ONTO THE ARMS AND BALANCE, EXTEND LEGS TO SIDE

AND GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS A PEACOCK*

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMĀNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

PARŚVA MAYURASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṄA - आप्त प्रमाण

HATHARATNAVALI 3. 10, 44

मायूरं दण्डवत्कुर्यान्मायूरं दण्डनामकम्

कुर्यान्मायूरं पार्श्वाभ्यां मायूरपार्श्वनामकम्

॥४४॥

MAYŪRAM

DANDAVATKURYĀNMĀYŪRAṂ

DAṆḌANĀMAKAM

KURYĀNMĀYŪRAṂ PĀRŚVĀBHYĀṂ

MĀYURAPĀRŚVANĀMAKAM ||44||

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHEN MAYURA IS PRACTICED LIKE A HORIZONTAL STICK, IT IS CALLED DANDA MAYURA. THIS SAME WHEN PRACTICED ON BOTH THE SIDES, IS PARSVA MAYURA.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोर्ध्वं रेचयेत् वायूं मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक ।

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUṂ MR'DUNIS'VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTVES'A VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆASAṂS'AYAKĀRAKAH ||19||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्बाह्याभ्यां दृष्ट्टौं

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जितां च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKSYE'NTARBĀHYĀBHYĀṂ DRśṬṬAṂ

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀṂ CA IYAṂ

ŚĀṄBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAIJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु सम्पीड्य वायुमाकुंचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀŚṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAH || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHAU YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂS'AYAH || 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.

PARŚVA MAYURASANA

(REPEATED)

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS A PEACOCK*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

GAZE

JAPA

SADASHIVOHAM

1. SQUAT ON TOES WITH LEGS TOGETHER.

2. TWIST THE BODY AND PLACE BOTH HANDS TO ONE SIDE,

ALIGN ELBOWS WITH KNEE AND HIP.

3. LEAN ONTO THE ARMS AND BALANCE, EXTEND LEGS TO SIDE

AND GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

PARŚVA MAYURASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṇA - आप्त प्रमाण

HATHARATNAVALI 3. 10, 44

मायूरं दण्डवत्कुर्यान्मायूरं दण्डनोमकं

कुर्यान्मायूरं पार्श्वोभ्यां मायूरपार्श्वनोमकं

॥४४॥

MAYŪRAM

DANDAVATKURYĀNMĀYŪRAṂ

DANḌANĀMAKAM

KURYĀNMĀYŪRAṂ PĀRŚVĀBHYĀṂ

MĀYURAPĀRŚVANĀMAKAM ||44||

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHEN MAYURA IS PRACTICED LIKE A HORIZONTAL STICK, IT IS CALLED DANDA MAYURA. THIS SAME WHEN PRACTICED ON BOTH THE SIDES, IS PARSVA MAYURA.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṇA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायुम् मृदुनिश्वास संयुक्तम्

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यात: प्राणसंशयकारक ।

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUM MR'DUNIS'VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTVES'A VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆSAMŚAYA KĀRAKAH ||19||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṇA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्‍बाह्याभ्यां दृष्ट्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKSYE'NTARBĀHYĀBHYĀṂ DRśṬṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀBHYĀṂ CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAIJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपीड्य वायुमाकुंचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAH || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHAU YACCHATO NĀTRA SAMŚAYAH || 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.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BHAIRAGANATHA

ASANA

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS LORD

KALABHAIRAVA*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

GAZE

JAPA

SADASHIVOHAM

1. PLACE BOTH HANDS ON THE GROUND,

SHOULDER WIDTH APART.

2. STRETCH THE LEGS BACK STRAIGHT INTO TARAKSVASANA.

3. STEP ONE FOOT OUTSIDE THE RESPECTIVE SHOULDER, BRINGING

THE FOOT BETWEEN THE HANDS.

4. GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

BHAIRAGANATHA ASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

YOGA ASANAMALA SACITRA 95

आसण कौ गुण पीती जाई

ĀSAṆA KAU GUṆA PĪTĪ JĀĪ

AKASHIC REVELATION

PUT BOTH HANDS ON GROUND AT WIDTH OF THE SHOULDERS AND STRETCH THEM. STRETCH BOTH THE LEGS BACKWARDS. BEND THE RIGHT KNEE AND CROSS IT OVER THE RIGHT ARM AND PLACE THE RIGHT FOOT BETWEEN TWO HANDS. RAISE THE HEAD UP A LITTLE.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHĀKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायुमृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्

॥ १९॥

RECĀKASTVE'Ā VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆASAṂŚAYAKĀRAKAH |

SAMS'AYA KĀRAKAH ॥19॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

LAKSYE'NTARBĀHYĀBHYĀṂ DRṣṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀBHYĀṂ CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI |

SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ

BHAVATI | TAIJÑĀNENA SAMSĀRANIVṚTTIṢ |

TATPŪJANAM MOṢAPHALADAM ॥ 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु सम्पीड्य वायुमाकुंचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणः:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धीघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀRṢṆYĀ TU SAMPĪḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VARAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAM

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAH ॥ 104 ॥

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAMSIDDHIṂṂ

YACCHATO NĀTRA SAMSAYAH ॥ 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.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BHAIRAGANATHA

ASANA

(REPEATED)

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

SADASHIVOHAM

1. PLACE BOTH HANDS ON THE GROUND,

SHOULDER WIDTH APART.

2. STRETCH THE LEGS BACK STRAIGHT INTO TARAKSVASANA.

3. STEP ONE FOOT OUTSIDE THE RESPECTIVE SHOULDER, BRINGING

THE FOOT BETWEEN THE HANDS.

4. GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS LORD

KALABHAIRAVA*

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

BHAIRAGANATHA ASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

YOGA ASANAMALA SACITRA 95

आसण कौ गुण पीती जाई

ĀSAṆA KAU GUṆA PĪTĪ JĀĪ

AKASHIC REVELATION

PUT BOTH HANDS ON GROUND AT WIDTH OF THE SHOULDERS AND STRETCH THEM. STRETCH BOTH THE LEGS BACKWARDS. BEND THE RIGHT KNEE AND CROSS IT OVER THE RIGHT ARM AND PLACE THE RIGHT FOOT BETWEEN TWO HANDS. RAISE THE HEAD UP A LITTLE.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHĀKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायुमृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्

॥ १९॥

RECĀKASTVE'Ā VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆASAṂŚAYAKĀRAKAH |

SAMS'AYA KĀRAKAH ॥19॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जितां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

LAKSYE'NTARBĀHYĀBHYĀṂ DRśṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀṂ CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAIJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM ॥ 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 ŚAMBHAVI-MUDRA IS ASSUMED. THIS MAHĀ-VIDYA (THE GREAT ULTIMATE SOURCE KNOWLEDGE) IS, OF ALL THE TANTRAŚ, 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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो तु संपीड्य वायुमाकुंचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणः:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धीघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀRṢṆYĀ TU ŚAMPĪḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VARAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAM

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAH: ॥ 104 ॥

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAMSIDDHIṂ YACCHATO NĀTRA SAMŚAYAH ॥ 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.

UNMUKHAPITHA

ASANA

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

SADASHIVOHAM

1. FROM TARAKSVASANA (HANDS AND FEET), PLACE FOREARMS ON GROUND AND WALK FEET FORWARD RAISING THE HIPS.

2. LIFT CHEST, HEAD UP AND GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

ASANA

UNMUKHAPITHA ASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

NATHAMUNI'S YOGA RAHASYA 6.17

भून्यस्तौ जानुनी हस्तौ

चतुष्पदमवाड्मुखम्

उत्तापिताधिग्रयुगलकटिस्थलमभिरुक

BHŪNYASTAU JĀNUNĪ HASTAU

CATUSPĀDAMAVĀṆMUKHAM

UTTHĀPITĀṆGHRIYUGALAKATĪSTHALAMABHIRUKA

BHIRUKĀ

AKASHIC REVELATION

LIE IN PRONE POSITION. PLACE

FOREARMS AND FEET ON GROUND. RAISE

THE TRUNK AND HEAD TOWARDS SKY

TAKING SUPPORT FROM ELBOWS AND

KNEES OR TOES.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायुम् मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यात: प्राणसंशयकारक ।

SAMS'AYA KA'RAKAH ॥19॥

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUM MR'DUNIS'VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTVESA VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆSAMŚAYAKĀRAKAH |

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE

STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE

PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS

KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS

INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA

OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविदया भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKSYE'NTARBĀHYĀBHYĀṂ DR$ṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀBHYĀṂ CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

TATPUUJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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

ATTANED FREEDOM AND COMPLETION

FROM THE STATE OF WORLDLY

EXISTENCE.BY ITS WORSHIP, IS

BESTOWED THE FRUIT OF LIBERATION.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु सम्पीड्य वायुमाकुंचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

प्राणापानौ नानाबिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धीघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAM PĀṢAṆYĀ TU SAMPĪDYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAM VĀRAM YATHĀ CORDHVAM

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNĀBINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAMSIDDHIṂI YACCHATO NĀTRA

SAMŚAYAḤ || 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.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

SADASHIVOHAM

VAŚIŚTĀSANA

1. FROM TARAKSVASANA (PLANK ON HANDS AND TOES), ROTATE THE BODY ONTO ONE HAND AND RAISE OPPOSITE HAND UP.

2. KEEP THE BALANCING HAND DIRECTLY BENEATH THE SHOULDER.

3. RAISE HIPS AND GAZE TOWARDS SKY.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS SAGE VASHISTA

ASANA

VĀŚIṢṬĀSANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

NATHAMUNI'S YOGA RAHASYA 2.17

ऊर्ध्वकुक्कुट वासिष्ठ मरीीच हल मत्स्यकम्

परिवृत्ति चोदरस्य विविधं धनुरासनम्

ŪRDHVAKUKKUṬA VĀŚIṢHA MARĪCI HALA MATSYAKAM

PARIVṚTṬIṂ CODARASYA VIVIDHAṂ DHANURĀSANAM

AKASHIC REVELATION

FROM TARAKSVASANA TURN TO ONE SIDE AND REST BODY ON ONE HAND. STRETCH THE OTHER ARM OVERHEAD ALIGNING SHOULDERS.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA YOGA PADA 19

ततोर्ध्वं रेचयेत् वायुमृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्

|| १९||

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यात: प्राणसंशयकारक ।

SAMŚAYA KĀRAKAH ||19||

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUMṚDUNIS´VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTVES´A VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆA

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्ब्याह्याया दृष्ट्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताया च इयम्

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति | सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविदया भवति | तज्जानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् || ५ ||

|| 3.5 ||

LAKSYE'NTARBĀHYĀYĀṂ DṛSṬṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀṂ CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAIJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOḲṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-MUDRA IS ASSUMED. THIS MAHĀ-VIDYA (THE GREAT ULTIMATE SOURCE KNOWLEDGE) IS, OF ALL THE TANTRAŚ, 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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपीड्य वायुमाकुंचयेद्

बलात् |

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

|| १०४ ||

प्राणापानौ नादबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् |

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ नात्र

संशय: || १०५ ||

GUDAṂ PĀṢṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAM SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAH || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHAU YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂŚAYAH || 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.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

VAŚIŚTASANA

(REPEATED)

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS

SAGE VASHISTA*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

GAZE

JAPA

SADASHIVOHAM

1. FROM TARAKSVASANA (PLANK ON HANDS AND TOES), ROTATE THE

BODY ONTO ONE HAND AND RAISE OPPOSITE HAND UP.

2. KEEP THE BALANCING HAND DIRECTLY BENEATH

THE SHOULDER.

3. RAISE HIPS AND GAZE TOWARDS SKY.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

VĀŚIṢṬHĀSANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

NATHAMUNI'S YOGA RAHASYA 2.17

ऊर्ध्वकुक्कुट वासिष्ठ मरीीच हल मत्स्यकम्

परिवृत्ति चोदरस्य विविधं धनुरासनम्

ŪRDHVAKUKKUṬA VĀŚIṢHA MARĪCI HALA MATSYAKAM

PARIVṚTṬIṂ CODARASYA VIVIDHAṂ DHANURĀSANAM

AKASHIC REVELATION

FROM TARAKSVASANA TURN TO ONE SIDE AND REST BODY ON ONE HAND. STRETCH THE OTHER ARM OVERHEAD ALIGNING SHOULDERS.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA YOGA PADA 19

ततोर्ध्वं रेचयेत् वायुमृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यात: प्राणसंशयकारक ।

SAMŚAYA KĀRAKAH ||19||

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUMṚDUNIS'VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTVES'A VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆA

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्ब्याह्याया दृष्ट्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताया च इयम्

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविदया भवति । तज्जाननेन

तत्पूजनं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

LAKSYE'NTARBAHYĀYĀM DṛSṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀM CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ

BHAVATI | TAIJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-MUDRA IS ASSUMED. THIS MAHĀ-VIDYA (THE GREAT ULTIMATE SOURCE KNOWLEDGE) IS, OF ALL THE TANTRAŚ, 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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104 - 105

गुदं पाश्र्वणयो तु संपीड्य वायुमाकुंचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

संश्य: ॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀRŚVṆAYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VARAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAM SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAH || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHIṂ YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂŚAYAH || 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.

54. ANJANI ASANA

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

JALANDHARA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

109-112

JAPA

MAHA-

SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT WITH LEGS STRETCHED, TOES POINTING UP.

2. BRING HANDS UNDER BUTTOCKS, PALMS FACING UP.

3. KEEP SPINE STRAIGHT, ELBOWS TO BODY.

4. TUCK CHIN TO CHEST AND GAZE TO THE NOSE.

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS

LORD HANUMAN*

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

ANJANI ASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA

283-286

दोऊ करकी उभई हाथेली कोर वारीली मैले भेली ।

सो आगें भूपरि दारै माहाने अंगुली मिलि राखै ॥२८३॥

अंगुष्ठ छोडि राखै दोऊ पुनह हाथेली पिस्ठि जु जोई ।

तां परि मूल द्वारि टिकै वैसै बहुरष्यो जुगति करै एक

वैसै ॥ २८४॥

कुरुथुरि माहिली आसि मिलावै हाथ उदसौं लगि राहै ।

बहुरौ लावा पाव पसारै फुणि उभै एड़ि भु दारै ॥२८५॥

अंगुष्ठ अवरि गुलफा माहिली राखि जुडै करि नेहा पुनि ट

साधै नासा द्रिष्टि लागी ता को हरसि रोग सबजाइ ॥

२८६॥

DOU KARAKI UBHAI HATHELI KORA VARILI MAILE BHELI |

SO ĀGAṀNAI BHŪPARI DĀṚAI MĀHĀṀNAI AṀGULĪ MILI RĀṢAI ॥283॥

AṀGUṢṬHA CHĪDĀ RĀṢAI DOĪ PUNAHA HATHELĪ PIṢṬHI JU JOĪ |

JU JŌ Ī |

TĀ PARI MŪLĀ DVĀRĪ ṬIKAI VAISE BAHURAYYO JUGATI KARAI EKA

VAISE ॥ 284॥

KUHUṀHYĀṀ MAHILĪ ĀṢI MILĀVAI HĀṬHĀ UDRASAU

LAGĀ RAHĀ I |

BAHURAU LĀṂVĀ PĀVĀ PASĀRE PHUṆI UBHĀI EṬHI BHŪ DĀRE ॥285॥

AṀGUṢṬHA AVARA GULPHĀ MĀHILĪ RĀṢI JUṬAI KARI NEHĀ PUNI Ṭ

SĀDHAI NĀSĀ DRĪṢṬI LĀGĪ TĀ KO HARASA ROGA SABJĀI ॥

286॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

PLACE BOTH THE HANDS OF RESPECTIVE SIDES ON THE GROUND WITH PALM UPTURNED, FINGERS WILL REMAIN STRAIGHT AND TOGETHER. THE BACK PART OF THE PALM SHOULD BE NEAR ANUS, HANDS SHOULD TOUCH THE SIDES OF THE ABDOMEN. EXTEND LEGS IN FRONT WITH TOES POINTING UPWARD AND HEELS ON THE GROUND. HEELS AND TOES SHOULD REMAIN TOGETHER. GAZE SHOULD BE NASAL. THIS WARDS OFF HARASA DISEASES.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHĀKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA ĀGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायुम् मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक ।

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VAYUM MR'DUNIS'VASA SAMYUTAM |

NIS'VASA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTVES'A VIKHYATAH PRAṆAṀS'AYAKĀRAKA |

SAMS'AYA KĀRAKAH ॥19॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA OUT.

MUDRA

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येणोन्तर्ब्याह्याया दृप्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जिताय च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविदया भवति । तज्जाननेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKSYE'NTARBAHYĀYĀM DrSTAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITAYĀM CA IYAṀ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI |

SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ

BHAVATI | TAIJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM ॥ 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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

JALANDHARA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 109-112

पुरकते तु कर्तव्यो बन्धो जालन्धराभिधः ॥ १०९ ॥

कण्ठकोषस्य संक्षिप्तौ वायुमर्गनिरोधकः ।

कुण्डलिन्यं मुद्रयेत् स्वयम् स्पर्शनेच्छया ॥ ११० ॥

बन्धे तु कुवलेनात्रषु कण्ठसङ्कोचने कुते ॥ १११ ॥

अधस्तात् कुच्यनेनात्रषु कण्ठसङ्कोचने कुते । मध्य नाडीतणं स्वयात् प्राणे

कुण्डल्या नाड्या संचारिता न निवेश्यति ॥ ११२ ॥

वेधासस्थितो योगी चालयित्वा तु कुण्डलीम् ॥

PŪRAKATE TU KARTAVYO BANDHO JĀLANDHARĀBHIḌHAḤ ॥ 109 ॥

KAṆṬHAKOṢASYA SAṀKSIPTAU VAYUMĀRGANIRODHAKAḤ |

KUNḌALINYAM MUDRAYET SVAYAM SPARS'ANECHCHHAYĀ ॥ 110 ॥

BANDHE TU KUVALAYENĀTROṢU KAṆṬHASAMKOCANE KṚTE ॥ 111 ॥

ADHASTĀT KUCYANE NĀTROṢU KAṆṬHASAMKOCANE KRTE | MADHYE NĀḌĪTAṆAM SVAYĀT PRĀṆE

KUNḌALYĀ NĀḌYĀ SAṀCĀRITĀ NA NIVES'YATI ॥ 112 ॥

VAJRĀSANASTHITO YOGĪ CĀLAYITVĀ TU KUṆḌALĪM ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE BANDHA KNOWN AS JALANDHARA SHOULD BE PERFORMED AT THE CLOSE OF THE PURAKA (IN-FILLING THE VITAL AIR). THIS IS OF THE FORM OF CONSTRICTING THE THROAT WITH A VIEW TO OBSTRUCT THE PASSAGE OF VITAL AIR. AFTER CONSTRICTING THE THROAT, HE SHOULD ESTABLISH (THE VITAL AIR) FIRMLY IN THE BOSOM. THIS IS KNOWN AS THE JALANDHARA BANDHA , WHICH CAUSES THE FULL FLOW OF NECTAR. SHOULD THE CONSTRICTION OF THE THROAT BE MADE WITH THE IMMEDIATE CONTRACTION OF THE NETHER PART, BY (PERFORMING.) PAŚCIMATĀNA IN THE MIDDLE, THE PRANA (VITAL AIR) WILL REACH THE BRAHMA-NADI.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

55. PAŚCIMATĀNASANA

BANDHA

MAHAMUDRA BANDHA

SHIVA SAMHITA

4. 16-17

JAPA

MAHA-SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT WITH LEGS STRETCHED OUT.

2. BEND FROM THE WAIST AND HOLD THE BIG TOES WITH INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS.

3. BRING CHEST TO THIGHS, HEAD TO KNEES, AND ENGAGE ALL THREE BANDHAS.

GAZE

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

VERSE 6.2

ASANA

PASCIMATANASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

TRISIKHI BRAHMANOPANISHAD 50

जानूपरि ललाटं तु पश्चिमं ताणमुच्यते ।

येन केन प्रकारेण सुखं धार्यं च जायते ॥ ५० ॥

JĀNŪPARI LALĀṬAṀ TU PAŚCIMAṀ

TĀṆAMUCYATE |

YENA KENA PRAKĀREṆA SUKHAṀ

DHĀRYAṀ CA JĀYATE || 50 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

STRETCH LEGS ON GROUND AND THEN PROPERLY CATCH HOLD OF TOES WITH HANDS AND LOWER THE FOREHEAD ON KNEES.

PRANAYAMA

RECĀKA KUMBHĀKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA ĀGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोर्ध्वं रेचयेत् वायुमृदुनिश्वास संयुतम् ।

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक । ॥ १९॥

TATORDHVAṀ RECAYET VĀYUMṚ'DUNIS'VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECĀKASTVES'A VIKHYĀ'TAH

PRĀṆASAṀS'AYAKĀRAKAH ||19||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRĀNA. THIS MODE OF PRĀṆĀYĀMA IS KNOWN AS RECĀKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRĀNA OUT.

MUDRA

PRĀNA MUDRĀ

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRĀ VIDHĀNAM, NIVEDANĀ

MUDRĀḤ 6.2

मध्यमातर्ज्जन्येनुष्ठयोगे प्राण-मुद्रा ।

MADHYAMĀTARJANYAMṢṬHAYOGE PRĀṆA-MUDRĀ |

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHEN THE MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER STAND NEARBY EACH OTHER (WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THE OTHER FINGERS ARE FOLDED), IT IS CALLED PRĀṆA MUDRĀ.

BANDHA

MAHAMUDRĀ BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

DHYANABINDU PANISAD 91 - 93

शोधनं मलजालानां घटनं चन्द्रोदय: । ९१ ।

सारांश शोषणं सम्यङ् महामुद्राभिधीयते ॥ ९२ ॥

वक्ष:स्थलेऽथर्वनिपीडय सुधिरं योनेश्च

वामाङ्घ्रिहस्ताभ्यामुदरायन् प्रविततं तथा ।

आपूर्य श्वासनेन कुक्षियुगलं बध्वा शनै रेचयेदेश

पातकनाशिनी ननु महामुद्रा नृणां प्रोच्यते । ९३ ॥

SODHANAṀ MALAJĀLĀNĀṀ GHAṬANAṀ CANDRODDAYAH | 91 ||

SĀRĀṀṢ'A SOS'AṆAṀ SAMYAṀG MAHĀMUDRĀBHIDHĪYATE || 92 ||

VAKS'AHSTHALERTHARVANIPĪṬAYA SUDHIRAM YONESC'A

VĀMĀṆGHRHASTĀBHYĀMUDARĀYAN PRAVIṬATAM |

ĀPŪRYA SVĀSANENA KUKṢ'IYUGALAM BADHVĀ ŚANAI RECAYEDES'A

PĀTAKANĀŚINĪ NANU MAHĀMUDRĀ NṚṆĀṀ PROCYATE | 93 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE CLEANSING (WITH THE PRĀṆĀYĀMA) OF THE HEAPS OF IMPURITIES (IN THE NĀḌIS), THE BRINGING ABOUT OF THE UNION BETWEEN THE MOON AND THE SUN, THE COMPLETE DRYING UP OF THE BODILY FLUIDS, RASAS (VĀTA, PITTA AND KAPHA), IS KNOWN AS THE MAHĀMUDRĀ. WITH THE CHIN LAID ON THE CHEST, PRESSING THE ABYSS OF THE GENITALS WITH THE LEFT FOOT, HOLDING WITH THE TWO HANDS THE OUTSTRETCHED RIGHT LEG, FILLING WITH BREATH THE PAIR OF BELLIES AND HOLDING IT UP, ONE SHOULD SLOWLY EXHALE IT. THIS INDEED IS SAID TO BE THE SIN-DESTROYING MAHĀ-MUDRĀ FOR MEN.

UGRĀSANA

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

MAHAMUDRA BANDHA

SHIVA SAMHITA

4. 16-17

JAPA

MAHA-

SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT WITH LEGS STRAIGHT AND APART.

2. CLASP HANDS BEHIND THE HEAD AND LEAN CHEST FORWARD AND DOWN, BRINGING THE HEAD TO KNEES.

3. ENGAGE ALL THREE BANDHAS.

*VISUALIZE KALI IN

YOUR INNER SPACE*

GAZE

MUDRA

PARUŚU MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

10. 17

ASANA

UGRASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SHIVA SAMHITA 3. 92-94

स्वपाणिभ्यां हृढं पादौ जानुप्ररि शिरो न्यसेत् ।

आसीनयोगी प्रफुल्ल: स्यात् वयसि निस्त्रिच्छेपाम् ।

देवीसंयोगे प्रचिता: भवेच्चित्तविनोदिनी ततः ।

य परमादानं श्रेष्ठं प्रयत्नं साधयेत्सुखी: ॥ ९२ ॥

वायु: परिममार्गेण तस्माद्वायुमरुन्धति व्रतम् ।

एतद्द्वयेनैव सिद्धिं सायुज्यं लभते जतु ॥ ९३ ॥

एतस्यै गोपितव्यं तु यस्माद्‌ विस्मयकृत्स्थितम् ।

वेधं सोधयति मेधां च देवं ध्यात्वा दिवौकसाम् ॥ ९४ ॥

SVAPĀNIBHYĀṀ HṚḌHAṀ PĀDAU JĀNUPRARI SIRO NYASET |

ĀSĪNAYOGĪ PROFULLAḤ SYĀT VAYASI NISTRICCHEPĀM |

DEVĪSAṀYOGE PRACITĀḤ BHAVECCITTAVINODINĪ TATAḤ |

YA PARAMĀDĀNAṀ ŚRESṬHAṀ PRATYAṀN SĀDHAYETSUKHĪḤ || 92 ||

VĀYUḤ PARIMAMĀRGEṄA TASMĀDVĀYUMARUNDHATI VRATAM |

ETADVAYENAIVA SIDDHIṀ SĀYUJYAṀ LABHATE JATU || 93 ||

ETASYAI GOPITAVYAṀ TU YASMĀD VISMAYAKṚTSITHAM |

VEDHAṀ SODHAYATI MEDHĀṀ CA DEVAṀ DHYĀTVĀ DIVAUKASĀM || 94 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

STRETCH OUT BOTH THE LEGS AND KEEP THEM APART; FIRMLY TAKE HOLD OF THE HEAD BY THE HANDS, AND PLACE THEM ON THE KNEES. THIS IS CALLED UGRASANA (THE STERN-POSTURE), IT EXCITES THE MOTION OF THE AIR, DESTROYS THE DULLNESS AND UNEASINESS OF THE BODY, AND IS ALSO CALLED PASCHIMA-UTTANA (THE POSTERIOR CROSSED POSTURE.) THAT WISE MAN WHO DAILY PRACTICES THIS NOBLE POSTURE CAN CERTAINLY INDUCE THE FLOW OF THE AIR UP THROUGH THE ANUS. THOSE WHO PRACTICE THIS OBTAIN ALL THE SIDDHIS; THEREFORE, THOSE, DESIROUS OF ATTAINING POWER, SHOULD PRACTICE THIS DILIGENTLY. THIS SHOULD BE KEPT SECRET WITH THE GREATEST CARE, AND NOT BE GIVEN TO ANYBODY AND EVERYBODY. THROUGH IT, VAYU-SIDDHI IS EASILY OBTAINED, AND IT DESTROYS A MULTITUDE OF MISERIES.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोर्ध्वं रेचयेत् वायूं मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्रवेश विध्यात: प्राणसंशयकारक ।

संस्रया कारक: ॥

TATORDHVAṀ RECAYET VĀYUṀ MṚDUNISVĀSA SAMYUTAM

|| 19||

RECĀKASTVES'Ā VIKHYĀTAḤ PRĀṆASAṀSAYAKĀRAKA |

SAMSR'AYA KĀRAKAḤ ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA OUT.

MUDRA

PARUŚU MUDRA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṄA - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHANAM 10.17

तले तले तु करयो-सितर्यक संयोज्य

चांगुली: ।

संहतै: प्रसृतै: कुर्व्यात मुद्रा परशु संजिता ॥

TALE TALE TU KARAYO-SITYAK SAMYOJYA

CĀṀGULĪḤ |

SAṀHATĀḤ: PRASṚTĀḤ: KURYĀT MUDRĀ PARASU SAṀJNITĀ ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

FOR EVERY PART/STEP INTERLACED THE FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS. CONTRACT AND EXPAND THEM, NAMED AS PARASHU MUDRA.

BANDHA

MAHAMUDRA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

DHYANABINDU PANISAD 91–93

शोधनं मलजालानां घटनं चन्द्रोदययो: ।

॥ ९१ ॥

सारणं शोषणं समृद्धं महामुद्राभिधीयते ।

॥ ९२ ॥

वक्षोऽन्येनाहतुनिपीडय सुरिति योनेश्च

वामाङ्घ्रिहस्तस्याभ्यामनुद्धारणं प्रविततं पाद तथा ।

दक्षिणं ।

आर्षेयं श्वसनं कुक्षियगतं बध्वा शनै: रेचयेदेश

पातकनाशिनी ननु महामुद्रा नृणां प्रोच्यते ।

॥ ९३ ॥

SODHANAṀ MALAJĀLĀNĀṀ GHATANAṀ CANDRODAYAYO: |

|| 91 ||

SĀRAṆAṀ SOSANAṀ SAMṚDDHAṀ MAHĀMUDRĀBHIDHĪYATE |

|| 92 ||

VAKSṢO'NYENĀHATUNIPĪḌAYA SURITI YONEŚCA

VĀMĀṆGHRIHASTASYĀBHYĀMANUDDHRĀRAṆAṀ PRAVITATAM PĀDA TATHĀ |

DAKṢIṆAṀ |

ĀPṚYA ŚVASANAṀ KUKṢIYAGATAṀ BADHVĀ ŚANAIḤ RECAYEDESA

PĀTAKANĀŚINĪ NANU MAHĀMUDRĀ NṚṆĀṀ PROCYATE |

|| 93 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE CLEANSING (WITH THE PRANAYAMA) OF THE HEAPS OF IMPURITIES (IN THE NADIS), THE BRINGING ABOUT OF THE UNION BETWEEN THE MOON AND THE SUN, THE COMPLETE DRYING UP OF THE BODILY FLUIDS, RASAS (VAATA, PITTA AND KAPHA), IS KNOWN AS THE MAHĀMUDRĀ. WITH THE CHIN LAID ON THE CHEST, PRESSING THE ABYSS OF THE GENITALS WITH THE LEFT FOOT, HOLDING WITH THE TWO HANDS THE OUTSTRETCHED RIGHT LEG, FILLING WITH BREATH THE PAIR OF BELLIES AND HOLDING IT UP, ONE SHOULD SLOWLY EXHALE IT. THIS INDEED IS SAID TO BE THE SIN-DESTROYING MAHA-MUDRA FOR MEN.

57

MARICI ASANA

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHĀKA

KUMBHĀKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

MAHA-

SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT WITH LEGS EXTENDED.

2. BRING ONE HEAL TO GROIN, KNEE RAISED.

3. REACH ARM IN AND AROUND RAISED KNEE AND CLASP HANDS

BEHIND THE BACK.

4. BRING THE CHEST TO THIGH, HEAD TO KNEE.

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS SAGE MARICI*

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

MARICI ASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

NATHAMUNI'S YOGA RAHASYA

1. 51, 2. 17

उतानपादे क्रौञ्च च मरीचीं वीरभद्रकं । नटराजं त्रिकोनं च सुप्तांगष्टप्रसारण ।।

UTTĀNAPĀDAṂ KRAUÑCAṂ CA MARĪCīṂ VĪRABHADRAKAṂ | NAṬARĀJAṂ TRIKONĀṂ CA SUPTĀṆGASṬHAPRASĀRAṆE ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

Uttanapadasana, Krauncasana, Maricyasana, Virabhadrasana, Natarajasana, Trikonasana, Supta Padangusthasana and Supta Prasarita Padangustasana.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Srimat Sarvajnanaottra Agama

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत वायूं मृदुनिश्वास संयुतं । रेचकस्त्र्वेष विध्यात: प्राणसंशयकारक ।। १९ ।।

TATORDHVAṂ RECAYET VĀYUṂ MṚDUNIS´VĀSA SAMYUTAM | RECĀKASTVESĀ VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆASAṂS´AYAKĀRAKAH ||19||

AKASHIC REVELATION

The Sadhaka should empty the stomach by slowly exhaling the Prana. This mode of Pranayama is known as Recaka which is instrumental in driving the Prana out.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Mandala Brahmanopanishad 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ निमेषोनमेषवर्जितां च इयं शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन संसारनिवृत्ति: । तत्पूर्जानं मोक्षफलदम् ।। ५ ।।

LAKSYE'NTARBĀHYĀBHYĀṂ DrṢṬAU NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀṂ CA IYAṂ ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAIJJÑĀNENA SAMSSĀRANIVṚTTIH | TATPŪJANAM MO KṢAPHALADAM || 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 Śambhavi-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपिडय वायुमाकुंचयेद बलात । वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरन: ।। १०४ ।। प्राणापानौ नानाबिन्दु मूलबंधेन चैकतां । गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धीघि यच्छतो नात्र संशय: ।। १०५ ।।

GUDAṂ PĀṢṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪDYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT | VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAH || 104 || PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNĀBINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀṂ | GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHIṂ YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂS´AYAH || 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.

MAHAMUDRA ASANA

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

MAHAMUDRA BANDHA

SHIVA SAMHITA

4. 16-17

JAPA

MAHA-

SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT WITH LEGS STRETCHED, TOES UP.

2. BRING ONE HEEL TO PERINEUM AND LET KNEE FALL TO THE SIDE

ON GROUND.

3. REACH AND HOLD THE FOOT KEEPING THE LEG STRAIGHT.

4. BRING THE CHEST FORWARD AND DOWN, ENGAGE ALL THREE

BANDHAS, AND GAZE TO NOSE.

GAZE

MUDRA

MAHAMUDRA BANDHA

SHIVA SAMHITA

4. 16-17

*VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE

SPH*

ASANA

MAHAMUDRA ĀSANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SHIVA SAMHITA 4.16-17

अथ महामुद्रासनम्।

महामुद्रा वक्ष्यामि तन्त्रेऽस्मिन्‌नम वल्लभे ।

या प्राण्य सिध्दाः: सिध्दैश्च किलालदाः: पुराताः ॥ १६ ॥

अनसूयेयं संप्राप्य पद्मासनं सदाहराम् ।

गुरुप्रदेशतो योगी गुदमुद्रांनुसंधयेत्‌ ॥

सव्यं प्रसारितं पादं धृत्वा पाणियुगो न हि ।

नतद्वारेण संयम्य चिबुकं हृदयोपरी ॥

चित्रं चिताप्य दत्वा पादमेवाधिसंधयेत्‌ ॥

महामुद्राविधौ सद्भिः: सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोपिता ॥

वामाङ्घ्रिसंयकृत्यागोपी वामजङ्घाधिसंयुताम्‌ ॥ १७ ॥

प्राणायामं समं कृत्वा योगी नियतमासनः ।

ATHA MAHĀMUDRĀKATHANAM |

MAHĀMUDRĀṀ PRAKĀṢYĀMI TANTRĒ'SMINNAMA VALLABHE |

YĀṀ PRĀPṚYĀ SIDDHĀḤ SIDDHAIŚCA KILĀLADĀḤ PURĀṢĀTĀḤ || 16 ||

APASYĀYEYAṀ SAMPRĀPṚYA PADMĀSANAM SADĀHARĀM |

GURUPRADESATTO YOGĪ GUDEMUDRĀṀNUSANDHAYET ||

SAVYAṀ PRASĀRITAṀ PĀDAṀ DHṚTVĀ PĀṆIUGO NA HI |

NATADVĀREṆA SAMYAMYA CIBUKAṀ HṚDAYOPARĪ ||

CITTAṀ CITĀPYA DATTVĀ PĀDAMEVĀDHISANDHAYET ||

MAHĀMUDRĀVIDHOU SADBHĪḤ SARVATANTRĒṢU GOPITĀ ||

VĀMĀṆGHṚISAMYAKṚTVĀGOPĪ VĀMAJAṆGHĀDHISAMYUTĀM || 17 ||

PRĀṆĀYĀMAṀ SAMAM KṚTVĀ YOGĪ NĪYATAMĀSANĀḤ ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

MY DEAREST, I SHALL NOW DESCRIBE TO YOU

THE MAHAMUDRA, FROM WHOSE KNOWLEDGE

THE ANCIENT SAGES KAPILA AND OTHERS

OBTAINED SUCCESS IN YOGA. IN ACCORDANCE

WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE GURU, PRESS

GENTLY THE PERINEUM WITH THE HEEL OF THE

LEFT FOOT. STRETCHING THE RIGHT FOOT OUT,

HOLD IT FAST BY THE TWO HANDS. HAVING

CLOSED THE NINE GATES (OF THE BODY), PLACE

THE CHIN ON THE CHEST. THEN CONCENTRATE

THE VIBRATIONS OF THE MIND AND INSPIRE AIR

AND RETAIN IT BY KUMBHAKA (SO LONG AS

ONE CAN COMFORTABLY KEEP IT). THIS IS THE

MAHAMUDRA, HELD SECRET IN ALL THE

TANTRAS. THE STEADY-MINDED YOGI, HAVING

PRACTICED IT ON THE LEFT SIDE SHOULD THEN

PRACTICE IT ON THE RIGHT SIDE; AND IN ALL

CASES MUST BE FIRM IN PRANAYAMA - THE

REGULATION OF HIS BREATH.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोर्ध्वं रेचयेत् वायुम्‌ मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्‌

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्र्वेष विध्यात: प्राणसंशयकारक: ।

संस्रया कारक: ॥

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUM MR'DUNIS'VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

|| 19||

RECĀKASTVĒṢA VIKHYĀTAḤ PRĀṆASAṀS'AYAKĀRAKAḤ |

SAMS'AYA KĀRAKAḤ ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE

STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE

PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS

KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS

INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA

OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येणोत्तरबाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्जाननेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKṢYĒ'NTARABĀHYĀBHYĀṀ DṛṢṬAU

NIMĒṢONMĒṢAVARJITĀBHYĀṀ CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAIJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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

MAHAMUDRA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

DHYANABINDUPANISAD 91–93

शोधनं मलजालानां घटनं चन्दनसूर्ययो:

॥ ९१ ॥

सारणं शोषणं सम्यक् महामुद्राभिधीयते ॥ ९२ ॥

वक्षोऽन्तर्निपीडय सुरतिं योनेश्च

वामाङ्घ्रिगुह्याश्रयामनुदारयन् प्रविततं पादं तथा

दक्षिणम्‌ ।

आपीय श्वसनं कुक्षियुगलं बध्वा शनै रेचयेदेश

पातकनाशिनी ननु महामुद्रा नृणां प्रोच्यते ॥ ९३ ॥

SODHANAṀ MALAJĀLĀNĀṀ GHAṬANAṀ CANDANASŪRYAYO:

|| 91 ||

CĀRAṆAṀ SŌṢAṆAṀ SAMYAK MAHĀMUDRĀBHIDHĪYATE || 92 ||

VAKṢŌ'NTARNIPĪḌAYA SURATIṀ YŌNEŚCA

VĀMĀṆGHṚIGUHYĀS'RAYĀMANUDĀRAYAN PRAVITATAM PĀDAṀ TATHĀ

DAKṢIṆAM |

ĀPŪRYA S'VASANAM KUKṢIYUGAṀ BADHVĀ S'ANAI RECAYEDES'Ā

PĀTANĀS'INĪ NANU MAHĀMUDRĀ NṚṆĀṀ PROCYATE || 93 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE CLEANSING (WITH THE

PRANAYAMA) OF THE HEAPS OF

IMPURITIES (IN THE NADIS), THE

BRINGING ABOUT OF THE UNION

BETWEEN THE MOON AND THE SUN,

THE COMPLETE DRYING UP OF THE

BODILY FLUIDS, RASAS (VAATA, PITTA

AND KAPHA), IS KNOWN AS THE

MAHĀMUDRĀ. WITH THE CHIN LAID

ON THE CHEST, PRESSING THE ABYSS OF

THE GENITALS WITH THE LEFT FOOT,

HOLDING WITH THE TWO HANDS THE

OUTSTRETCHED RIGHT LEG, FILLING

WITH BREATH THE PAIR OF BELLIES

AND HOLDING IT UP, ONE SHOULD

SLOWLY EXHALE IT. THIS INDEED IS

SAID TO BE THE SIN-DESTROYING

MAHA-MUDRA FOR MEN.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

MARICI ASANA

(REPEATED)

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS SAGE MARICI*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

MAHA-

SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT WITH LEGS EXTENDED.

2. BRING ONE HEAL TO GROIN, KNEE RAISED.

3. REACH ARM IN AND AROUND RAISED KNEE AND CLASP HANDS

BEHIND THE BACK.

4. BRING THE CHEST TO THIGH, HEAD TO KNEE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMĀNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

MARICI ASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

NATHAMUNI'S YOGA RAHASYA

1. 51, 2. 17

उतानपादे क्रौञ्च च मरीचीं वीरभद्रकं । नटराजं त्रिकोनं च सुप्ताङ्गष्टप्रसारण ।।

UTTĀNAPĀDAṂ KRAUÑCAṂ CA MARĪCīṂ VĪRABHADRAKAṂ | NAṬARĀJAṂ TRIKONĀṂ CA SUPTĀṆGĀṢṬHAPRASĀRAṆE ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

Uttanapadasana, Krauncasana, Maricyasana, Virabhadrasana, Natarajasana, Trikonasana, Supta Padangusthasana and Supta Prasarita Padangustasana.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Srimat Sarvajnanaottra Agama

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत वायूं मृदुमनिश्वास संयुतं । रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक ।। १९ ।।

TATORDHVAṂ RECAYET VĀYUṂ MṚDUMANIŚVĀSA SAMYUTAM | RECĀKASTVEṢA VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆASAṂŚAYAKĀRAKAH ||19||

AKASHIC REVELATION

The Sadhaka should empty the stomach by slowly exhaling the prana. This mode of Pranayama is known as Recaka which is instrumental in driving the prana out.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Mandala Brahmanopanishad 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ निमेषोनिमेषवर्जितां च इयं शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन संसारनिवृत्ति: । तत्पूर्जानं मोक्षफलदम् ।। ५ ।।

LAKṢYENTARBĀHYĀBHYĀṂ DṛṣṬAU NIMEṢONIMEṢAVARJITĀṂ CA IYAṂ ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAIJJÑĀNENA SAṂSĀRANIVṚTTIḤ | TATPŪJANAM MOṢAPHALADAM || 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 Śambhavi-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपिड्य वायुमाकुंचयेद बलात । वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण: ।। १०४ ।। प्राणापानौ नादबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन चैकताम । गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धीघि यच्छतो नात्र संशय: ।। १०५ ।।

GUDAṂ PĀṢṢHYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT | VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ || 104 || PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM | GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHIṂ YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂŚAYAH || 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.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

MAHAMUDRA ASANA

(REPEATED)

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

BANDHA

MAHAMUDRA BANDHA

SHIVA SAMHITA

4. 16-17

GAZE

JAPA

MAHA-SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT WITH LEGS STRETCHED, TOES UP.

2. BRING ONE HEEL TO PERINEUM AND LET KNEE FALL TO THE SIDE

ON GROUND.

3. REACH AND HOLD THE FOOT KEEPING THE LEG STRAIGHT.

4. BRING THE CHEST FORWARD AND DOWN, ENGAGE ALL THREE BANDHAS, AND GAZE TO NOSE.

MUDRA

MAHAMUDRA BANDHA

SHIVA SAMHITA

4. 16-17

ASANA

MAHAMUDRA ĀSANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SHIVA SAMHITA 4.16-17

अथ महामुद्रासनम्‌ ।

महामुद्रा वक्ष्यामि तन्त्रेऽस्मिन्न्‌ वल्लभे ।

या प्राण्य सिध्दाः सिध्दैश्च किलालदाः: पुराताः ॥ १६ ॥

अनसूयां संपीड्य पद्मासन सदादरम्‌ ।

गुरुपदेशतो योनिं गुदमुद्रांनिरोधनलगाम्‌ ॥

सव्यं प्रसार्य तु पादं तु पाणियुग्मेन धारयेव्‌ ।

नतद्वारेण संयम्य चिबुकं हृदयोपरी ॥

चित्तं चिताप्य दत्वा पादमेवावलम्बयेत्‌ ।

महामुद्राविधौ सद्गुरुत्वं सरवन्तरेषु गोपितं ।

वामाङ्ङेन समं कुर्यात्‌ दक्षिणां गुदमुद्रया ॥ १७ ॥

प्राणायामं समं कृत्वा योगी नित्यमतामनासु ॥

ATHA MAHĀMUDRĀKATHANAM |

MAHĀMUDRĀṀ PRAKĀṢYĀMI TANTRĒ'SMINN MINAM VALLABHE |

YĀṀ PRĀṆYA SIDDHĀḤ SIDDHAIŚCA KILĀLADĀḤ PURAKĀTĀḤ || 16 ||

APASŪYĀṀ SAMṔĪḌYA PADMĀSANA SĀDARAM |

GURUPADEŚATO YONIM GUDAMUDRĀNIRODHANLAGĀM ||

SAVYAṀ PRASĀRYA TU PĀDAṀ TU PĀṆIYUGMEN DHĀRAYET |

NATADVĀREṆA SAMYAMYA CIBUKAMṀ HṚDAYOPARĪ ||

CITTAṀ CITĀPYA DATVĀ PĀDAMEVĀVALAMBAYET |

MAHĀMUDRĀVIDHAU SADGURUTVAṀ SARVANTAREṢU GOPITAṀ |

VĀMĀṄGENA SAMAM KURYĀT DAKṢIṆĀṀ GUDAMUDRAYĀ || 17 ||

PRĀṆĀYĀMAṀ SAMAM KṚTVĀ YOGĪ NITYAMATANĀSU ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

MY DEAREST, I SHALL NOW DESCRIBE TO YOU

THE MAHAMUDRA, FROM WHOSE KNOWLEDGE

THE ANCIENT SAGES KAPILA AND OTHERS

OBTAINED SUCCESS IN YOGA. IN ACCORDANCE

WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE GURU, PRESS

GENTLY THE PERINEUM WITH THE HEEL OF THE

LEFT FOOT. STRETCHING THE RIGHT FOOT OUT,

HOLD IT FAST BY THE TWO HANDS. HAVING

CLOSED THE NINE GATES (OF THE BODY), PLACE

THE CHIN ON THE CHEST. THEN CONCENTRATE

THE VIBRATIONS OF THE MIND AND INSPIRE AIR

AND RETAIN IT BY KUMBHAKA (SO LONG AS

ONE CAN COMFORTABLY KEEP IT). THIS IS THE

MAHAMUDRA, HELD SECRET IN ALL THE

TANTRAS. THE STEADY-MINDED YOGI, HAVING

PRACTICED IT ON THE LEFT SIDE SHOULD THEN

PRACTICE IT ON THE RIGHT SIDE; AND IN ALL

CASES MUST BE FIRM IN PRANAYAMA - THE

REGULATION OF HIS BREATH.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोर्ध्वं रेचयेत्‌ वायुम्‌ मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्‌

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्रवेश विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक ।

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUM MR'DUNIS'VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTVES'A VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆAṀSAMŚAYAKĀRAKA |

SAMS'AYA KĀRAKAH ||19||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE

STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE

PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS

KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS

INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA

OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येण्‌दन्तर्‌ बाह्याया दृष्ट्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जितायां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्जाननेन्‌

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम्‌ ॥ ५

॥

LAKṢYĒ'NTAR BĀHYĀYĀM DrṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀṀ CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAIJJÑĀNENA SAMSĀRANIVṚTṬIH |

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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

ATTĀINED FREEDOM AND COMPLETION

FROM THE STATE OF WORLDLY

EXISTENCE.BY ITS WORSHIP, IS

BESTOWED THE FRUIT OF LIBERATION.

BANDHA

MAHAMUDRA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

DHYANABINDU PANISAD 91-93

शोधनं मलजालानां घटनं चन्द्रोदययोः । ९१ ॥

सारांशं शोषणं सम्यक्‌ महामुद्राभिधीयते ॥ ९२ ॥

वक्षोऽन्तःस्थननिपीडय सुरतिं योनेश्च

वामाङ्ङिहस्ताभ्यां समुद्रायरन्‌ प्रविततं पाद तथा

दक्षिणम्‌ ।

आपूर्य श्वासनन्‌ कुक्षिगलं बध्वा शनैः रेचयेदेश

पातकनाशिनी नन्तु महामुद्रा नृणां प्रोच्यते । ९३ ॥

ŚODHANAṀ MALAJĀLĀNĀṀ GHAṬANAṀ CANDRODAYAYOḤ | 91 ||

CANDRĀSURYAṀSAMBHŪTE SARVĀTANTRĒṢU GOPYATE ||

SAṀKSÉPAṀ ŚOṢAṆAṀ SAMYAK MAHĀMUDRĀBHIDHĪYATE || 92 ||

VAKṢONTAḤSTHANANIPĪḌAYA SURATIM YONEŚCA

VĀMĀṄGIHASTĀBHYĀṀ SAMUDRĀYARATE PRAVITTATAM PĀDAM TATHĀ

DAKṢIṆAM |

ĀPŪRYA ŚVĀSANAN KUKṢIGALAṀ BADHVĀ ŚANAIḤ RECAYEDESA

PĀTAKANĀŚINĪ NANTU MAHĀMUDRĀ NR'ṆĀṀ PROCYATE | 93 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE CLEANSING (WITH THE

PRANAYAMA) OF THE HEAPS OF

IMPURITIES (IN THE NADIS), THE

BRINGING ABOUT OF THE UNION

BETWEEN THE MOON AND THE SUN,

THE COMPLETE DRYING UP OF THE

BODILY FLUIDS, RASAS (VAATA, PITTA

AND KAPHA), IS KNOWN AS THE

MAHĀMUDRĀ. WITH THE CHIN LAID

ON THE CHEST, PRESSING THE ABYSS OF

THE GENITALS WITH THE LEFT FOOT,

HOLDING WITH THE TWO HANDS THE

OUTSTRETCHED RIGHT LEG, FILLING

WITH BREATH THE PAIR OF BELLIES

AND HOLDING IT UP, ONE SHOULD

SLOWLY EXHALE IT. THIS INDEED IS

SAID TO BE THE SIN-DESTROYING

MAHA-MUDRA FOR MEN.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BHADRASANA 2

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

MAHA-SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT AND BRING SOLES OF FEET TOGETHER WITH HEELS CLOSE TO THE PERINEUM.

2. KEEP KNEES WIDE AND HOLD THE FEET FIRMLY.

3. MAINTAIN A STRAIGHT SPINE AND GAZE TO NOSE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

BHADRASANA 2

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṇA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD I. 3-8

गुल्फौ तु वृषणस्याधः सीवन्या: पाशर्वयो: क्षिपेत् ।

पादपाश्वे तु पाणिभ्यां हढ बद्धवा सuniścalam ।

भद्रासनं भवेदेतत् सर्वव्याधिविषापहम् ॥ ८ ॥

GULPHAU TU VṚṢAṇASYĀDHAH SĪVANYĀḥ PĀŚVAYOḥ KṢIPET |

PĀDAPĀRŚVE TU PĀṆIBHYĀṂ ḌṚḌHAṂ BADDHVĀ SUNIŚCALAM |

BHADRĀSANAM BHAVEDETAT SARVAVYĀDHIVIṢĀPAHAM || 8 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

(THE Yogin) SHOULD PLACE THE TWO ANKLES OF THE LEG BELOW THE TESTICLES, ON EITHER SIDE THE FRENUM OF THE PREPUCE. THEN WITH BOTH HANDS HOLDING FIRMLY THE TWO FEET BY THEIR SIDES, AND REMAINING MOTIONLESS. THIS WILL BE THE BHADRASANA, THE PANACEA FOR ALL ILLS AND THE ANTIDOTE AGAINST ALL POISONS.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHĀKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṇA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA ĀGAMA YOGA PADA 19

ततोर्ध्वं रेचयेत् वायूं मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यात: प्राणसंशयकारक ।

SAMS'AYA KĀRAKAH ||19||

TATORDHVAṂ RECAYET VĀYUṂ MṚDUNiśVĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTV'EṢA VIKHYĀTAḥ PRĀṆA

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṇA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येणोन्दर्‌र्बाह्याया दृष्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताया च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविदया भवति । तज्जाननेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

LAKṢYENA'NTAR'BĀHYĀYĀṂ DṛṣṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀṂ CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104 - 105

गुदं पाश्वंयो तु संपीड्य वायुमाकुñ्चयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नानाबिन्दु मूलबन्धन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀRŚVAM̥YĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḥ || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNĀBINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHA conclusive yogasya siddhiṃ YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂŚAYAH || 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.

GVALIPAVA ASANA

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

JALANDHARA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

109-112

JAPA

MAHA-

SADASHIVOHAM

1. FROM BHADRASANA, EXTEND FEET AWAY FROM BODY.

2. KEEP TOES TOGETHER, HEELS APART, KNEES OPEN.

3. PLACE HANDS ON RESPECTIVE KNEES AND TUCK THE CHIN TO CHEST.

4. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

ASANA

GVALIPAVASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA

256-257

पूर्व चरपटचोक कह्यो सोई

वाधि विधि यो कीजै सोई

य मे एड़ी भिंन जु राषै

अंगुल आथ अन्तरो राषै॥२५६

च्योबुक कठकूप मे ठाँनो

नासा अग्र दिष्ट को ठाँनो

या करि जालंधर बंध होई

साधक साधै विधि सो कोई॥२५७

PŪRVA CARAPAṬACOKA KAHYO SOĪ

VĀHI VIDHI YO KĪJAI SOĪ

YA ME EḌĪ BHIṄNA JU RĀṢAI

AṄGULA ĀTH ANTARO RĀṢAI॥256

CYUBUKA KAṬHĀKUPA ME ṬHĀNO

NĀSĀ AGRA DIṢṬA KO ṬHĀMNO

YĀ KARI JĀLAṄDHARA BAMDH HOĪ

SĀDHAKA SĀDHAI VIDHI SO KOĪ॥257

AKASHIC REVELATION

THIS IS PRACTICED IN THE MANNER OF

CARPATACAUKASANA. IN THIS ASANA,

KEEP BOTH THE HEELS SEPARATE AT A

DISTANCE OF EIGHT FINGERS. CHIN WELL

PLACED AT THE JUGULAR KNOTCH. GAZE

AT THE TIP OF NOSE.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायुम् मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम् ।

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक ।

SAMS'AYA KĀRAKAH ॥19॥

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUM MR'DUNIŚVĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTVES'A VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆSAMŚAYAKĀRAKAH |

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE

STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE

PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS

KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS

INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA

OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्‍बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKSYE'NTARBĀHYĀBHYĀṂ DRṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀBHYĀṂ CA IYAṂ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAIJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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

ATTANED FREEDOM AND COMPLETION

FROM THE STATE OF WORLDLY

EXISTENCE.BY ITS WORSHIP, IS

BESTOWED THE FRUIT OF LIBERATION.

BANDHA

JALANDHARA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 109-112

पुरकात्‍वे तु कर्तव्यो बन्धो जालंधराभिध । ॥ १०९ ॥

कण्ठकूपस्योपरि वायुमागिरेरिन्द्रियैः सह ।

कण्ठमार्गे कुरुते चेद्ध्यां जालंधरो बन्ध उच्यते ॥ ११० ॥

बन्धेsस्मिन् कुज्चनेऽनाश्व कठसंकोचने कुरते ॥ १११ ॥

मध्ये तु वातनिरोधनं स्तम्भे प्राणे बन्धनादिगः ।

कुण्डल्याः क्रियया तत्र निवृत्तेष्टा तु योगी चालयेत्‍वा कुण्डलीम् ॥ ११२ ॥

PŪRĀKĀT TṚTU KARṬAVYO BANDHO JĀLAṄDHARĀBHIDHAH || 109 ||

KAṆṬHAKŪPSYOPARI VĀYUMĀGIRERINDRIYAIS SAH |

KAṆṬHAMĀRGE KURUTEH DHYĀṂ JĀLAṄDHARO BANDHA UCYATE || 110 ||

BANDHESMIN KUṄCANENĀŚVA KAṬHASAṂKOCANE KURATE || 111 ||

MADHYE TU VĀTANIRODHANAṂ STHAMBHYE PRĀṆE BANDHANĀDIGAḤ |

KUṆḌALYĀ GRANTHITRAYAVIBHEDANENA

NIVR'TTEṢṬĀ TU YOGĪ CĀLAYITVĀ TU KUṆḌALĪM || 112 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE BANDHA KNOWN AS JALANDHARA

SHOULD BE PERFORMED AT THE CLOSE

OF THE PURAKA (IN-FILLING THE VITAL

AIR). THIS IS OF THE FORM OF

CONSTRICTING THE THROAT WITH A

VIEW TO OBSTRUCT THE PASSAGE OF

VITAL AIR. AFTER CONSTRICTING THE

THROAT, HE SHOULD ESTABLISH (THE

VITAL AIR) FIRMLY IN THE BOSOM. THIS

IS KNOWN AS THE JALANDHARA

BANDHA , WHICH CAUSES THE FULL

FLOW OF NECTAR. SHOULD THE

CONSTRICTION OF THE THROAT BE

MADE WITH THE IMMEDIATE

CONTRACTION OF THE NETHER PART,

BY (PERFORMING.) PAŚCIMATĀNA IN

THE MIDDLE, THE PRANA (VITAL AIR)

WILL REACH THE BRAHMA-NADI.

JONI ASANA

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

MAHA-

SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT AND KEEP SOLES OF FEET TOGETHER

AND HEELS CLOSE TO THE PERINEUM.

2. HOLD THE SOLES OF THE FEET AND LEAN FORWARD AND DOWN.

3. BRING FOREHEAD TO FEET AND GAZE TO THE NOSE.

*VISUALIZE THE YONI

MANDALA*

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

JONI ASANA

Äpta Pramāṇa - သाप्त प्रमाण

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA

214-218

दौआ पगढ्ली सपुटं करें

एडी मेटु के दिग धरे

अधे हाथ को आंतर रखे

लिलाट पगढल्यां उपर डासै।ॢ14

दसोँ आएगुरी अङ्ग मिलावे

कर्णा अङ्ग पर ले पह्रवे

काखुणी लो भूपरि कर डासै।ॢ15

नाली काहुणी मिलिवाइ राषी ।ॢ15

सम करी राषी सकल सरीर

नासा दिट्ट लगावे धीर

मुख मार्ग सो वाई गहै।ॢ16

अओस्कार्ष होय होय ते हो हे।ॢ16

इडा नाडी कर पवन उतारें

वार सात या जुगते विचारे

चिर्डतोँ चड़तोँ कमिक साधे।ॢ17

वार सात या जुगते अरधे ।ॢ17

वध होय माल मुट्र को वायेह कोय

या इासान के करत ही दर्विभूत सो होय ।ॢ18

DOU PAGATHALĠ SAPUṬA KARAI

EDĠ METṬU KĒ DṜIGA DHARAI

ARDHA HĀTHA KO ĀMṬARA RĀKṬAI

LILĀṬ PAGATHALYĀṬ UPARA DĀSAI।14

DASOṬ ĀNGURĠ AGRA MILĀVEI

PHAṇĀ AGRA PARALE PAHARĀVEI

KĀKHUṇĠ LO BHÜPARI KARA DĀSAI।15

NĀLĠ KĀHUṇĠ MILIVĀI RĀṇĠ।15

SAMĀ KARI RĀṇĠ SAKALA SARĠRA

NĀSĀ DRIṬṬA LAGĀVAI DHĠRA

MUṇĀ MĀRAGA SO VĀI GAHAI

ĀṇKĀRA HOYA SO TĀVU HOI HĒ।16

IḌĀ NĀḌĠ KARA PAVANA UTĀRE

VĀRA SĀTA YA JUGATI VICĀRE

CĀDHATO CĀDHATO KAMBHĀKAKA SĀDHE

VĀRA SĀTA YA JUGATI ĀRADHE।17

VANDHA HOYA MALA MÜTRA KO VĀYĒ VIGRAHAI KOYĀ

YĀ ĀSANA KE KARATA HĠ DRAVIBHÜTĀ SO HOI।18

AKASHIC REVELATION

JOIN BOTH THE SOLES TOGETHER AND PUT THE HEELS NEAR THE GENERATIVE ORGAN AT A DISTANCE OF HALF HAND (12 FINGERS). CATCH HOLD OF SOLE WITH THE HELP OF ALL THE TEN FINGERS. BRING ELBOWS ON THE GROUND NEAR THE SHINS. BALANCE THE WHOLE BODY. GAZE AT THE TIP OF NOSE.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोआर्व्म् रेचयेत् वायुं मर्दुनिशवास सयुतम्।।19।

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यातः प्राणस्यह्यकारकर्।

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUM MRĀDUNIŚVĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECĀKASTVESĀ VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṇA SAMŚAYAKĀRAKAH।19||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येंतर्बाह्यायाँ दृष्टौह्।

निमेषोनमेषवजितायाँ च इयुं

शींभर्वी मुद्रा भवति।। सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तजजानेन

समसारनिवृत्तिह। तत्पूजनेन मोक्षफलदम्।।5।

LAKṪYĒNTARBĀHĀYĀM DRṬTĀU

NIMEṇONMEṇAVARJITĀYĀM CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĠ MUDRĀ BHAVATI |

SARVATANTREṇU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ

BHAVATI | TAJJĀNENA SAMŚĀRANIVRṬTIH |

TATPŬJANAM MOKṇAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-MUDRA IS ASSUMED.THIS MAHĀ-VIDYA (THE GREAT ULTIMATE SOURCE KNOWLEDGE) IS, OF ALL THE TANTRA'S, 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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुद्म् पाष्ण्योँ तु सपीडिय वायुमाकुंचयेद् बलात्।

वारें वारें यथा चेदर्व्म् समायाति समीरणाह।

प्राणापानौउ नानदबिंदु मूलबन्धन्

गात्वा योगस्य सम्सिद्धीह्।

accomplishment of Yoga. Herein there is no doubt.

GUDAM PĀRṇĀYĀ TU ŚAMPIḌṬYĀ

VĀYUMĀKUNĀCYED BALĀT |

VĀRAM VĀRAM YATHĀ CORDHVAM

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĬRAṇAH।104||

PRĀṇĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŬLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAMSIDDHIMṬ

YACCHATO NĀTRA SAMŚĀYAH।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.

MIDAKIPAVA ASANA

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHĀKA

KUMBHĀKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

MAHA-SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT AND KEEP HEELS TOGETHER, TOES APART AND KNEES WIDE.

2. LEAN FORWARD AND DOWN AND EXTEND HANDS OUT WIDE,

PALMS DOWN ON GROUND.

3. BRING FOREHEAD TO THE GROUND BEHIND THE HEELS AND GAZE

TO THE NOSE.

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

MIDAKIPAVA ASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

YOGA ASANAMALA SACITRA 61

पूरब विधि परि पगथली संपूट षोल येडी मिलि राशे येड़्यास्यू माहिली कानि अगूल दो आतरेलिलाट धरति लगावे हाथ दोऊ गोड़ा उपरि लगावा अड़वाइरछा परा पसारै हयलोइ अगुली धरती राशी द्वाइष्ट नासा अग्आासन कौ गुण पच उपबाई जिनकि गाठिपर

PŪRABA BIDHI PARI PAGATHALĪ SAMPUṬA ṢOLA YEḌĪ MILĪ RĀṢE YEḌYĀSYŪ MĀHILĪ KĀNI AGŪLA DO ĀTARAI LILĀṬA DHARATI LAGĀVAI HĀTHA DOŪ GOḌĀ UPARI LAGĀVĀ AḌAVĀIRACHĀ PARĀ PASĀRAI HATHELĪ AM̐GULĪ DHARATĪ RĀṢAI DRIṢṬI NĀSĀ AGRA ĀSANA KAU GUṆA PACA UPABĀĪ JINAKI GĀṬHIPARA

AKASHIC REVELATION

SIT WITH LEGS EXTENDED. CLOSE TWO HEELS TOGETHER WHILE KEEPING TOES APART. KNEES ARE SPREAD SIDEWARD. LOWER THE BODY FORWARD TO TOUCH THE FOREHEAD ON GROUND NEAR THE HEELS. SPREAD HANDS SIDEWARD OVER KNEES AND PLACE PALMS ON GROUND. GAZE IS FIXED AT THE NOSE.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायुम् मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम् ।। १९।।रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक ।संसया कारकः ॥१९॥

TATORDHVAM̐ RECAYET VĀYUM MR̥DUNIS´VĀSA SAMYUTAM |RECAKASTVEȘA VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆA SAMŚAYA KĀRAKAH |

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्दुर्न्तरबाह्याया दृष्टौ निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताय च इयं शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या महाविदया भवति । तज्जाननेन संसारनिवृत्ति: । तत्पूजन मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

LAKṢYENDTARABĀHYĀYĀM Dr̥ṢṬAU NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀM CA IYAMŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAIJJÑĀNENA SAM SĀRANIVR̥TTIḤ | TATPŪJANAM MO KṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपीडय वायुमा कुंचयेद् बलात् ।वारं वारं यथा चोध्र्वं समायाति समीरण: ।। १०४ ।।प्राणापानौ नानाबिन्दु मूलबन्धेन चैकताम् ।गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धघिं यच्छतो नात्र संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṀ PĀRṢṆYĀ TU SAM̐PĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |VĀRAM̐ VARAM̐ YATHĀ CORDHVAṀ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAH || 104 ||PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNĀBINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |GATVĀ YOGASYA SAM̐SIDDHIṂ YACCHATO NĀTRA SAMŚAYAH || 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.

SIDDHA SAMADHI

ASANA

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHĀKA

KUMBHĀKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

MAHA-

SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT AND KEEP TOES TOGETHER, HEELS APART.

2. BRING ARMS BELOW THE SHINS, EXTEND OUT AND KEEP PALMS UP.

3. BRING FOREHEAD TO THE GROUND ABOVE THE FEET, BRINGING TOES

NEAR THE THROAT.

4. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

*VISUALIZE LORD SURYA

IN YOUR INNER SPACE*

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMĀNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

SIDDHA SAMADHI ASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Jogapradīpyaka of Jayatarama

249-252

दोऊ पगथली संपूट करें

सो ले मेढ़ आग मे धरै

अंगुल आठ आंतरौ राखै

एड़ी को ऐसें विधि दार्शै।२४९

आरणे हाथ पगा के माहीं

कोहणी सहित कलायं लाई

आंम्हा संमहा कर पुनि दोई

भूपरि राखि सुथा सोई २५०

फणा दौं आउ आगने करें

नासा को भूं उपरि धरै

पाद अंगुष्ठ कंठ लगावै

नासा अग्य दिष्टि बहारै।२५१

पवन धारणा सहित यो सांध्यां लागे समाधी

देही नूमल होय मुनी कदे न उपजे व्याधी ।।२५२

DOU PAGATHALI SAMPUṬA KARAI

SO LE MEṂṬHA ĀGA ME DHA RAI

AṃGULA ĀṬH ĀṃTARO RĀṢAI

EḌĪ KO AISA VIDHI DĀRAṢAI॥249

ĀṆE HĀTHA PAGĀ KE MĀHĪṂ

KAUHAṆĪ SAHITA KALĀYAṂ LĀI

ĀṃMHĀ SĀMMHĀ KARA PUNI DOI

BHŪPARA RĀṢI SUDHĀ SOI ॥250

PHAṆĀ DOU ĀU ĀGANE KARAIṂ

NĀSĀ KO BHŪṂ UPARI DHA RAI

PĀDA AṃGUṢṬHĀ KAṂṬHA LAGĀVAI

NĀSĀ AGYA DIṢṬI BAHĀRAI॥251

PAVANA DHĀRAṆĀ SAHITA YO SĀMDHYĀṂ LĀGE SAMĀDHĪ

DEHĪ NṬMALA HOYA MUNI KAḌE NA UPAJE VYĀDHĪ ॥252

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHILE SEATED ON GROUND, BRING SOLES OF FEET TOGETHER BY KEEPING LITTLE DISTANCE OF EIGHT DIGITS BETWEEN HEELS. INSERT HANDS THROUGH LEGS AND PLACE THEM ON TWO SIDES ON GROUND. KEEP PALMS FACING UPWARDS. BEND FORWARD TO TOUCH THE NOSE ON GROUND AND PLACE TOES AT THE THROAT. FIX THE GAZE AT THE NOSE-TIP.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Srimat Sarvajnanaottara Agama

Yoga Pada 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायुम् मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक ।

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUM MR̥DUNIS´VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTVEȘA VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆASAṂS´AYAKĀRAKA ॥19॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Mandala Brahmanopanishad 3.5

लक्ष्येणोन्तर्ब्याह्याया दृष्ट्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताया च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्जाननेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKȘYE'NTARBĀHYĀYĀM Dr̥ȘṬAUM

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀM CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJĀNAṂ MOKṢAPHALADAM ॥ 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Yoga Sikhopanishad

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यों तु संपीडिय वायुमाकुंचयेद् बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणः:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नानाबिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धिघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢAṆYĀṂ TU SAṂPĪṬIYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAM SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ:

॥ 104 ॥

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNĀBINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHIṂṂ 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.

CINNAKIPAVA ASANA

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

MAHA-

SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT AND KEEP HEELS TOGETHER, TOES APART.

2. HOLD THE FEET AND OPEN THEM UP, BRINGING SOLES TOWARDS

THE SKY, KEEPING BACK OF HANDS ON GROUND.

3. PRESS ELBOWS ONTO THE THIGHS TOWARDS THE KNEES AND GAZE

TO THE NOSE.

*VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE

SPH*

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

CINNAKIPAVA ASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

YOGA ASANAMALA SACITRA 63

दौ पगाकी येड़ी धरती मगिवा मेढ़ लगावै

पगथली महली कौर अंगूठाकी सधि सूधी जोड़ै

बारिलि कोर फना झुल्या राशै

कहण्या की माहिली सन्धी गोंडा उपरी राशै

हाथा की अंगुली पिष्ट धरती टेकै अंगूठा

अग्र छेईो धरती लगावै

अंगुल्या का अग्रा माही कानि राशै

दिरिसि नासा अगय आसण कौगुण नाग पवन

बन्ध होई

DOU PAGĀKĪ YEḌĪ DHARATĪ MAGIVĀ

MEḌHA LAGĀVAI

PAGATHALĪ MAHALĪ KAURA AmGŪṬHĀKĪ

SADHĪ SŪDHĪ JoḌAI

BĀRILI KORA PHANĀ ṢULYĀ RĀṢAI

KAHANYĀ KĪ MĀHILĪ SANDHĪ GOṆḌĀ

UPARĪ RĀṢAI

HĀTHĀ KĪ AmGULĪ PIṢṬI DHARATĪ ṬEKAI

AmGŪṬHĀ AGRA CHĪDO DHARATĪ

LAGĀVAI

AGULYĀ KĀ AGRA MĀHI KĀNĪ RĀṢAI

DRIŚI NĀSĀ AGRA ĀSAṆA KAUGUṆA

NĀGA PAVANA BANDHA HOĪ

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHILE SITTING ON GROUND, DRAW LEGS

CLOSE TO THE SEAT IN SUCH A WAY

THAT HEELS COMES TOGETHER AND TOES

APART. BEND THE ARMS AND PLACE

ELBOWS ON RESPECTIVE KNEES. KEEP THE

BACK OF HANDS AND FINGERS ON

GROUND IN SUPINE POSITION. DIRECT

GAZE AT TIP OF NOSE.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायुम् मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम् ।

रेचकस्त्रैव विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक । ॥ १९॥

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUM MR̥DUNIS'VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTVES'A VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆASAṁS'AYAKĀRAKAH ||19||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE

STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE

PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS

KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS

INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA

OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्‌बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जितां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूर्जानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKSYE'NTARBĀHYĀYĀM Dr̥STAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀM CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI |

SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ

BHAVATI | TAIJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यों तु सम्पीड्य वायुमाकुच्ययेद् बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

प्राणापानौ नानाबिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनतं ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धीघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAM PĀṢaN.YĀ TU SaM PĪḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUCYAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAM VARAM YATHĀ CORDHVAM

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAH || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNĀBINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SaMSIDDHIṂ

YACCHATO NĀTRA SaMŚAYAH || 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.

67. CARPATACOKASANA

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

UDDIYANA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

106-109

JAPA

MAHA-

SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT AND BRING SOLES OF THE FEET TOGETHER, HEELS AT PERINEUM, KNEES TO THE GROUND.

2. PLACE HANDS ON THE KNEES AND GENTLY PRESS THEM DOWN.

3. PULL THE STOMACH IN AND UP AND GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

CARPATACOKASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA

253-255

दोऊ पगथलि संपूट धरै

आंगाने कर जारे पसारै

गोडा भूषौ लगतां राषै

हाथ दोऊ गोडा परिदाषै॥२५३

आंषि माहिली उपरि ठानै

गोडा दावि भूमि परि तानै

दिष्टि त्रिकुटि राषै गोई

चरपट चौंक कहावै सोई॥२५४

अर्णचक्र संजु मुक्तनर चितवन करै जु

कोय

नैननि को नासै तिमर ज्योति नृमली होय॥

२५५

DOU PAGATHALI SAMPUṬA DHĀRAI

ĀṂGĀNE KARA JĀRE PASĀRAI

GOḌĀ BHŪṢAU LAGATĀ RĀṢAI

HĀTHA DOU GOḌĀ PARIDĀṢAI ||253

ĀṂṢI MĀHILĪ UPARI ṬHĀNAI

GOḌĀ DĀVI BHŪMI PARI TĀNAI

DIṢṬI TRIKUṬI RĀṢAI GOĪ

CARAPAṬA CAUKA KAHĀVAI SOĪ||254

ARṆACAKRA SAṂJU MUKTANARA CITAVANA KARAI JU

KOYA

NAINANI KO NĀSAI TIMARA JYOTI

NṚMALĪ HOYA||255

AKASHIC REVELATION

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Srimat Sarvajnanaottra Agama

Yoga Pada 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायुम् मृदुनिश्वास संयुक्तम्

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक ।

संसया कारकः ॥१९॥

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUM MR̥DUNIS´VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

|| 19||

RECĀKASTVEṢA VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆASAṂS´AYAKĀRAKA |

SAMS’AYA KĀRAKAH ||19||

AKASHIC REVELATION

The Sadhaka should empty the

stomach by slowly exhaling the

Prana. This mode of Pranayama is

known as Recaka which is

instrumental in driving the Prana

out.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Mandala Brahmanopanishad 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्‌ बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविदया भवति । तज्जाननेन

संसारनिवृत्तिः । तत्पूजनं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKSYE’NTARBĀHYĀBHYĀṂ DR̥SṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀBHYĀṂ CA IYAṂ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

SAMSSĀRANIVR̥TTIḤ | TATPŪJANAM MOṢAPHALADAM || 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 Śambhavi-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

UDDIYANA BANDHA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Yoga Sikhopanishad

106 - 109

कुम्भकान्ते रेचकादौ कर्तव्यस्तुड्डियानकः ।

बन्धो येन सुषुम्नायां प्राणस्तूड्डियान यातः- ॥ १०६ ॥

तस्मादूड्डियानबन्धोऽयं योगिभिः

समुदाहृतः । उड्डियानं तु सहजं गुरुणा कथितं

सदा ॥ १०७ ॥

अभ्यसेत् तदतन्द्रस्तो वृद्धोऽपि तरुणो भवेत् ।

नामोर्ध्वंवेधमदर्शयापि तं कुरीत प्रयत्नतः ।

प्राणंसममभ्यसेन्मृत्युं जयेत्येव न संशयः ॥१०८॥

KUMBHAKĀNTE RECĀKĀDAU*

KARTAVYASTUḌḌIYĀNAKAḤ |

BANDHO YENA SUṢUMNĀYĀM PRĀṆASTUḌḌIYĀNA YĀTAH- || 106 ||

TASMĀDUḌḌIYĀNABANDHO’YAṂ YOGIBHIḤ

SAMUDĀHṚTAḤ | UḌḌIYĀNAṂ TU SAHAJAM GURUṆĀ KATHITAṂ

SADĀ || 107 ||

ABHYASET TADATANDRASTO VR̥DDHO’PI TARUṆO BHAVET |

NĀMORDHVA’VEDHAMADARŚAYĀPI TĀṂ KURĪT PRAYATNATAḤ |

PRĀṆAṂSAMAMABHYASENMṚTYUṂ JAYATYEVA NA SAMŚAYAḤ ||108||

AKASHIC REVELATION

By what means a great bird soars

up without rest, that alone is the

Uddiyana and a Bandha is

prescribed therefor. One should

assume the Pascima-tana

(constricting the belly) posture

in the belly above the naval. This

will be the Uddiyana-bandha, the

lion which will quell the

elephant of death, and which

binds (the disease-generating)

phlegm which is the water of

ether having its origin at the

(thousand petalled lotus of the

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

BANDHA

UDDIYANA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

106-109

JAPA

MAHA-

SADASHIVOHAM

BHAIRAVASANA

1. SIT AND BRING SOLES OF FEET FACING TOGETHER, KNEES WIDE.

2. LIFT THE HEELS UP AND BRING THE TOES DOWN

ONTO THE GROUND.

3. KEEP THE KNEES ON THE GROUND, PULL THE STOMACH IN AND UP

AND PLACE HANDS ON KNEES IN BINDU MUDRA.

GAZE

MUDRA

BINDU MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

VERSE 3.5

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS

LORD KALABHAIRAVA*

ASANA

BHAIRAVASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

HATHARATNAVALI 3. 48

गुल्फौ सम्पीड्य चान्योन्यं

व्यूत्क्रमेणोत्तिथतं शनैः

जानुभ्यां पार्श्वगतौ हस्तौ तण्डदवत्

भैरवासनम्

GULPHAU SAMṔĪDYA CĀNYO'NYAṀ

VYUTKRAMEṆOTTHITAM ŚANAIḤ

JANVOBHYĀṂ PĀRŚVAGATAU HASTAU TAṆḌADAVAT

BHAIRAVĀSANAM

AKASHIC REVELATION

PRESS THE TWO ANKLES WITH EACH

OTHER AND RAISE THEM UP. PLACE THE

HANDS STRAIGHT BY THE SIDES OF THE

KNEES. THIS IS BHAIRAVASANA.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायुम् मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम्

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्रैव विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक ।

संस्रया कारकः ॥१९॥

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUM MR̥DUNIS´VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTVES´A VIKHYĀTAH PRĀṆASAṂŚAYAKĀRAKA |

SAMŚAYA KĀRAKAH ॥19॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE

STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE

PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS

KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS

INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA

OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्‌ बाह्याग्रया दृष्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जितायां च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविदया भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKSYE'NTARBAHYĀGRYĀM DR̥SṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀṂ CA IYAṀ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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

UDDIYANA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

106 - 109

कुम्भकान्ते रेचकादौ कर्तव्यस्तुण्डी यकः ।

बन्धो येन सुषुम्नायां प्राणस्तूड्डीयान यतः- ॥ १०६ ॥

तस्मादूड्डीयनाबन्धो योगिभिः

समुदाहतः । उड्डियानं तु सः जाम् गुरूणां कथितं

सदा ॥ १०७ ॥

अभ्यसेत् तदनन्द्रस्तु वृद्धोऽपि तरुणो भवेत् ।

नामोर्ध्वंवेधमदर्शयापि तंञो कुरीत प्रयत्नतः ।

प्राणसमासमभ्यसेन्मृत्युम् जयेत्येव न संशयः ।

॥१०८॥

KUMBHAKĀNTE RECAKĀDAU*

KARTAVYASTUṆḌĪYĀKaḥ |

BANDHO YENA SUṢUMNĀYĀṂ PRĀṆASTŪḌḌĪYĀNA YATAḥ- || 106 ||

TASMĀDŪḌḌĪYANĀBANDHO YOGIBHIḥ

SAMUDĀHṚTAḥ | UḌḌIYĀNAṂ TU SAHAJAM̐ GURŪṆĀṂ KATHITAṂ

SADĀ || 107 ||

ABHYASET TADATANDRASTU VR̥DHO'PI TARUṆO BHAVET |

NĀMORDHVAṂVEDHAMADARŚAYĀPI TĀṆCAṂ KURYĀT PRAYATNATAḥ |

PRĀṆASAMĀSAMABHYAŚENMR̥TYUM JAYATYEVA NA SAṂŚAYAḥ |

||108||

AKASHIC REVELATION

BY WHAT MEANS A GREAT BIRD SOARS

UP WITHOUT REST, THAT ALONE IS THE

UDDIYANA AND A BANDHA IS

PRESCRIBED THEREFOR. ONE SHOULD

ASSUME THE PASCIMA-TANA

(CONSTRICTING THE BELLY) POSTURE

IN THE BELLY ABOVE THE NAVAL. THIS

WILL BE THE UDDIYANA-BANDHA, THE

LION WHICH WILL QUELL THE

ELEPHANT OF DEATH, AND WHICH

BINDS (THE DISEASE-GENERATING)

PHLEGM WHICH IS THE WATER OF

ETHER HAVING ITS ORIGIN AT THE

(THOUSAND PETALLED LOTUS OF THE

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

SAMANASANA

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

MAHA-SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT WITH ONE HEEL AT THE PERINEUM.

2. LIFT AND HOLD THE OTHER FOOT, PULLING THE SOLE OF THE

FOOT ONTO THE CHEST.

3. GAZE TO THE THIRD EYE AND HOLD THE BREATH IN MULADHARA

CHAKRA.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

SAMANASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

RUDRAYAMALAM

(UTTARA-TANTRAM) 23. 71-72

समनासनमवाक्ष्ये सिद्धधमन्वादिसाधनात्।

एकपादमूरोो दत्तवा गुह्योऽन्यलिङ्गगवक्त्रके

॥२३.७१॥

एतद वीरासनं नाथ समनासनसंज्ञं कम्।

इत्याकृत्य जपेनमन्त्रं धृतवा वायुं चतुर्दले॥

२३.७२॥

SAMĀNĀSANAMAVĀKṢYE

SIDDHAMANTRĀDISĀDHANĀT|

EKAPĀDAMŪRAU DATTVĀ GUHYO'NYALIṄGAVAKTRAKE||23.71||

ETAD VĪRĀSANAM NĀTHA SAMANĀSANASAṂJÑAṂ KAM|

ITYĀKṚTYA JAPENMANTRAM DHṚTVĀ

VĀYUM CATURDALE||23.72||

AKASHIC REVELATION

(Now I TELL YOU ABOUT) SAMĀNĀSANĀ

WHICH IS THE CAUSE OF SIDDHAMANTRA

ETC.; PLACE ONE FOOT ON THE CHEST

AND THE OTHER ON (THE PLACE

BETWEEN) THE ANUS AND THE GENITALS.

THIS, O LORD! IS NAMED VĪRĀSANA OR

SAMĀNĀSANA. WHILE DOING THIS

ĀSANA (ONE MUST) CHANT THE

MANTRA HOLDING THE BREATH IN THE

CATURDALA (FOUR-LEAVED) OF THE

MŪLĀDHĀRA.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत वायुम् मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम् ।

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्वेष विख्यातः प्राणसंशयककारक ।

संसया कारकः ॥१९॥

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VAYUM MR'DUNIS'VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

|| 19||

RECAKASTVES'A VIKHYĀTAH PRĀN.A

SAMŚAYAKĀRAKAH |

SAMS'AYA KĀRAKAH ||19||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE

STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE

PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS

KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS

INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA

OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्दुर्न्तर्बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजनं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKSYENDU'NTARBAHYĀHYĀM DrSTAU

NIMESONMES'AVARJITĀYĀM CA IYAM

S'ĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI |

SARVATANTRESU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ

BHAVATI | TAIJÑĀNENA TATPUJANAM

MOKSAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-MUDRA IS

ASSUMED. THIS MAHĀ-VIDYĀ (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 PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो तु संपीड्य वायुमाकुच्ययेद् बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणः:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नादबिन्दू मूलबन्धन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAM PĀS

NYĀ TU SaM'PĪDYA VĀYUMĀKUN'CAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAM VĀRAM YATHĀ CORDHVAM

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAH :

|| 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SaMSIDDHIM

YACCHATO NĀTRA SaMS'AYAH || 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.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHĀKA

KUMBHĀKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

APANĀSANA

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

MAHA-SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT AND PLACE ONE LEG ON TOP OF THE RESPECTIVE SHOULDER.

2. RAISE OTHER FOOT UPWARDS AND STRAIGHT.

3. KEEP HANDS ON THE GROUND TO THE SIDES AND GAZE TO THE THIRD EYE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

APANASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

RUDRAYAMALAM

(UTTARA-TANTRAM) 23. 68-70

केवलं पादमेकञ्च स्कन्धे चारोप्य यत्नतः। ekapādena gagane tiṣṭhet dandavat prabho॥23.68॥ apānāsanametaddhi sarveṣāṃ pūrakaśrayam। kr̥tvā sūkṣme śīrṣpadme samāropya v āyubhiḥ॥ 23.69॥

तदा सिद्धो भवेत्‌मत्र्यः प्राणापानसमागमः। apānasnoyogena kr̥tvā yogeśwaro bhuvī॥23.70॥

KEVALAṂ PĀDAMEKAÑCA SKANDHE CĀROPYA YATNATAḤ। EKAPĀDENA GAGANE TIṢṬHET DAṆḌAVAT PRABHO॥23.68॥ APĀNĀSANAMETADDHI SARVEṢĀṂ PŪRAKAŚRAYAM। KṚTVĀ SŪKṢME ŚĪṚṢPADME SAMĀROPYA V ĀYUBHIḤ॥ 23.69॥

TADĀ SIDDHO BHAVET‌MTRYAḤ PRĀṆĀPĀNASAMĀGAMAḤ। APĀNASANOYOGENA KṚTVĀ YOGEŚWARO BHUVĪ॥23.70॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

(If you) place just one foot on the shoulder with effort and (raise) the second foot like a rod towards the sky it surely becomes apānāsana, (and if) by doing pūraka in śīrṣpadmāsana by the subtle breath then person (who is bound to die one day, anybody who is born will surely die one day) becomes a siddha. This way prāṇa and apāna become one, and by doing this apānāsana one becomes yogeśwara (supreme among yogis).

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायुम् मृदुनीश्वास संयुतम् ॥ १९॥ रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक । sams'aya kārakah ॥19॥

TATORDHVAṂ RECAYET VĀYUM MR̥DUNIŚVĀSA SAMYUTAM ॥ १९॥ RECAKASTVEṢA VIKHYĀTAḤ PRĀṆAṂSAMŚAYAKĀRAKA । SAMS'AYA KĀRAKAH ॥19॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

The sadhaka should empty the stomach by slowly exhaling the prana. This mode of prānayama is known as recaka which is instrumental in driving the prana out.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येणो‌न्तर्ब्याह्याया दृष्ट्टौ निमेषोन्मेषवर्जितायां च इयं शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन तत्पूजनं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

LAKṢYENA‌NTARBHYĀHYĀYĀ DRṢṬṬAU NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITAYĀṂ CA IYAṂ ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI । SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI । TAJJÑĀNENA TATPŪJANAM MO KṢAPHALADAM ॥ 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 śambhavī-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 PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपीड्य वायुमाकुñ्चयेद् बलात् । वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणःः ॥ १०४ ॥ प्राणापानौ नानाबिन्दु मूलबंधने चैकताम । gatvā yogasya siddhiṣu naitra na संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀRṢṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT । VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤḤ ॥ 104 ॥ PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNĀBINDU MŪLABANDHANE CAIKATĀM । GATVĀ YOGASYA SIDDHIṢU NAITRA NA 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.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

71. SAMANASANA

(REPEATED)

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

MAHA-SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT WITH ONE HEEL AT THE PERINEUM.

2. LIFT AND HOLD THE OTHER FOOT, PULLING THE SOLE OF THE

FOOT ONTO THE CHEST.

3. GAZE TO THE THIRD EYE AND HOLD THE BREATH IN MULADHARA

CHAKRA.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMĀNA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

SAMANASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

RUDRAYAMALAM

(UTTARA-TANTRAM) 23. 71-72

समनासनमावक्ष्ये सिद्धधमन्त्रादिसाधनात्।

एकपादमूरोो दत्वा गुह्योऽन्यलिङ्गगवक्त्रके

॥२३.७१॥

एतद वीरासन नाथ समनासनसंज्ञ कम।

इत्याकृत्य जपेन्मन्त्र धृत्वा वायु चतुर्दले॥

२३.७२॥

SAMĀNĀSANAMĀVAKṢYE

SIDDHAMANTRĀDISĀDHANĀT|

EKAPĀDAMŪRAU DATTVĀ

GUHYO'NYALLIṄGAVAKTRAKE||23.71||

ETAD VĪRĀSANAM NĀTHA

SAMANĀSANASAṂJṄA KAM|

ITYĀKṚTYA JAPENMANTRAM DHṚTVĀ

VĀYUM CATURDALE||23.72||

AKASHIC REVELATION

(Now I TELL YOU ABOUT) SAMĀNĀSANA

WHICH IS THE CAUSE OF SIDDHAMANTRA

ETC.; PLACE ONE FOOT ON THE CHEST

AND THE OTHER ON (THE PLACE

BETWEEN) THE ANUS AND THE GENITALS.

THIS, O LORD! IS NAMED VĪRĀSANA OR

SAMĀNĀSANA. WHILE DOING THIS

ĀSANA (ONE MUST) CHANT THE

MANTRA HOLDING THE BREATH IN THE

CATURDALA (FOUR-LEAVED) OF THE

MŪLĀDHĀRA.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्व रेचयेत वायुम मृदुनिश्वास संयुतम ।

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यात: प्राणसंशयककारक ।

संसया कारक:॥१९॥

TATORDHVAM RECAYET VĀYUM MR'DUNIS'VĀSA SAMYUTAM |

RECAKASTVES'A VIKHYĀTAH PRĀ'N.A

SAMS'AYA KĀRAKAH ||19||

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE SADHAKA SHOULD EMPTY THE

STOMACH BY SLOWLY EXHALING THE

PRANA. THIS MODE OF PRANAYAMA IS

KNOWN AS RECAKA WHICH IS

INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING THE PRANA

OUT.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्‍बाह्याभ्याया दृष्ट्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताया च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजान मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKSYE'NTAR'BĀHYĀYĀM DrṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀM CA IYAM

S'ĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI |

SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ

BHAVATI | TAIJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपीड्य वायुमाकुच्ययेद्‌ बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नानाद्बिन्दु मूलबन्धन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धीघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशय:॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAM PĀṢṆYĀ TU SAMPIḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUCYAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAM VĀRAM YATHĀ CORDHVAM

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAH || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNĀDBINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAMSIDDHIṂ

YACCHATO NĀTRA SAMŚAYAH|| 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.

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHĀKA

KUMBHĀKA PADDHATI

VERSE 72

72. APĀNĀSANA (REPEATED)

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104-105

JAPA

MAHA-SADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT AND PLACE ONE LEG ON TOP OF THE RESPECTIVE SHOULDER.

2. RAISE OTHER FOOT UPWARDS AND STRAIGHT.

3. KEEP HANDS ON THE GROUND TO THE SIDES AND GAZE TO THE THIRD EYE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

APANASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

RUDRAYAMALAM

(UTTARA-TANTRAM) 23. 68-70

केवलं पादमेकञ्च स्कन्धे चारोप्य यत्नतः।

एकपादेन गगने तिष्ठतु डण्डवत् प्रभो॥23.68॥

अपानासनमेतद्धि सर्वेषा पूरकाश्रयम्

कृत्वा सूक्ष्मे शीर्षपद्मे समारोप्य व वायुभिः॥

23.69॥

तदा सिद्धो भवेत्मृत्योः प्राणापानसमागमः।

अपानसनयोगेन कृत्वा योगेश्वरो भुवि॥23.70॥

KEVALAṀ PĀDAMEKAÑCA SKANDHE CĀROPYA YATNATAH।

EKAPĀDENA GAGANE TIṢṬHET DAṆḌAVAT PRABHO॥23.68॥

APĀNĀSANAMETADDHI SARVEṢĀM PŪRAKĀŚRAYAM

KṚTVĀ SŪKṢME ŚĪRṢAPADME SAMĀROPYA V VĀYUBHIḤ॥23.69॥

TADĀ SIDDHO BHAVETMṚTYOḤ PRĀṆĀPĀNASAṂĀGAMAḤ।

APĀNASANOYOGENA KṚTVĀ YOGEŚVARO BHUVI॥23.70॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

(If you) place just one foot on the shoulder with effort and (raise) the second foot like a rod towards the sky it surely becomes APĀNĀSANA, (and if) by doing PŪRAKA (inhalation) in ŚĪRṢPADMĀSANA by the subtle breath then person (who is bound to die one day, anybody who is born will surely die one day) becomes a siddha. This way PRĀṆA and APĀNA become one, and by doing this APĀNĀSANA one becomes YOGEŚWARA (Supreme among Yogis).

PRANAYAMA

RECAKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SRIMAT SARVAJNANOTTRA AGAMA

YOGA PADA 19

ततोऽध्वं रेचयेत् वायूं मृदुनीश्वास संयुक्तं

॥ १९॥

रेचकस्त्वेष विध्यातः प्राणसंशयकारक ।

SAMS'ĀYA KĀRAKAH॥19॥

TATORDHVAṀ RECAYET VĀYUṀ MṚDUNĪŚVĀSA SAMYUTAM

RECAKASTVEṢA VIKHYĀTAḤ PRĀṆAṂS'AṀŚAYAKĀRAKA ।

SAMS'ĀYA KĀRAKAH॥19॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

The Sadhaka should empty the stomach by slowly exhaling the Prana. This mode of Prānāyama is known as Recāka which is instrumental in driving the Prana out.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येणोन्दर्‌बार्ह्यायां दृष्ट्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जितायां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविदया भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKṢYENA'NTAR'BĀHYĀYĀṀ DṚṣṬṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀṀ CA IYAṀ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI । SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI । TAJJÑĀNENA

TAJPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM ॥ 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 Śambhavī-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 PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो तु सम्पीड्य वायुमाकूञ्चयेद् बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणः:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दु मूलबन्धन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धिघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṀ PĀṢAṆYO TU SAṀPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKŪṆCAYED BALĀT ।

VĀRAṀ VĀRAṀ YATHĀ CORDHVAṀ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ:

॥ 104 ॥

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM ।

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṀSIDDHIṀṢI YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṀŚAYAḤ ॥ 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 Nāda (intellect) and the Bindu (mind), becoming one by means of the Mula-bandha, bestow the successful accomplishment of Yoga. Herein there is no doubt.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

GOMUKHASANA

*VISUALIZE THE FACE

OF A Cow*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

1. SIT AND CROSS ONE LEG OVER THE OTHER, ALIGNING THE KNEES

AT THE CENTER OF THE BODY.

2. WITH FEET BY OPPOSITE HIPS, PLACE BOTH HANDS

ON TOP OF THE STACKED KNEES.

3. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŠAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

GOMUKHASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 3.2

सव्ये दक्षिणागुल्फं तु पृष्ठपार्श्वे नियोजयेत् |

दक्षिणेऽपि तथा सव्यं गोमुखे गोमुखं यथा ॥ २ ॥

SAVYE DAKṢIṆĀGULPHAṂ TU

PṚṢṬHAPĀRŚVE NIYOJAYET |

DAKṢIṆE'PI TATHĀ SAVYAṂ GOMUKHAṂ

GOMUKHĀṂ YATHĀ ॥ 2 ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

ONE SHOULD PLACE HIS RIGHT ANKLE OF

THE LEG ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BACK

(OF THE LEG) AND ALSO THE LEFT ANKLE

OF THE LEG ON THE RIGHT SIDE

SIMILARLY. THIS IS GO-MUKHA,

RESEMBLING THE FACE OF THE COW.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् |

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यानिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेति ॥ १३-3

॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAṂ VĀYUṂ

GṚHĪTVĀ

YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṂ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NA

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-

VAKTREṆETI ॥ 13-3

॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE

MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING

SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS

LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN)

SHOULD,EXPEL IT THROUGH THE

NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THROUGH THIRST, HUNGER

AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE,

NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्‌बाह्याभ्यां दृष्ट्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

संसारनिवृत्ति: । तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

॥

LAKṢYENTAR'BĀHYĀBHYĀṂ DṚṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀBHYĀṂ CA IYAṂ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

SAMSSĀRANIVṚTTIḤ | TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM ॥ 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाष्ण्यां तु संपीड्य वायुमा‌कु‌ञ्चयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢṆYĀṂ TU SAṂPĪḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ ॥ 104 ॥

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHAU

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.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

ANASUYASANA

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS

RISHIKA ANASUYA*

BANDHA

UDDIYANA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

106-109

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

1. FROM GOMUKHASANA POSITION, HOLD THE BIG TOES

WITH INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS.

2. RELAX SHOULDERS AND PULL THE STOMACH IN AND UP.

3. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

GAZE

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

VERSE 6.2

ASANA

ANASUYASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA

87-89

दछिन गोडो नीचों ठानै वावों ताके ऊपर आवै ।

गोडा संधि मिलावै भारी आडापद पुनि देसंधि पसारी ॥८७॥

दोऊ पदके अङ्गुष्ठ जोई दोऊ कर ते पकरे सोई ।

नामादृष्टि अचल करि रहियो अनसूया आसन यह कहिये ॥८८॥

यह आसन नित ही करै देही कचन होय

जयतराम साधन किये रोग रहै नहि कोय

॥८९

DACHINA GOḌO NĪCŌṬHĀNAI VĀVŌṀ TĀKE ŪPARA ĀNAI |

GOḌĀ SAṀDHI MILĀVAI BHĀRĪ ĀḌĀPADA PUNI DESAṀDHI PASĀRĪ ||87||

DOU PADAKE AṆGUṢṬHA JOĪ DOŪ KARĀ TE PAKARA SOĪ |

NĀSĀDṚṢṬI ACALA KARI RAHIYE ANASŪYĀ ĀSANA YAHA KAHIYE ||88||

YAHĀ ĀSANA NITA HĪ KARA DEHĪ KACANA HOYA

JAYATARĀMA SĀDHANA KIYAI ROGA RAHI NAHĪ KOYĀ ||89

AKASHIC REVELATION

PLACE LEFT KNEE ABOVE THE RIGHT KNEE SO THAT BOTH THE KNEES SHOULD TOUCH EACH OTHER. EXTEND THE LEGS AWAY FROM THE BODY. CATCH HOLD OF THE TOES WITH OPPOSITE HANDS. GAZE AT THE TIP OF THE NOSE.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यानिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेतिं ॥ १३-३

॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAM̐ VĀYUṀ GṚHĪTVĀ

YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṀ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NĀ

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-VAKTREṆETI || 13-3

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN) SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THROUGH THIRST, HUNGER AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE, WILL NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHANAM, NIVEDANA

MUDRĀḥ 6. 2

मध्यमातर्ज्जन्यनुष्टयोगे प्राण-मुद्रा ।

MADHYAMĀTARJANYAṀNUṢṬHAYOGE PRĀṆA-MUDRĀ |

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHEN THE MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER STAND NEARBY EACH OTHER (WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THE OTHER FINGERS ARE FOLDED), IT IS CALLED PRANA MUDRA.

BANDHA

UDDIYANA BANDHA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

106 - 109

कुम्भकान्ते रेचकादौ कर्तव्यस्तुडियानकः ।

बन्धो येन सुषुम्नायां प्राणस्तुडियानयात् यतः- ॥ १०६ ॥

तस्मादुद्धियानबन्धाद् योगिभिः

समुदाहृतः ।

उड्डियानं तु सहजं गुरूणां कथितं

सदा ॥ १०७ ॥

अभ्यसेत् तदतन्द्रस्तो वृद्धोऽपि

तरुणो भवेत् ।

नाभोर्ध्वबन्धविधापि तांन

कुर्यात् प्रयत्नतः ॥१०८॥

शण्माससमभ्यासेन मृत्युमत्यं न संशयः ।

ना संशयः ॥१०९॥

KUMBHAKĀNTE RECAKĀDAU*

KARTAVYASTUḌḌIYĀNAKAḥ |

BANDHO YENA SUṢUMNĀYĀṀ PRĀṆASTUḌḌIYĀNAYAT YATAḥ- || 106 ||

TASMĀDUḌḌIYĀNABANDHĀD YOGIBHIḥ

SAMUDĀHṚTAḥ |

UḌḌIYĀNAṀ TU SAHAJAṀ GURUṆĀ

KATHITAṀ

SADĀ || 107 ||

ABHYASET TADATANDRASTU VṚDDHO'PI

TARUṆO BHAVET |

NĀBHERURDHVAMADHĀŚCĀPI TĀṆAṀ

KURYĀT PRAYATNATAḥ ||108||

ṢAṆMĀSASMABHYASEN MṚTYUMTYAṀ NA SAṀŚAYAḥ |

NĀ SAṀŚAYAḥ ||109||

AKASHIC REVELATION

BY WHAT MEANS A GREAT BIRD SOARS UP WITHOUT REST, THAT ALONE IS THE UDDIYANA AND A BANDHA IS PRESCRIBED THEREFOR. ONE SHOULD ASSUME THE PAŚCIMA-TĀNA (CONSTRICTING THE BELLY) POSTURE IN THE BELLY ABOVE THE NAVAL. THIS WILL BE THE UDDIYANA-BANDHA, THE LION WHICH WILL QUELL THE ELEPHANT OF DEATH, AND WHICH BINDS (THE DISEASE-GENERATING) PHLEGM WHICH IS THE WATER OF ETHER HAVING ITS ORIGIN AT THE (THOUSAND PETALLED LOTUS OF THE

75. ANASUYASANA 2

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104-105

JAPA OM NITHYANANDOHAM

1. FROM GOMUKHASANA POSITION, INTERLACE FINGERS BEHIND THE BACK AND LEAN FORWARD AND DOWN.

2. BRING THE CHIN OVER THE KNEES AND TOUCH THE NOSE TO THE GROUND.

3. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS RISHIḰA ANASUYA

GAZE

MUDRA

PARUŚU MUDRA MUDRA VIDHANAM 10. 17

ASANA

ANASUYASANA 2

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

YOGA ASANAMALA SACITRA 45

जीमणा गोदा की स्यंधि उपरि डावा गोदा की

संधि मिलाई राषै

गोडास्यौ ले पगथल्यै लौ आडवाई सुष्ठा राषै

हाथा स्यों पगाका अगला पकडै अथावा दोऊ

हाथ पाछा नै करि काकसी करै

मुलदवार पाछै काकसी राषै

नासिका धरती लगावै द्रिष्टि नासा अग

आमन आगुन माहि आसन साम दोई करी

साथै तौ कचनमै देहदोई

JĪMAṆĀ GODĀ KĪ SYAṂDHI UPARI ḌĀVĀ GODĀ KĪ

GODĀ KĪ SAṂDHĪ MILĀĪ RĀṢAI

GOṢĀSYAU LE PAGATHALYĀ LAU ĀḌAVĀI SUṢṬHĀ RĀṢAI

HĀTHĀ SYAU PAGĀKĀ AGUṬHĀ PAKAṢĀI ATHĀVĀ DOŪ

HĀTHA PĀCHĀ NAI KARI KĀKASĪ KARAI

MŪLADVĀRA PĀCHAI KĀKASĪ RĀṢAI

NĀSIKĀ DHARATĪ LAGĀVAI DRIṢṬI NĀSĀ AG

ĀMAN ĀGUN MĀHI ĀSAN SĀM DOĪ KARĪ

SĀTHAI TAU KACANMAI DEHADOĪ

AKASHIC REVELATION

AFTER SPREADING THE FEET WIDE APART

FOLLOWED BY PLACING ONE KNEE OVER

THE OTHER, ONE IS SUPPOSED TO CATCH

HOLD OF THE HANDS OVER THE BACK.

THEN ONE SHOULD BEND THE HEAD

DOWN TO TOUCH THE NOSE TO THE

GROUND.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यनिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेति ॥ १३-३

॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAṂ VĀYUṂ GṚHĪTVĀ

YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṂ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NA

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-

VAKTREṆETI ॥ १३-३

॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE

MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING

SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS

LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN)

SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE

NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THIRST, HUNGER

AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE, WILL

NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

PARUŚU MUDRA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHANAM 10.17

तले तले तु करयो-स्तिर्यक संयोज्य

चांगुलीः ।

संहताः प्रसृताः कुर्यात मुद्रा परशु संजिता ॥

TALE TALE TU KARAYO-STIRYAK

SAMYOJYA CĀṂGULĪḤ |

SAMṆHATĀḤ PRASṚTĀḤ KURYĀT MUDRĀ PARAŚU SAMJĪNITĀ ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

FOR EVERY PART/STEP INTERLACED THE

FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS. CONTRACT

AND EXPAND THEM, NAMED AS

PARASHU MUDRA.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपीड्य वायुमाकुंचयेद

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दु मूलबन्धन

चैकेतात् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धिघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ ॥ १०४ ॥

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHIṂṂ

YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂŚAYAH ॥ १०५ ॥

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.

GARUDASANA 2

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS LORD GARUDA*

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

ŚANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Śitkari

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDHAMA

1. SIT ON THE GROUND WITH ONE HEEL PRESSED

AGAINST THE PERINEUM.

2. KEEP THE OPPOSITE FOOT ON THE GROUND IN FRONT OF THE OTHER.

3. KEEP SPINE TALL, CHEST OUT AND HANDS ON RESPECTIVE KNEES.

4. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

GARUDASANA 2

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Yoga Asanamala Sacitra 72

डावो पग मोडी येडी माहिलों गुल्फ

मुलदवार नीचै दे

बैसें जीमणी पगथली धरती टेकी गोडो ऊचो

उभो रासे

पगथली माहिली कोर डावा गोडा अरू पीडी

माहिली

कानी लगावै हाथ गोदा उपरि रासै दृशित

नासा अग्ग

आसन को गुण कहि भाति धाति जाति होइ

तथ भै

Ḍāvo PAGa Moḍī Yeḍī MāHILĀUm

GULAPHA MūLADVāRA NīCAI DE

BAISE JīMAṇī PAGATHALī DHARATī ṬEKī GOḌō ūMCaU

UBHAU RāṢAI

PAGATHALī MāHILī KORA ḌāVā GOḌā ARū Pīḍī

MāHILī

KāNī LAGāVAI HāTHA GOḌā UPARI RāṢAI DR̥ṢIṬA

NāSā AGGA

āsana kau guṇa kahi bhāti dhāti jāti hoī

TATHA BHAI

AKASHIC REVELATION

Sit on the ground. Bend the left leg and place its ankle under the anus. Then place right foot close to the side of the left knee and calf, keeping its knee vertically raised. Place hands on respective knees and direct the gaze at the tip of the nose.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Sandilyopanishad 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यानिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेति । ॥ १३-३

॥

VAKTREṇA SīTKāRAPūRVAKaṃ VāYūṃ GR̥HīTVā

YATHāŚAKTI

KUMBHAyitvā NāSāBHyāṃ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆāLASYANIdRā Nā

JāYANTE

SīTKāRAPRāṇāYāMAMāHā-

VAKTREṇETI || 13-3

||

AKASHIC REVELATION

Sucking the air through the mouth, with the Siṭkara (hissing sound), holding it in Kumbhaka as long as possible, (the yogin) should expel it through the nostrils. Therefrom thirst, hunger and sleep through indolence will not be produced.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Mandala Brahmanopanishad 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजनं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKṢYENTARBāHYAByāṃ Dr̥ṣṬAUn

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITāBhyāṃ CA IYaṃ

ŚāMBHAVī MUDRā BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYā

MAHāVIDYā BHAVATI | TAJJñāNENA

TATPūJANaṃ MOKṢAPHALADaṃ || 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 Śambhavi-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Yoga Sikhopanishad

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यों तु संपीड्य वायुं माकुंचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोध्र्वं समायाति समीरण:

प्राणापानौ नादबिन्दू

चैकेकताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṃ PāRṣṇYā TU SaṃPīḌya

VāYUMāKUñCAYED BALāT |

VāRaṃ VāRaṃ YATHā CORDHVaṃ

SAMāYāTI SAMīRAṇaḥ || 104 ||

PRāṇāPāNAU NāNDABINdū

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.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

NARADASANA

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS SAGE NARADA*

GAZE

MUDRA

PARUŚU MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

10. 17

11. SIT AND PLACE PERINEUM ON TOP OF ONE HEEL WITH TOP OF FOOT FLAT ON THE GROUND.

12. PLACE OPPOSITE FOOT ON GROUND IN FRONT OF OPPOSITE FOOT.

13. INTERLACE FINGERS BEHIND NECK, TWIST OUTSIDE OF RAISED KNEE AND GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

ĀSANA

NARADASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA

298-302

पिठिटु ज वाम पगस्थि केरी

भुपरि ताहि लगावे केरी

गोडा सुढौ फणइ जोइ

दोक्षि पामति राइ सोइ॥298

द्वहुरिया वाम पगस्थली जानो।

दोक्षि पगस्थली ता परि ठानो

उभे जोडि समताइ करे ताइ

दोफिनि गोडा उरझइ राइ॥299

इहि ठि सो जाणइ अमराइ

ता परि जीवहि सियान हि दाइ

सम्यक सत्कक तिहि विलियइ जाइ॥300

दोइ हस्तहि कंकोसि करइ

सो तं गुदि पछाडणि परे

आगाने कहुणी हंइ लइवइ

दोक्षि जिह वारे समिझइ॥301

• या आसन केरीये तं जयवरणि मिटि जाइ

नरमसि होइ वि केणिपुञ जो साधे इह भाइ ॥302

AKASHIC REVELATION

PLACE THE LEFT SOLE ON THE GROUND FOLDING IT (AT KNEE) AND BRINGING TOWARDS BACKSIDE. FOLD RIGHT LEG KEEPING KNEES STRAIGHT POINTING UPWARD AND PLACE THE RIGHT SOLE ON THE LEFT SOLE. PLACE PERINEUM ABOVE THE LEFT HEEL. GAZE SHOULD BE BETWEEN EYEBROWS. MAKE FINGER LOCK. BRING BOTH THE ELBOWS TOWARDS RIGHT SIDE OF THE RIGHT THIGH.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यनिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेतिं ॥१३-३

॥

VAKTREṇA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAM VĀYUM GṚHĪTVĀ

GṚHĪTVĀ YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀM RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NĀ

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-

VAKTREṇETI ॥ १३-३

॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN) SHOULD,EXPEL IT THROUGH THE NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THIRST, HUNGER AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLEnCE, WILL NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

PARUŚU MUDRA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHANAM 10.17

तले तले तु करयो-स्तिर्यक संयोज्य

चांगुलीः ।

संहताः प्रसृताः कुर्यात मुद्रा परशु संजिता ॥

TALE TALE TU KARAYO-STIRYAK SAMYOJYA

CĀṂGULĪḤ ।

SAṂHATĀḤ PRASṚTĀḤ KURYĀT MUDRĀ PARAŚU SAṂJNITĀ ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

FOR EVERY PART/STEP INTERLACED THE FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS. CONTRACT AND EXPAND THEM, NAMED AS PARASHU MUDRA.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाष्ण्यो तु संपीडिय वायुमाकुंचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोध्र्वं समायाति समीरणःः

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दु मूलबन्धन

चैकेतात् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धिघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀRṢṇYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌIYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT ।

VĀRAṂ VARAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAM

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤḤ

॥ १०४ ॥

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM ।

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHIṂṂ

YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂŚAYAHṄ ॥ १०५ ॥

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.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

MATSYA PITHAKA

ASANA

1. PLACE ONE FOOT ON TOP OF OPPOSITE THIGH AND WRAP RESPECTIVE

ARM AROUND THE KNEE, HOLDING ONTO OPPOSITE SHIN.

2. EXTEND OPPOSITE HAND STRAIGHT AND HOLD ONTO RESPECTIVE TOE

WITH INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER, GAZE TO THE NOSE.

VISUALIZE MATSYA, THE

FISH AVATAR OF

VISHNU*

GAZE

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

VERSE 6.2

ASANA

MATSYA PITHAKA ASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

TRISIKHI BRAHMANOPANISHAD 48

वामेन वामाङ्गुष्ठ तु गृहीतं मत्स्यपीठकम् ।

योनि वामेन संपीडय मेढ़्रादुपरि दक्षिणम् ।

॥ ४९ ॥

VĀMENA VĀMĀṆGUṢṬHAM TU GRHĪTAṂ MATSYAPĪṬHAKAM |

YONI VĀMENA saṃPĪḌYA MEḌHRĀDUPARI DAkṢIṆAM || 48 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

PLACING THE RIGHT FOOT AT THE ROOT

OF THE LEFT THIGH, WITH THE TWO

HANDS EMBRACING THE KNEES AND THE

LEFT HAND GRASPING THE LEFT BIG TOE,

IS THE MATSYA-PITHAKA POSTURE.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायुं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यानिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेतिं ॥ १३-३

॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAṂ VĀYUṂ

GRHĪTVĀ YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṂ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NA

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀMĀHĀ-

VAKTREṆETI || 13-3

॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE

MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING

SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS

LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN)

SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE

NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THROUGH

INDOLENCE, WILL

NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHANAM, NIVEDANA

MUDRĀḤ 6. 2

मध्यमातर्ज्जन्यनुष्ट्ठयोगे प्राण-मुद्रा ।

MADHYAMĀTARJANYAṁNUṢṬHAYOGE

PRĀṆA-MUDRĀ |

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHEN THE MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER

STAND NEARBY EACH OTHER (WE

SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THE OTHER

FINGERS ARE FOLDED), IT IS CALLED

PRANA MUDRA.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाष्ण्यो तु संपीडय वायुमा कुंचयेद् बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢṆYĀ TU saṃPĪḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAM

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA saṃSIDDHAU

YACCHATO NĀTRA

saṃSAYAḤ || 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.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

GOMUKHASANA

(REPEATED)

*VISUALIZE THE FACE

OF A Cow*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

1. SIT AND CROSS ONE LEG OVER THE OTHER, ALIGNING THE KNEES

AT THE CENTER OF THE BODY.

2. WITH FEET BY OPPOSITE HIPS, PLACE BOTH HANDS

ON TOP OF THE STACKED KNEES.

3. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-

UPANISHAD

VERSE 3.5

ASANA

GOMUKHASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 3.2

सव्ये दक्षिणांगुल्फं तु पृष्ठपार्श्वे नियोजयेत् |

दक्षिणेऽपि तथा सव्यं गोमुखं गोमुखं यथा ॥ २ ॥

SAVYE DAKṢIṆĀGULPHAṂ TU

PṚṢṬHAPĀRŚVE NIYOJAYET |

DAKṢIṆE'PI TATHĀ SAVYAM GOMUKHAM

GOMUKHAṂ YATHĀ || 2 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

ONE SHOULD PLACE HIS RIGHT ANKLE OF

THE LEG ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BACK

(OF THE LEG) AND ALSO THE LEFT ANKLE

OF THE LEG ON THE RIGHT SIDE

SIMILARLY. THIS IS GO-MUKHA,

RESEMBLING THE FACE OF THE COW.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नामाभ्यां रेचयेत् |

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यानिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेति ॥ १३-3

॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAṂ VĀYŪṂ

GṚHĪTVĀ YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṂ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NA

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-

VAKTREṆETI || 13-3 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE

MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING

SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS

LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN)

SHOULD,EXPEL IT THROUGH THE

NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THIRST, HUNGER

AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE,

NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्‌बाह्याभ्यां दृष्ट्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति | सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति | तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

LAKṢYENTARBĀHYĀYĀM DṚṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀM CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI |

SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ

BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJĀNAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-MUDRA IS

ASSUMED. THIS MAHĀ-VIDYA (THE

GREAT ULTIMATE SOURCE KNOWLEDGE)

IS, OF ALL THE TANTRAŚ, WHAT IS KEPT

A PROFOUND SECRET. WITH THE

EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE OF THIS, IS

ATTĀINED FREEDOM AND COMPLETION

FROM THE STATE OF WORLDLY

EXISTENCE.BY ITS WORSHIP, IS

BESTOWED THE FRUIT OF LIBERATION.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाष्ण्योस्तु संपीड्य वायुं मूलाकुंचयेद्‌ बलात् |

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणः:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नादबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकताम् |

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यचछतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAM 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

PRĀṆA AND APĀNA (VITAL AIRS), AS

ALSO THE NĀḌA (INTELLECT) AND THE

BINDU (MIND), BECOMING ONE BY

MEANS OF THE MULA-BANDHA,

BESTOW THE SUCCESSFUL

ACCOMPLISHMENT OF YOGA. HEREIN

THERE IS NO DOUBT.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Ṡitkari

BANDHA

UDDIYANA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

106-109

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

ANASUYASANA (REPEATED)

1. FROM GOMUKHASANA POSITION, HOLD THE BIG TOES WITH INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS.

2. RELAX SHOULDERS AND PULL THE STOMACH IN AND UP.

3. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS RISHIKA ANASUYA

GAZE

MUDRA

ṠAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD

VERSE 3.5

ASANA

ANASUYASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA

87-89

दछिन गोडो नीचो ठानै वावों ताके ऊपर आवै ।

गोडा संधि मिलावै भारी आडापद पुनी देसंधि पसारी ॥८७॥

दोउ पदके अड़गुष्ट जोई दोऊ कर ते पकरे सोई ।

नामाद्रिष्टि अचल करि रहियो अनसूया आसन यह कहिये ॥८८॥

यह आसन नित ही करै देही कचन होय

जयतराम साधन किये रोग रहै नहि कोय

॥८९

DACHINA GOḌO NĪCO ṬHĀNAI VĀVOM TĀKE ŪPARA

ĀNAI |

GOḌĀ SAṂDHI MILĀVAI BHĀRĪ ĀḌĀPADA PUNI DESAṂDHI PASĀRĪ ||87||

DOU PADAKE AṆGUṢṬA JOĪ DOŪ KARĀ TE PAKARAI SOĪ |

NĀMĀDRISṬI ACALA KARI RAHIYE ANASŪYĀ ĀSANA YAHA KAHIYE ||88||

YAHA ĀSANA NITA HĪ KARAI DEHĪ KACANA HOYA

JAYATARĀMA SĀDHANA KIYAI ROGA RAHAI NAHĪ KOYĀ ||89

AKASHIC REVELATION

PLACE LEFT KNEE ABOVE THE RIGHT KNEE SO THAT BOTH THE KNEES SHOULD TOUCH EACH OTHER. EXTEND THE LEGS AWAY FROM THE BODY. CATCH HOLD OF THE TOES WITH OPPOSITE HANDS. GAZE AT THE TIP OF THE NOSE.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्पिपासेलस्यनिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेतिं ॥ १३-३

॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAM̐ VĀYUṂ GR̥HĪTVĀ

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṂ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NĀ

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-VAKTREṆETI || 13-3

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN) SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THROUGH THIRST, HUNGER AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE, WILL NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHANAM, NIVEDANA

MUDRĀḤ 6. 2

मध्यमातर्ज्जन्यनुष्टयोगे प्राण-मुद्रा ।

MADHYAMĀTARJANYAṂNUṢṬHAYOGE

PRĀṆA-MUDRĀ |

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHEN THE MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER STAND NEARBY EACH OTHER (WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THE OTHER FINGERS ARE FOLDED), IT IS CALLED PRANA MUDRA.

BANDHA

UDDIYANA BANDHA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

106 - 109

कुम्भकान्ते रेचकादौ कर्तव्यस्तुडियानकः ।

बन्धी येन सुषुम्नायां प्राणस्तुड्डियानयत- ॥ १०६ ॥

तस्मादुद्धियानाबन्धो योगिभिः

समुदाहृतः ।

उड्डियानं तु सहजं गुरूणां कथितं

सदा ॥ १०७ ॥

अभ्यसेत तदतन्द्रस्तो वृद्धोऽपि तरुणो भवेत् ।

नामोर्ध्वंवेधमुद्रांपि तांञ क्रुवीत प्रयत्नतः ।

ज्ञानामृतसमभ्यासेन मृत्युम् जयत्येव न संशयः ।

॥१०८॥

KUMBHAKĀNTE RECAKĀDAU*

KARTAVYASTUḌḌIYĀNAKaḥ |

BANDHO YENA SUṢUMNĀYĀṂ

PRĀṆASTUḌḌIYĀNAYAT- || 106 ||

TASMĀDUḌḌIYĀNĀBANDHO YOGIBHIḥ

SAMUDĀHṚTAḥ |

UḌḌIYĀNAṂ TU SAHAJAM̐ GURUṆĀ

KATHITAṂ SADĀ || 107 ||

ABHYASET TADATANDRASTU VR̥DDHO'PI

TARUṆO BHAVET |

NĀBHERURDHVAMUDHRĀṂDHAŚCĀPI TĀṆAṂ

KURYĀT PRAYATNATATH |

ŚĀMṂĀSAMABHYASENMṛTYUM̐ JAYATYE'VA

NA SAMŚAYAḥ |

||108||

AKASHIC REVELATION

BY WHAT MEANS A GREAT BIRD SOARS UP WITHOUT REST, THAT ALONE IS THE UDDIYANA AND A BANDHA IS PRESCRIBED THEREFOR. ONE SHOULD ASSUME THE PAŚCIMA-TANA (CONSTRICTING THE BELLY) POSTURE IN THE BELLY ABOVE THE NAVAL. THIS WILL BE THE UDDIYANA-BANDHA, THE LION WHICH WILL QUELL THE ELEPHANT OF DEATH, AND WHICH BINDS (THE DISEASE-GENERATING) PHLEGM WHICH IS THE WATER OF ETHER HAVING ITS ORIGIN AT THE (THOUSAND PETALLED LOTUS OF THE

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

81. ANASUYASANA 2 (REPEATED)

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS

RISHIḰA ANASUYA*

GAZE

MUDRA

PARUŠU MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

10. 17

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

1. FROM GOMUKHASANA POSITION, INTERLACE FINGERS BEHIND THE

BACK AND LEAN FORWARD AND DOWN.

2. BRING THE CHIN OVER THE KNEES AND

TOUCH THE NOSE TO THE GROUND.

3. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

ASANA

ANASUYASANA 2

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

YOGA ASANAMALA SACITRA 45

जीमणा गोदा की स्यंधि उपरि डावा गोदा की

संधि मिलाई राषै

गोडास्यों ले पगथल्यै लौ आडवाई सुथा रषै

हाथा स्यों पगाका अगला पकडे अथावा दोऊ

हाथ पाछा नै करि काकसी करै

मुलदवार पाछै काकसी राषै

नोसिका धरती लगावै दिष्टि नासा अग

आमन आगुंण यहु आसन साम दोई करी

साथै तौ कचनमै देहदोई

JĪMAṆĀ GODĀ KĪ SYAṂDHI UPARI ḌĀVĀ GODĀ KĪ

GODĀ KĪ SAṂDHI MILĀI RĀṢAI

GOṢĀSYAU LE PAGATHALYĀ LAU ĀḌAVĀI SUTHĀ RĀṢAI

HĀTHĀ SYAU PAGĀKĀ AGUṬHĀ PAKAṢĀI ATHĀVĀ DOŪ

HĀTHA PĀCHĀ NAI KARI KĀKASĪ KARAI

MŪLADVĀRA PĀCHAI KĀKASĪ RĀṢAI

NĀSIKĀ DHARATĪ LAGĀVAI DRIṢṬI NĀSĀ AG

ĀMAN ĀGUṆA YAHU ĀSANA SĀM DOI KARĪ

SĀTHAI TAU KACANMAI DEHADOI

AKASHIC REVELATION

AFTER SPREADING THE FEET WIDE APART

FOLLOWED BY PLACING ONE KNEE OVER

THE OTHER, ONE IS SUPPOSED TO CATCH

HOLD OF THE HANDS OVER THE BACK.

THEN ONE SHOULD BEND THE HEAD

DOWN TO TOUCH THE NOSE TO THE

GROUND.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यानिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणैति ॥ १३-३

॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAṂ VĀYUṂ GṚHĪTVĀ

YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṂ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NA

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-

VAKTREṆAITI ॥ १३-३

॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE

MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING

SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS

LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN)

SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE

NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THIRST, HUNGER

AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE, WILL

NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

PARUŚU MUDRA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHANAM 10.17

तले तले तु करयो-स्तिर्यक संयोज्य

चांगुलीः ।

सहिता: प्रसृताः कुर्यात मुद्रा परशु संजिता ॥

TALE TALE TU KARAYO-STIRYAK

SAMYOJY

CĀṂGULĪH |

SAMHITĀḤ: PRASṚTĀḤ KURYĀT MUDRĀ PARAŚU SAMJĪTĀ ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

FOR EVERY PART/STEP INTERLACED THE

FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS, CONTRACT

AND EXPAND THEM, NAMED AS

PARASHU MUDRA.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो तु संपीडिय वायुमा कुच्येद

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोध्र्व समायाति समीरण:

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दु मूलबन्धन

चैकेतात् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धिघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢAṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪṬIYA VĀYUMĀKUCYED

BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVA

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ || १०4 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHIṂṂ

YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂŚAYAH || १०५ ||

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.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

ŚANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

GARUDASANA 2

(REPEATED)

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS LORD GARUDA*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDHAM

1. SIT ON THE GROUND WITH ONE HEEL PRESSED

AGAINST THE PERINEUM.

2. KEEP THE OPPOSITE FOOT ON THE GROUND IN FRONT OF THE OTHER.

3. KEEP SPINE TALL, CHEST OUT AND HANDS ON RESPECTIVE KNEES.

4. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

GARUDASANA 2

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

YOGA ASANAMALA SACITRA 72

डावो पग मोडी येडी माहिलों गुल्फ

मुलदवार नीचै दे

बैसें जीमणि पगथलि धरती टेकी गोडो ऊचो

उभो रासि

पगथलि माहिली कोर डावा गोड़ा अरू पीडी

माहिली

कानि लगावै हाथ गोड़ा उपरि रासि दृरिश्टि

नासा अग्ग

आसन को गुण कहि भति धाति जाति होइ

तथ भै

ḌĀVO PAGA MOḌI YEḌĪ MĀHILAUM

GULAPHA MŪLADVĀRA NĪCAI DE

BAISE JĪMAṆĪ PAGATHALI DHARATĪ ṬEKĪ

GOṬO ŪṂCAU UBHAU RĀṢAI

PAGATHALĪ MĀHILĪ KORA ḌĀVĀ GOṬĀ

ARŪ PĪḌĪ MĀHILĪ

KĀNĪ LAGĀVAI HĀTHA GOṬĀ UPARI

RĀṢAI DRỊSIṬI NĀSĀ AGRA

ĀSANA KAU GUṆA KAHI BHĀTI DHĀTA

JĀTI HOĪ TATHA BHAI

AKASHIC REVELATION

SIT ON THE GROUND. BEND THE LEFT LEG AND PLACE ITS ANKLE UNDER THE ANUS. THEN PLACE RIGHT FOOT CLOSE TO THE SIDE OF THE LEFT KNEE AND CALF, KEEPING ITS KNEE VERTICALLY RAISED. PLACE HANDS ON RESPECTIVE KNEES AND DIRECT THE GAZE AT THE TIP OF THE NOSE.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कृम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यानिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेतिं ॥ १३-३

॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAṂ VĀYUṂ GRHĪTVĀ

YATHĀŚAKTI

KRUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṂ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTRUṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NĀ

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-

VAKTREṆETI || 13-3

||

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN) SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THIRST, HUNGER AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE WILL NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्‍बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKṢYENTRARBĀHYĀBHYĀṂ DRṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀBHYĀṂ CA IYAṂ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यों तु संपीडिय वायुमा‌कु‌ञ्चयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चो‌र्द्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

प्राणापानौ नानाद्बिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAM PĀṢAṆYO TU SAṂPĪḌIYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED

BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ

|| 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNĀDBINDU MŪLABANDHENA

CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHAU YACCHATO NĀTRA

SAṂŚAYAH || 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.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Śitkari

NARADASANA

(REPEATED)

VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS SAGE NARADA

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

1. SIT AND PLACE PERINEUM ON TOP OF ONE HEEL WITH TOP OF FOOT FLAT ON THE GROUND.

2. PLACE OPPOSITE FOOT ON GROUND IN FRONT OF OPPOSITE FOOT.

3. INTERLACE FINGERS BEHIND NECK, TWIST OUTSIDE OF RAISED KNEE AND GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

GAZE

MUDRA

PARUŚU MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

10. 17

ĀSANA

NARADASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA

298-302

पिठिटु जं वाम पगस्थि केरी

भूपरि तहिं लगावे केरी

गोड सुधुरं फणइ जंइ

दक्षि पादंत्ति राखइ सोइ ॥२९८

द्वहुरिया वाम पदाथली जाणो

दक्षि पदस्थली ता परि ठाणो

उभे जोडि समतां करइ

दोफणि गोडउ उरध्व रहइ ॥२९९

इहइ एक्कु सो जाणियइ

ता परि जोअणि सिय्थाण हि देइ

सयमकु दिट्ठि त्रिकुट्टि करइ

दोउ हत्था कम्पिसइ करइ

सो ले गुडि पछाणेहि धरइ

आगणे कहिअइ द्वि दइयवि

सो ले गुडि पधाइअइ परे

दिट्ठि जइ वारे समिलइ ॥३०१

-या आसन के किये ते जयरामणि मिटि जाय

नरम हउवे केणिपुण्टु जो साधे इह भयारि ॥३०२

पिट्ठि जु वामे पगथालि केरी

भुपरि तहि लघावे फेरी

गोडा सुधाउ फधाउ हआ जइ

दच्छि पसति रासइ सोइ ॥२९८

ययहुरायउ वाम पगथालि जाणो

दच्छि पगथलि ता परि ठाणो

उभाइ जोडि समतां करइ

दच्छिना गोडउ उभाउ रासइ ॥२९९

दिट्ठि सो तम जाणइ

कछु याहु अउचि रासइ अज्ज

ता परि जोणि सथान हि दासइ

सयमका दिट्ठि त्रिकुटि रासइ ॥३००

दोउ हत्था कम्पिसइ करइ

सो ले गुडि पछाणेहि धरइ

आगणे कहिआइ द्वि दिवाइ

द्वाइ असणि वारा समिअइ ॥३०१

या असण के किये ते जयरामणि मिटि जाइ

णियम हउवे केणिपुण्ट जो साधे तेह भयारि ॥३०२

AKASHIC REVELATION

PLACE THE LEFT SOLE ON THE GROUND FOLDING IT (AT KNEE) AND BRINGING TOWARDS BACKSIDE. FOLD RIGHT LEG KEEPING KNEES STRAIGHT POINTING UPWARD AND PLACE THE RIGHT SOLE ON THE LEFT SOLE. PLACE PERINEUM ABOVE THE LEFT HEEL. GAZE SHOULD BE BETWEEN EYEBROWS. MAKE FINGER LOCK. BRING BOTH THE ELBOWS TOWARDS RIGHT SIDE OF THE RIGHT THIGH.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यनिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेति ॥ १३-३

॥

VAKTREṇA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAM̐ VĀYUM̐ GṚHĪTVĀ

GṚHĪTVĀ YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀM̐ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NĀ

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-

VAKTREṇETI || 13-3

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN) SHOULD EXṖEL IT THROUGH THE NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THIRST, HUNGER AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLELCE, WILL NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

PARUŚU MUDRA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHANAM 10.17

तले तले तु करयो-स्तिर्यक संयोज्य

चांगुलीः ।

सहता: प्रसृत: कुय्यात मुद्रा परशु संजिता ॥

TALE TALE TU KARAYO-STIRYAK SAMYOJYA

CĀṂGULĪḤ |

SAṂHATĀḤ: PRASṚTĀḤ: KURYĀT MUDRĀ PARASU SAṂJNITĀ ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

FOR EVERY PART/STEP INTERLACED THE FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS. CONTRACT AND EXPAND THEM, NAMED AS PARASHU MUDRA.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपीड्य वायुमाकुंचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोध्र्वं समायाति समीरणः:

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAM̐ PĀRṢṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAM̐ VĀRAM̐ YATHĀ CORDHVAM̐

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHIM̐

YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂŚAYAH || 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.

MATSYAPITHAKA

ASANA

(REPEATED)

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Śitkari

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

1. PLACE ONE FOOT ON TOP OF OPPOSITE THIGH AND WRAP RESPECTIVE

ARM AROUND THE KNEE, HOLDING ONTO OPPOSITE SHIN.

2. EXTEND OPPOSITE HAND STRAIGHT AND HOLD ONTO RESPECTIVE TOE

WITH INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER, GAZE TO THE NOSE.

*VISUALIZE MATSYA, THE

FISH AVATAR OF

VISHNU*

GAZE

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

VERSE 6.2

ASANA

MATSYA PITHAKA ASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

TRISIKHI BRAHMANOPANISHAD 48

वामेन वामाङ्गुष्ठ तु गृहीतं मत्स्यपीठकम् ।

योनि वामेन संपीडय मेढ़्रादुपरि दक्षिणम् ।

॥ ४९ ॥

VĀMENA VĀMĀṄGUṢṬHAM TU GRHĪTAṀ MATSYAPĪṬHAKAM |

YONI VĀMENA saṁPĪḌYA MEḌHRĀDUPARI DAkṢIṆAM || 48 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

PLACING THE RIGHT FOOT AT THE ROOT

OF THE LEFT THIGH, WITH THE TWO

HANDS EMBRACING THE KNEES AND THE

LEFT HAND GRASPING THE LEFT BIG TOE,

IS THE MATSYA-PITHAKA POSTURE.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायुं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यानिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेतिं ॥ १३-3

॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAṀ VĀYUṀ GRHĪTVĀ

YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṀ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTRṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NA JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-VAKTREṆETI || 13-3

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE

MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING

SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS

LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN)

SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE

NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THROUGH

INDOLENCE, WILL

NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṄA - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHANAM, NIVEDANA

MUDRĀḤ 6. 2

मध्यमातर्ज्जन्यनुष्ठयोगे प्राण-मुद्रा ।

MADHYAMĀTARJANYAMṄNUṢṬHAYOGE

PRĀṆA-MUDRĀ |

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHEN THE MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER

STAND NEARBY EACH OTHER (WE

SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THE OTHER

FINGERS ARE FOLDED), IT IS CALLED

PRANA MUDRA.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपिडय वायुमाक़ु॔चयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धीघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṀ PĀṢṆYĀ TU saṁPĪḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṀ VĀRAṀ YATHĀ CORDHVAM

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA saṁSIDDHIṀ

YACCHATO NĀTRA saṁŚAYAH || 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.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Śitkari

MATSYENDRASANA

*VISUALIZE

MATSYENDRANATH, THE

GREAT SAGE, AND

MASTER OF HATHA

YOGA*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

1. PLACE ONE FOOT ON TOP OF OPPOSITE THIGH.

2. PLACE OPPOSITE FOOT ON GROUND ON FAR SIDE

OF OPPOSITE THIGH.

3. TWIST AND BRING ELBOW OUTSIDE OF RAISED KNEE.

4. KEEP RAISED ARM BY THE NECK, TURN HEAD BACK AND GAZE TO

THIRD EYE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

MATSYENDRASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

GHERANDA SAMHITA 2. 22-23

उदारं पश्चिमाभासं कृत्वा तिष्ठति यत्नतः

नमाग्रं वामपादे हि दक्षजानूपरि न्यसेत्॥

२२

तत्र याम्यं कूर्परं च याम्ये करे च वक्त्रकं

भुवोर्मध्ये गतां दृष्टिं पीठं मत्स्येन्द्रमुच्यते

॥२३

UDARĀṆI PASCIMĀBHĀSĀṂ KṚTVĀ TIṢṬHATI YATNATAṂ

NAMRĀṆGAM VĀMAPĀDAM HI DAKṢAJĀNŪPARI NYASET||22

TATRA YĀMYAṂ KŪRPARAṂ CA YĀMYE KARE CA VAKTRAKAṂ

BHUVORMADHYE GATĀṂ DRṢṬIṂ PĪṬHAṂ MATSYENDRAMUCHYATE||23

AKASHIC REVELATION

KEEPING THE STOMACH AT EASE LIKE

THE BACK, BEND THE LEFT LEG AND

PLACE IT WITH CARE ON THE RIGHT

THIGH, PUT THE ELBOW OF THE RIGHT

HAND ON TOP OF IT AND THE FACE ON

THE PALM OF RIGHT HAND. ASSUMING

THIS POSTURE, FIX THE GAZE IN THE

MIDDLE OF THE FOREHEAD. THIS IS

MASTYENDRA POSTURE.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्क्षालनिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेति ॥ १३-3

॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAṂ VĀYUṂ GṚHĪTVĀ

YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṂ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NA

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-

VAKTREṆETI || 13-3

॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE

MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING

SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS

LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN)

SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE

NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THIRST, HUNGER

AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE WILL

NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्दुर्न्तरबाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जितायां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKSYE'NTARNAIRBĀHYĀYĀM DRṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITAYĀM CA IYAṂ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI |

SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOṢAPHALADAM || 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 ṢAMBHAVI-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 PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो तु सम्पीड्य वायुं मूलाधारचोदयेत्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नादबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢAṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUṂ MŪLĀDHĀRACODAYED

BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆA:

|| 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHAU YACCHATO NĀTRA

SAMŚAYA: || 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.

KUBASANA

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDHAM

1. PLACE ONE FOOT ON TOP OF OPPOSITE THIGH.

2. PLACE OPPOSITE FOOT ON GROUND ON FAR SIDE

OF OPPOSITE THIGH.

3. TWIST AND BRING ELBOW OUTSIDE OF RAISED KNEE AND EXTEND

HAND DOWN TO THE FOOT, KEEPING OPPOSITE HAND AT RESPECTIVE

EAR, TURN HEAD BACK AND GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS A CAMEL*

GAZE

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

VERSE 6.2

ASANA

KUBASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Yoga Asanamala Sacitra 92

आसण कौ गुण झोलो जायै

Āsaṇa Kau Guṇa Jholō Jāyai

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHILE SITTING ON THE GROUND, PLACE LEFT FOOT ON THE BASE OF THE RIGHT THIGH. THEN BEND RIGHT KNEE AND PLACE THE RIGHT FOOT NEAR THE LEFT KNEE IN FLOOR. NOW PASS THE LEFT HAND OUTSIDE THE RIGHT KNEE WAND WITH LEFT HAND CATCH HOLD OF THE RIGHT TOES. PLACE RIGHT THUMB AT THE LEFT EAR AND EXTEND THE OTHER FINGERS.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा यथाशक्ति कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् । तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यनिद्रा न जायन्ते सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेति ॥ १३-३ ॥

VAKTREṇA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAM̐ VĀYUM̐ GṚHĪTVĀ YATHĀŚAKTI KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀM̐ RECAYET | TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NĀ JĀYANTE SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-VAKTREṇETI || 13-3 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN) SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THROUGH THIRST, HUNGER AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE, WILL NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Mudra Vidhanam, Nivedana Mudrāḥ 6.2

मध्यमातर्ज्जन्येनुष्ठयोगे प्राण-मुद्रा ।

MADHYAMĀTARJANYAM̐NUṢṬHAYOGE PRĀṆA-MUDRĀ |

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHEN THE MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER STAND NEARBY EACH OTHER (WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THE OTHER FINGERS ARE FOLDED), IT IS CALLED PRANA MUDRA.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यों तु संपीड्य वायुमा कुंचयेद् बलात् । वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण: प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन चैकेनताम् । गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢAṇYō TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀ KUÑCAYED BALĀT | VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṇaḥ PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM | GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHOU YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂŚAYAḥ || 105 ||

गुदं पार्श्वाभ्यां तु संपीड्य वायुमाकुंचयेद् बलात् । वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीराण: ॥ १०४ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀRŚVĀbhyāṁ TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT | VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRĀṇaḥ || 104 ||

प्राणापानौ नान्दाबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन चैकताम् । गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धिं यच्छतो नात्र संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDĀBINDŪ 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.

87

MATSYENDRASANA 2

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

1. PLACE ONE FOOT ON TOP OF OPPOSITE THIGH.

2. PLACE OPPOSITE FOOT ON GROUND ON FAR SIDE

OF OPPOSITE THIGH.

3. TWIST AND BRING ELBOW OUTSIDE OF RAISED KNEE AND EXTEND

HAND DOWN TO THE FOOT, KEEPING OPPOSITE HAND ON GROUND

BEHIND, TURN HEAD BACK AND GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

*VISUALIZE

MATSYENDRANATH, THE

GREAT SAGE, AND

MASTER OF HATHA

YOGA*

GAZE

MUDRA

ŠAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

MATSYENDRASANA 2

ĀPTA PRAMĀṄA - आप्त प्रमाण

HATHAPRADIPIKA OF SVATMARAMA 2.12-13

मत्स्येन्द्रपीठं जठरप्रदीप्तिं

प्रचण्डरुग्मण्डलखण्डनास्त्रम्॥

अभ्यासतः कुण्डलिनीप्रबोधं दण्डस्थितरत्वं

हि ददाति पुंसाम्॥

MATSYENDRAPIṄṬHAṁ JAṬHARAPRADĪPTIṁ

PRACANDAṚUGMAṆḌALAKHANḌANĀSTRAM

॥ ABHYĀSATAḰ KUṆḌALĪNĪPRABODHAṀ

DANḌASTHIRATVAṀ HI DADĀTI PUṂSĀM

॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE RIGHT FOOT IS PLACED AT THE ROOT OF THE LEFT THIGH. THE LEFT LEG IS PLACED BY THE SIDE OF THE RIGHT KNEE. HOLDING LEFT LEG BY THE RIGHT HAND AND TWISTING THE BODY, ONE REMAINS STEADY.

THIS POSTURE COMES FROM SRI MATSYENDRANATH. PRACTICE OF MATSYENDRASANA STIMULATES THE DIGESTIVE FUNCTION AND WORKS LIKE A WEAPON TO DESTROY HOSTS OF SEVERE AILMENTS. IT ALSO HELPS AROUSAL OF THE KUNDALINI AND GIVES STABILITY TO THE SPINE.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यनिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेतिं ॥ १३-३

॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAṀ VĀYŪṀ GṚHĪTVĀ

YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṀ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NA

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-

VAKTREṆETI || 13-3

॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN) SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THROUGH THIRST, HUNGER AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE, WILL NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्दुर्न्तरबाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

संसारनिवृत्तिः । तत्पूजर्नं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

॥

LAKṢYENDUṄNTRABĀHYĀBHYĀṀ DṚṣṬAU

NIRMESOṄMEṢVARJITĀBHYĀṀ CA IYAṀ

ŚĀṄBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

SAMṢĀRANIVṚTTIḤ | TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 PRAMĀṄA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो तु सम्पीड्य वायुमाकुच्ययेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नानाबिन्दु मूलबन्धन

चैकेकतम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṀ PĀṢAṆYO TU SAṀPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUṄCAYED

BALĀT |

VĀRAṀ VĀRAṀ YATHĀ CORDHVAṀ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ

|| 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNĀBINDU MŪLABANDHENA

CAIKEKATAM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṀSIDDHAU YACCHATO NĀTRA

SAMŚAYAḤ || 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.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

MATSYENDRASANA

(REPEATED)

*VISUALIZE

MATSYENDRANATH, THE

GREAT SAGE, AND

MASTER OF HATHA

YOGA*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

1. PLACE ONE FOOT ON TOP OF OPPOSITE THIGH.

2. PLACE OPPOSITE FOOT ON GROUND ON FAR SIDE

OF OPPOSITE THIGH.

3. TWIST AND BRING ELBOW OUTSIDE OF RAISED KNEE.

4. KEEP RAISED ARM BY THE NECK, TURN HEAD BACK AND GAZE TO

THIRD EYE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

MATSYENDRASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

GHERANDA SAMHITA 2. 22-23

उदारं पश्चिमाभासं कृत्वा तिष्ठति यत्नतः

नमाग्रं वामपादे हि दक्षजानूपरि न्यसेत्॥

२२

तत्र याम्यं कूर्पेन च याम्ये करे च वक्त्रकं

भुवोर्मध्ये गतां दृष्टिं पीठं मत्स्येन्द्रमुच्यते

॥२३

UDARĀṆI PASCIMĀBHĀSĀṂ ṚṬVĀ

TIṢṬHATI YATNATĀṂ

NAMRĀṆGAM VĀMAPĀDAM HI

DAKṢAJĀNŪPARI NYASET||22

TATRA YĀMYAṂ KŪRPAREṆ CA YĀMYE CARE CA VAKTRAKAṂ

BHUVORMADHYE GATĀṂ DRṢṬIM PIṬHAṂ MATSYENDRAMUCYATE||23

AKASHIC REVELATION

KEEPING THE STOMACH AT EASE LIKE

THE BACK, BEND THE LEFT LEG AND

PLACE IT WITH CARE ON THE RIGHT

THIGH, PUT THE ELBOW OF THE RIGHT

HAND ON TOP OF IT AND THE FACE ON

THE PALM OF RIGHT HAND. ASSUMING

THIS POSTURE, FIX THE GAZE IN THE

MIDDLE OF THE FOREHEAD. THIS IS

MASTYENDRA POSTURE.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायुं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्क्षालनास्यनिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेति ॥ १३-३

॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAṂ VĀYUṂ GṚHĪTVĀ

YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṂ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NA

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-

VAKTREṆETI || 13-3

॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE

MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING

SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS

LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN)

SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE

NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THIRST, HUNGER

AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE, WILL

NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्दुर्न्तरबाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKṢYENDU'NTARABĀHYĀYĀM DRṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀM CA IYAṂ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI |

SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ

BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ṢAMBHAVI-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 PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो तु सम्पीड्य वायुमा कुंचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोधर्वं समायाति समीरण:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नादबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢAṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CODHṚVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḥ

|| 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHA conclusive

YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂŚAYAH || 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.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

KUBASANA

(REPEATED)

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS A CAMEL*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

1. PLACE ONE FOOT ON TOP OF OPPOSITE THIGH.

2. PLACE OPPOSITE FOOT ON GROUND ON FAR SIDE

OF OPPOSITE THIGH.

3. TWIST AND BRING ELBOW OUTSIDE OF RAISED KNEE AND EXTEND

HAND DOWN TO THE FOOT, KEEPING OPPOSITE HAND AT RESPECTIVE

EAR, TURN HEAD BACK AND GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

GAZE

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

VERSE 6.2

ASANA

KUBASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

YOGA ASANAMALA SACITRA 92

आसण कौ गुण झोलो जायै

Āsaṇa Kau Guṇa Jholō Jāyai

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHILE SITTING ON THE GROUND, PLACE LEFT FOOT ON THE BASE OF THE RIGHT THIGH. THEN BEND RIGHT KNEE AND PLACE THE RIGHT FOOT NEAR THE LEFT KNEE IN FLOOR. NOW PASS THE LEFT HAND OUTSIDE THE RIGHT KNEE WAND WITH LEFT HAND CATCH HOLD OF THE RIGHT TOES. PLACE RIGHT THUMB AT THE LEFT EAR AND EXTEND THE OTHER FINGERS.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा यथाशक्ति कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् । तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालास्यनिद्रा न जायन्ते सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेति ॥ १३-३ ॥

VAKTREṇA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAM VĀYuṃ GṚHĪTVĀ YATHĀŚAKTI KuṃBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀbhyāṃ RECAYET | TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ N JĀYANTE SĪTKĀRPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA- VAKTREṇETI || 13-3 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE MOUTH, WITH THE SĪTKARA (HISSING SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KuṃBHAKA AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN) SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THROUGH THIRST, HUNGER AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE, WILL NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHANAM, NIVEDANA MUDRĀḥ 6.2

मध्येमा‌र्तजन्येनानुष्ठययोगे प्राण-मुद्रा ।

MADHYAMĀTARJANYAṃAṆUṢṬHAYOGE PRĀṆA-MUDRĀ |

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHEN THE MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER STAND NEARBY EACH OTHER (WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THE OTHER FINGERS ARE FOLDED), IT IS CALLED PRANA MUDRA.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104 - 105

गुदं पाश्र्वयोः तु संपीड्य वायुमा‌कु‌ञ्चयेद् बलात् । वारं वारं यथा चोध्र्वं समायाति समीरणः: प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दु मूलबन्धेन चैकताम् । गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ नात्र संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṃ PĀRṢVAYOḥ TU SAṃPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKuñCAYED BALĀT | VĀRAṃ VĀRAṃ YATHĀ CORDHVAṃ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḥ: PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM | GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṃSIDDHA conclusiveU NĀTRA SAṃŚAYAḥ || 105 ||

गुदं पार्श्वयोस्तु संपीड्य वायुमाकुञ्चयेद् बलात् । वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणः: प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन चैकताम् । गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धिघि यच्छतो नात्र संशयः ॥ १०४ ॥

GUDAṃ PĀRŚVOYOSTU SAṃPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT | VĀRAṃ VĀRAṃ YATHĀ CORDHVAṃ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḥ: PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM | GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṃSIDDHIṃI YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṃŚAYAḥ || 104 ||

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.

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM | GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṃSIDDHIṃI YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṃŚAYĀḥ || 105 ||

MATSYENDRASANA 2

(REPEATED)

*VISUALIZE

MATSYENDRANATH, THE

GREAT SAGE, AND

MASTER OF HATHA

YOGA*

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI KUMBHAKA

SANDILYOPNAISHAD 6. 13

Šitkari

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

1. PLACE ONE FOOT ON TOP OF OPPOSITE THIGH.

2. PLACE OPPOSITE FOOT ON GROUND ON FAR SIDE

OF OPPOSITE THIGH.

3. TWIST AND BRING ELBOW OUTSIDE OF RAISED KNEE AND EXTEND

HAND DOWN TO THE FOOT, KEEPING OPPOSITE HAND ON GROUND

BEHIND, TURN HEAD BACK AND GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

GAZE

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDOHAM

MUDRA

ŠAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

MATSYENDRASANA 2

ĀPTA PRAMĀṇA - आप्त प्रमाण

HATHAPRADIPIKA OF SVATMARAMA 2.12-13

मत्स्येन्द्रपीठं जठरप्रदीप्तिं

प्रचण्डरुग्मण्डलखण्डनास्त्रं॥

अभ्यासतः कुण्डलिनीप्रबोधं दण्डस्थितरत्वं

हि ददाति पुंसाम्॥

MATSYENDRAPIṭHAṃ JAṭHARAPRADĪPTIṃ

PRACANDAṚUGMAṇḌALAKHAṇḌANĀSTRAM ॥

ABHYĀSATAḥ KUṇḌALĪNĪPRABODHAṃ

DANḌASTHIRATVAṃ HI DADĀTI PUṃSĀM

॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE RIGHT FOOT IS PLACED AT THE ROOT OF THE LEFT THIGH. THE LEFT LEG IS PLACED BY THE SIDE OF THE RIGHT KNEE. HOLDING LEFT LEG BY THE RIGHT HAND AND TWISTING THE BODY, ONE REMAINS STEADY.

THIS POSTURE COMES FROM SRI MATSYENDRANATH. PRACTICE OF MATSYENDRASANA STIMULATES THE DIGESTIVE FUNCTION AND WORKS LIKE A WEAPON TO DESTROY HOSTS OF SEVERE AILMENTS. IT ALSO HELPS AROUSAL OF THE KUNDALINI AND GIVES STABILITY TO THE SPINE.

PRANAYAMA

SITKARI PRANAYAMA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṇA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SANDILYOPANISHAD 6. 1-3

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायुं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नामशब्दां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यनिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह- वक्त्रेणेतिं ॥ १३-३

॥

VAKTREṇA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAṃ VĀYUM GṚHĪTVĀ

YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀMĀŚABDHYĀṃ RECAYET |

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṇĀLASYANIDRĀ NA

JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRPRĀṇĀYĀMAMĀHA-

VAKTREṇETI ॥ 13-3

॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

SUCKING THE AIR THROUGH THE MOUTH, WITH THE SİTKARA (HISSING SOUND), HOLDING IT IN KUMBHAKA AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, (THE YOGIN) SHOULD EXPEL IT THROUGH THE NOSTRILS. THEREFROM THROUGH THIRST, HUNGER AND SLEEP THROUGH INDOLENCE, WILL NOT BE PRODUCED.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṇA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्तर्ब्याह्याया दृष्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जितायां च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविदया भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

संसारनिवृत्तिः । तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

॥

LAKṢYENTARBHYĀHYĀYĀM DRṣṭAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITAYĀM CA IYAṃ

ŚĀṃBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJñĀNENA

SAṂSĀRANIVṚTTIḥ | TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM ॥ 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु सम्पीड्य वायुमाकुच्ययेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणः:

प्राणापानौ नानाद्बिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṃ PĀṢAṇYĀ TU SAṃPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUṆCYAYED

BALĀT |

VĀRAṃ VĀRAṃ YATHĀ CORDHVAṃ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṇAḥ:

PRĀṇĀPĀNAU NĀNĀDBINDU MŪLABANDHENA

CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṃSIDDHAU YACCHATĀ NĀTRA

SAMŚAYAH ॥ 105 ॥

GUDAM PĀRṢṇYĀ TU SAṃPĪḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUṆCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṃ VĀRAṃ YATHĀ CORDHVAṃ

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṇAḥ ॥ 104 ॥

PRĀṇĀPĀNAU NĀNĀDBINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṃSIDDHIṃ

YACCHATĀ NĀTRA SAṃŚAYAH ॥ 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.

PRANAYAMA

SITALI KUMBHAKA

HATHATATVA KAUMUDI 10. 18

Šitali

BANDHA

MAHAMUDRA BANDHA

SHIVA SAMHITA

VERSE 4. 16-17

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA

MAHASADASHIVOHAM

PADMASANA

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS

LORD SHIVA*

GAZE

MUDRA

ŠAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

1. SIT AND PLACE FEET ON TOP OF OPPOSITE THIGHS.

2. PLACE PALMS ON RESPECTIVE KNEES.

3. ENGAGE ALL THREE BANDHAS AND GAZE TO NOSE.

ASANA

PADMASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA CUDAMANYUPANISHAD

1. 4-5

आासनं द्विविधं प्रोक्तं पद्मं वज्रासनं तथा ।। ४ ।।

ऊर्ध्वोरुपरि चेदधते उभे पादतले यथा । पद्मासनं भवेदेतत् सर्वपापप्रणाशनम् ॥ ५ ॥

ĀSANAM DVIVIDHAM PROKTAM PADMAṀ VAJRĀSANAM TATHĀ ॥ 4 ॥

ŪRDHVORUPARI CEDDHATTE UBHE PĀDATALA YATHĀ | PADMĀSANAM BHEVEDETAT SARVAPĀPAPRAṄĀŚANAM ॥ 5 ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

POSTURES ARE SAID TO BE OF TWO KINDS: THE PADMASANA AND THE VAJRASANA. WHEN ONE PLACES THE SOLES OF HIS FEET OVER THE TWO THIGHS (CROSSWISE, THE RIGHT SOLE OVER THE LEFT THIGH AND THE LEFT SOLE OVER THE RIGHT THIGH), THIS BECOMES THE PADMA POSTURE, WHICH DESTROYS ALL SIN.

PRANAYAMA

SITALI KUMBHAKA

APTA PRAMANA

HATHATATVAKAUMADI 10. 16

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायुं गृहीत्वा यथाशक्ति कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् । तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यनिद्रा न जायन्ते सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह - वक्त्रेणति ॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAM VĀYUM GṚHĪTVĀ YATHĀŚAKTI KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀM RECAYET | TENA KṢUTTRṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NA JĀYANTE SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHA-VAKTREṆATI ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

ONE DRAWS THE TONGUE OUT TO PRESS THEM AGAINST THE TEETH AND TAKES THE AIR IN. THEN HE SLOWLY LEAVES THE AIR OUT THROUGH THE ROOF OF NOSE AS BEFORE TILL HE FEELS THE SENSATION AT THE TIP OF THE HAIR AND NAJILS.

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येणो॑नतरबाह्याया दृष्ट्टौ निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताया च इयं शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या महाविदया भवति । तज्जाननेन संसारनिवृत्ति: । तत्पूजनं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

LAKṢYE'NTARABĀHYĀYĀM DRṢṬAU NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀM CA IYAṀ ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA SAṀSĀRANIVṚTTIḤ | TATPŪJANAM MOṢAPHALADAM ॥ 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 ṢAMBHAVI-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

MAHAMUDRA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

DHYANABINDUPANISAD 91 - 93

शोधनं मलजालानां घटनं चन्दनसूर्ययो: । ९१ ।। सवां शोषणं संयोज्य महामुद्राभिधीयते । वक्षोऽन्तरस्थनाभिपीडा सुरतिं योनेश्च वामाङ्घ्रिहस्ताभ्यामुदाहरनं प्रविततं पाद तथा दाक्षिणं ।। ९२ ।।

आपूर्य श्वासनं कुक्षिगलं बध्वा शनै रेचयेदेश पातकनाशिनो नन्तु महामुद्रा नृणां प्रोच्यते । ९३ ।।

SODHANAM MALAJĀLĀNĀM GHAṬANAM CANDANASŪRYAYO: । 91 ॥

CANDRASŪRYAYOHAM SAMYOJYA MAHĀMUDRĀBHIDHĪYATE ॥ 92 ॥

VAKṢO'NTARASTHANĀBHIPĪḌĀ SURATIṀ YONEŚCA VĀMĀṆGHRHASTĀBHYĀMUDĀHARANAM PRAVITATAM PĀDATHĀ DĀKṢIṆAM |

ĀPŪRYA ŚVASANAM KUKṢIGALAM BADHVĀ ŚANAI RECA YEDESA PĀTAKANĀŚINO NANṬU MAHĀMUDRĀ NṚṆĀM PROCYATE । 93 ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

THE CLEANSING (WITH THE PRANAYAMA) OF THE HEAPS OF IMPURITIES (IN THE NADIS), THE BRINGING ABOUT OF THE UNION BETWEEN THE MOON AND THE SUN, THE COMPLETE DRYING UP OF THE BODILY FLUIDS, RASAS (VAATA, PITTA AND KAPHA), IS KNOWN AS THE MAHĀMUDRĀ. WITH THE CHIN LAID ON THE CHEST, PRESSING THE ABYSS OF THE GENITALS WITH THE LEFT FOOT, HOLDING WITH THE TWO HANDS THE OUTSTRETCHED RIGHT LEG, FILLING WITH BREATH THE PAIR OF BELLIES AND HOLDING IT UP, ONE SHOULD SLOWLY EXHALE IT. THIS INDEED IS SAID TO BE THE SIN-DESTROYING MAHA-MUDRA FOR MEN.

PADMASANA 2

PRANAYAMA

SITALI KUMBHAKA

HATHATATVA KAUMUDI 10.18

Śitali

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA

MAHASADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT AND PLACE FEET ON TOP OF OPPOSITE THIGHS.

2. CROSS ARMS AND HOLD ONTO TOES WITH INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS.

3. GAZE TO NOSE.

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS

GODDESS PARVATI,

CONSORT OF SHIVA*

GAZE

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

VERSE 6.2

ASANA

PADMASANA 2

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

SHIVA SAMHITA 3. 88-89

उतानो चरणौ कृत्वा ऊरुसन्धौ प्रयत्नतः ।

ऊरुमध्ये तथोत्तानौ पाणी कृत्वा तु तादृशी ॥

नासाग्रे विन्नयसेदृष्टिं दन्तामूलेऽथ जिह्वया ।

उत्तोल्य चिबुकं वक्ष उत्थाप्य पवनं शनैः ।

यथाशक्त्या समाकृष्य पूरयेदूदरं शनैः ।

यथा शक्त्यैव पश्चात् रेचयेद्विओरधृतम् ॥ ८८ ॥

इदं पद्मासनं प्रोक्तं सर्वव्याधिविनाशनम् ।

दुर्लभं येन केनापि धीमता लभ्यते परम् ॥ ८९ ॥

UTTĀNĀU CARANĀU KRATVĀ ŪRŪSAMSTHAU

PRAYATNATAT ।

ŪRUMADHYE TATHOTTĀNĀU PĀṆĪ KRATVĀ TU TĀṂŚAU ।।

NĀSĀGRE VINYASEDṚṢṬIṂ DANTAMŪLE'THA JIHVAYĀ ।

UTTOLYA CIBUKAṂ VAKṢA UTTḤĀPYA PAVANAṂ

ŚANAIH ।।

YATHĀŚAKTYĀ SAMAḰRṢYA PŪRAYEDŪDARAṂ ŚANAIH ।

YATHĀ ŚAKTYAIVA PAŚCĀT RECHAYEDVIO'RAdhṛTAM ॥ 88 ॥

IDAM PADMASANAṂ PROKTAṂ SARVAVYĀDHIVINĀŚANAM ।

DURLABHAṂ YENA KENĀPI DHĪMATĀ LABHYATE PARAM ॥ 89 ॥

ŚANAIH ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

I NOW DESCRIBE THE PADMASANA

WHICH WARDS OFF (OR CURES) ALL

DISEASES: HAVING CROSSED THE LEGS,

CAREFULLY PLACE THE FEET ON THE

OPPOSITE THIGHS (I.E. THE LEFT FOOT ON

THE RIGHT THIGH, AND VICE VERSA);

CROSS BOTH THE HANDS AND PLACE

THEM SIMILARLY ON THE THIGHS; FIX

THE SIGHT ON THE TIP OF THE NOSE;

PRESSING THE TONGUE AGAINST THE

ROOT OF THE TEETH, (THE CHIN SHOULD

BE ELEVATED, THE CHEST EXPANDED)

THEN DRAW THE AIR SLOWLY, FILL THE

CHEST WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT, AND

EXPEL IT SLOWLY, IN AN UNOBSTRUCTED

STREAM. IT CANNOT BE PRACTICED BY

EVERYBODY; ONLY THE WISE ATTAINS

SUCCESS IN IT.

PRANAYAMA

SITALI KUMBHAKA

APTA PRAMANA

HATHATATVAKAUMUDI 10. 16

वक्त्रेण सीत्कारपूर्वकं वायूं गृहीत्वा

यथाशक्ति

कुम्भयित्वा नासाभ्यां रेचयेत् ।

तेन क्षुत्तृष्णालस्यानिद्रा न जायन्ते

सीत्कारप्राणायाममाह - वक्त्रेणैति ॥

VAKTREṆA SĪTKĀRAPŪRVAKAṂ VĀYUṂ GRHĪTVĀ

YATHĀŚAKTI

KUMBHAYITVĀ NĀSĀBHYĀṂ RECAYET ।

TENA KṢUTTṚṢṆĀLASYANIDRĀ NA JĀYANTE

SĪTKĀRAPRĀṆĀYĀMAMĀHĀ-

VAKTREṆAITI ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

ONE DRAWS THE TONGUE OUT TO PRESS

THEM AGAINST THE TEETH AND TAKES

THE AIR IN. THEN HE SLOWLY LEAVES

THE AIR OUT THROUGH THE ROOF OF

NOSE AS BEFORE TILL HE FEELS THE

SENSATION AT THE TIP OF THE HAIR

AND NAJILS.

MUDRA

PRANA MUDRA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHANAM, NIVEDANA

MUDRĀḤ 6. 2

मध्येमार्त्जन्येनुष्ठयोगे प्राण-मुद्रा ।

MADHYAMĀTARJANYAMṚṢṬHAYOGE

PRĀṆA-MUDRĀ ।

AKASHIC REVELATION

WHEN THE MIDDLE AND INDEX FINGER

STAND NEARBY EACH OTHER (WE

SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THE OTHER

FINGERS ARE FOLDED), IT IS CALLED

PRANA MUDRA.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाश्यंयो तु सम्पीड्य वायुमाकुच्ययेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणः:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दु मूलबन्धन

चैकेकतम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀRṢṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT ।

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ ॥ 104 ॥

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM ।

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHA conclusive

YACCHATO NĀTRA SAṂŚAYAH ॥ 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.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF

RAGHUVIRA VERSE 104

Sahaja

KUKKUTASANA

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA

MAHASADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT AND PLACE FEET ON TOP OF OPPOSITE THIGHS.

2. PLACE PALMS ON THE GROUND BETWEEN THE TWO THIGHS AND

LIFT THE BODY UP.

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS A ROOSTER*

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMĀNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

KUKKUTASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

TRISIKHI BRAHMANOPANISHAD 41

पद्मासनं सुसंस्थाप्य नानूर्वोरन्तरे करौं | निवेश्य भूमावतिष्ठेद्व्योमस्थ: कु्कुटासनः ॥ ४१ ॥

PADMĀSANAm SUSAmSTHĀPYA NĀNŪRVORANTARE KARAU | NIVÉŚYA BHŪMĀVĀTIṢṬHEDVYOMASTHAH KUKKUṬĀSANAḤ ॥ 41 ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

HAVING WELL ESTABLISHED THE PADMĀSANA, HE WHO IS FIRMLY GROUNDED ON THE EARTH (WITH HIS BODY) SUSPENDED IN MID-AIR, HIS TWO HANDS INSERTED IN THE INTER-SPACE BETWEEN THE KNEES AND THE THIGHS, ASSUMES THE KUKKUṬASANA (COCK-POSTURE).

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF RAGHUVIRA 104

नोभ्यं-आरेᳫ समकॢुय कुण्डअलयᳵह पा᳚श्वयोᳫह | कॢुपेत गच्छता ति᳒िहतᴀ श्वस-धा᳚रणᴀं न बलᴀद्-यदा᳚ | अनि᳒िᳫᳶ सहजᴀ कुम्भᳶ प्रोक्‍तᴀᳫ श्री-कॢत्तिवᴀससᴀ᳚ ॥ १०४ ॥

NOBHYĀM-ĀRaṃ SAMÁKṛṢYA KUṇḌALAYĀḥ PĀRŚVAYOḥ | KṢIPET GACCHATĀ TIṢṬHATĀ ŚVASADHĀRAṆĀṃ NA BALĀD-YADĀ | ANIŚIṢaṃ SAHAJAḥ KUMBHaḥ PROKTĀḥ ŚRI-KṚTTIVĀSASĀ ॥ 104 ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

INHALING PRANA THROUGH THE NOSE AND CARRYING IT ALONG THE KUNDALI, ONE SHOULD HOLD IT COMFORTABLY OFF AND ON. THIS IS SAHAJA-KUMBHAKA NARRATED BY SRI-KṚTTIVASA (SHIVA).

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्ये॑न्तर्‌बाह्यया᳚ दृष्टौ निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताया᳚ च इयᳫ | शा᳚म्भवी मुद्रᴀ भवति | सर्वतन्त्रे᳚षु गोप्यᴀ महᴀविद्यᴀ भवति | तज्ज्ञानेन संसारनिवृत्ति᳚: | तत्पूर्जनᴀᳫ मोक्षफलदᴀ᳚ᳶ ॥ ५ ॥

LAKSYE'NTAR-BĀHYAYĀṃ DRṣṬAU NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITAYĀṃ CA IYAm | ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAIJÑĀNENA SAM SĀRANIVṚTTIḥ | TATPŪJANAm MOKṢAPHALADam ॥ 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 ṢĀMBHAVI-MUDRA IS ASSUMED. THIS MAHĀ-VIDYA (THE GREAT ULTIMATE SOURCE KNOWLEDGE) IS, OF ALL THE TANTRAŚ, 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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104 - 105

गुदᴀᳫ पा᳚ष्ण्यो᳚ तु संपी᳚डय वायुमा᳒ुᳶचये᳚द् बलᴀत् | वा᳚रᴀᳫ वा᳚रᴀᳫ यथा चो᳒᳷वᴀ᳚ समायाति समीरणᴀ: ॥ १०४ ॥ प्रा᳚णापानौ नान्दबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन चैकतᴀ᳚ᳶ | गत्वᴀ योगस्य संसिद्धि᳚घि᳚ यच्‍छतो ना᳚त्र स᳚ᳶशयᴀ: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṃ PĀṢṆYĀ TU SaṃPĪḍYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT | VĀRaṃ VĀRaṃ YATHĀ CORDHVaṃ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḥ ॥ 104 ॥ PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀṃ | 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.

BADDHAKEKKI ASANA

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF RAGHUVIRA VERSE 104

Sahaja

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA MAHASADASHIVOHAM

1. SIT AND PLACE FEET ON TOP OF OPPOSITE THIGHS.

2. RISE UP ONTO THE KNEES AND PLACE PALMS ON GROUND, FINGERS POINTING TOWARDS THE PERINEUM.

3. KEEP ELBOWS TOGETHER AND PRESS AGAINST THE NAVAL, THEN LEAN FORWARD, FIND BALANCE AND EXTEND KNEES UP OFF GROUND.

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

BADDHAKEKKI ASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Hatharatnavali 3. 42-45

धरामवष्टभ्य करदवयेन तत्कूपरि

स्थापितनाभिपाशर्व

उच्चासनो दण्डवद्थितः: खे

मयुरमेतत्प्रवदन्ति पीठम् ॥४२

मयूर पद्मकं कुर्वीत बद्धकेकिति कध्यते

४५

DHARĀMAVĀṢṬABHYA KARADAVAYENA TATKŪPARI

STHĀPITANĀBHIPĀŚARVA

UCCĀSANO DAṆḌAVADUTTHITAḤ KHE

MAYŪRAMETATPRAVADANTI PĪṬHAM ||42

MAYŪRAṂ PADMAKAṂ KURYĀT BADDHAKEKĪTI KATHYATE ||45

AKASHIC REVELATION

PLACE BOTH THE PALMS ON THE

GROUND. PLACE BOTH ELBOWS ON THE

SIDE OF THE NAVEL. STAND ON THE

HANDS LIFTING BODY IN AIR WITH LEGS

IN PADMASANA. MAYURA IS CALLED

BADDHAKEKI.

'Technique consists of Mayurasana

with Padmasana.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

Āpta Pramana - आप्त प्रमाण

Kumbhaka Paddhati of

Raghuvira 104

नोभ्यंआं-Raṁ समकृष्य

कुण्डालयāḥ पaरुउदयoḥ

कṣिपेत गच्छतā तिṣ्ठatā देवस-

धारेणāṁ न बलāद्-यदā

अनिड.āṁ सहजा कुम्भो

प्रोक्तāḥ शRि-Kṛttivāsasā

||

NOBHYĀṂ-RAṂ SAMĀKṚṢYA

KUṆḌALAYĀḥ PĀRŚVAYOḥ

KṢIPET GACCHATĀ TIṢṬHATĀ DEVA-

DHĀRĀṆĀṂ NA BALĀD-YADĀ

ANIḌ.ĀṂ SAHAJAḤ KUMBHAḥ

PROKTĀḥ ŚRI-KṚTTIVĀSASĀ

AKASHIC REVELATION

Inhaling prana through the

nose and carrying it along the

kundali, one should hold it

comfortably off and on. This is

sahaja-kumbhaka narrated by Sri-

Krttivasa (Shiva).

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVI MUDRA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Mandala Brahmanopanishad 3.5

लक्ष्येदन्तर्बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निमेषोनमेषवर्जितां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्जाननेन

संसारनिवृत्ति: । तत्पूजनं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

||

LAKṢYEDNANTARBĀHYĀBHYĀṂ DṚṢṬAU

NIMEṢONAMEṢAVARJITĀṂ CA IYAṂ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJĀNANENA

SAṂSĀRANIVṚTTIḥ | TATPŪJANĀṂ MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 Ṣambhavi-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Yoga Sikhopanishad

104 - 105

गुदं पaष्ण्यो तु संपीडिय वायुमाRुCयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोRध्वं समायाति समीरण:

|| १०४ ||

प्रāणापानौ नानदबिन्दू मूलबन्धन

चैकेताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धीघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌIYA VĀYUMĀKUṆḌAYED

BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḥ

|| 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU 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.

MAYURASANA

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF

RAGHUVIRA VERSE 104

Sahaja

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS A PEACOCK*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA

MAHASADASHIVOHAM

1. WHILE ON KNEES, PLACE PALMS ON GROUND, FINGERS POINTING TOWARDS THE PERINEUM.

2. KEEP ELBOWS TOGETHER AND PRESS AGAINST THE NAVAL, THEN LEAN FORWARD, FIND BALANCE AND EXTEND LEGS UP OFF GROUND.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMĀNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

MAYURASANA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

RUDRAYAMALAM (UTTARA-TANTRAM)

23. 91-92

अथ वक्ष्ये महादेव मयूरासनमुत्तमम्‌। भुजौ

निपात्य हस्तौ दवौ कूर्परोपरि देहकम्‌॥

२३.९१॥

कूर्परोपरिसंस्थाप्य सर्वदेहं स्थिराश्रयः। केवलं

हस्तयुगलं निपात्य भुवि सुस्थितः॥ २३.९२॥

ATHA VAKṢYE MAHĀDEVA MAYŪRĀSANAMUTTAMAM|

BHŪMAU NIPĀTYA HASTAU DVAU KŪRPAROPARI DEHAKAM||23.91||

KŪRPAROPARISAMSTHĀPYA SARVADEHAṀ STHIRĀŚRAYAḤ|

KEVALAṀ HASTAYUGALAṀ NIPĀTYA BHUVI SUSTHIRAḤ||23.92||

AKASHIC REVELATION

O MAHĀDEVA! NOW I SHALL TALK

ABOUT THE SUPREME MAYURĀSANA;

PLACE BOTH THE HANDS ON THE FLOOR

AND REST THE BODY ON BOTH THE

ELBOWS. (23.91) REST THE ENTIRE BODY

ON THE ELBOWS AT THE ABDOMEN,

PLACING ONLY BOTH THE HANDS ON

THE FLOOR, BE PROPERLY STILL.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

ĀPTA PRAMANA - आप्त प्रमाण

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF

RAGHUVIRA 104

नोभ्यं-अन्तं समकृष्य

कुञ्चालयः पार्श्वयोः

क्षिपेत् गच्छता तिष्ठता देव-

धारणां न बलात्-यदात्

अनित्यं सहजं कुम्भं

प्रोक्तः। डरि-कृत्तिवाससः

NOBHYĀM-ARAM SAMAKṚṢYA

KUÑCALAYāḥ PĀRŚVAYOḥ

KṢIPET GACCHATĀ TIṢṬHATĀ ŚVASA-

DHĀRAṆĀṀ NA BALĀD-YADĀ

ANITYAṀ SAHAJAṀ KUMBHĀ

PROKTāḥ ŚRI-KṚTTIVĀSASĀ

AKASHIC REVELATION

INHALING PRANA THROUGH THE

NOSE AND CARRYING IT ALONG THE

KUNDALI, ONE SHOULD HOLD IT

COMFORTABLY OFF AND ON. THIS IS

SAHAJA-KUMBHAKA NARRATED BY SRI-

KRTTIVASA (SHIVA).

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येणोन्तर्बहिभ्याया दृष्टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जिताया च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्जाननेन

संसारनिवृत्तिः । तत्पूजर्न मोक्षफलदम्‌ ॥ ५

॥

LAKṢYEṆONTRARBAHIBHYĀYĀM DrṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀM CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI |

SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ

BHAVATI | TAIJÑĀNENA SAMSSĀRANIVṚTTIḤ |

TATPŪJANAM MOṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-MUDRA IS

ASSUMED. THIS MAHĀ-VIDYA (THE

GREAT ULTIMATE SOURCE KNOWLEDGE)

IS, OF ALL THE TANTRA, 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 PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु संपिड्य वायुं मूलकुच्येद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणःः

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नानदबिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनतं ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धीघि यच्छता नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥.

GUDAṀ PĀṢṆYĀ TU SAMPIḌYA VĀYUṀMĀLAKUṆCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṀ VĀRAṀ YATHĀ CORDHVAṀ

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀṀ |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAMṢIDDHIṀṂ

YACCHATO NĀTRA SAMṢAYĀḤ || 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.

MAKARASANA

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF

RAGHUVIRA VERSE 104

Sahaja

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA

MAHASADASHIVOHAM

1. LAY DOWN ON STOMACH WITH FEET POINTING OUTWARDS AND

FOREHEAD ON MAT.

2. INTERLACE FINGERS BEHIND NECK AND HOLD.

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS A CROCODILE*

GAZE

MUDRA

PARUŚU MUDRA

MUDRA VIDHANAM

10. 17

ASANA

MAKARASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

GHERANDA SAMHITA 2.40

अध्यास्यः शेते हृदय निधाय

भूमौ च पादौ च प्रसार्यमाणौ

सिरश्च धृत्वा करडणयुग्मे

देहाग्निकार्त मकरासन तत् ॥३९

ADHYĀSYAḤ ŚETE HṚDAYAṀ NIDHĀYA

BHŪMAU CA PĀDAU CA

PRASĀRYAMĀṆAU

SIRASCA DHŪTVĀ KARADaṆḌAYUGME

DEHĀGNIKĀRAṀ MAKARĀSANAM TAT II 39

AKASHIC REVELATION

LIE DOWN ON THE GROUND FACE DOWNWARDS, CHEST TOUCHING THE EARTH, THE TWO LEGS BEING STRETCHED: CATCH THE HEAD WITH TWO ARMS. THIS IS MAKARASANA. THE INCREASER OF THE BODILY HEAT.

HAVING HELD THE HEAD WITH THE TWO ARMS, ONE LIES DOWN ON THE GROUND FACING DOWNWARDS, CHEST TOUCHING THE GROUND, TWO LEGS SPREAD APART. THIS POSTURE IS CALLED THE MAKARASANA - THE CROCODILE POSTURE - THE INCREASER OF BODILY HEAT.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF RAGHUVIRA 104

नोभ्येᳫम्-आरेᳫम् समकृत्स्य

कुंडालयाᳫह पार्श्वयोᳫह

क᳷िपेत गच्छताᳫ ति᳷्ठताᳫ देवस-

धारणᴀम् न बलाद्-यदाᳫ

अनिडᳵम् सहजो कुम्भो

प्रोक्ताᳫ ह᳿ि-क᳷्तिवाससाᳫ

NOBHYĀM-ĀRAᳫM SAMĀKṚTSYA

KUṇḌALAYĀᳫH PĀRŚVAYOᳫH

KṢIPET GACCHATĀᳫ TIṢṬHATĀᳫ ŚVASA-

DHĀRĀṇam NA BALĀD-YADĀᳫ

ANIḌᳵam SAHAJAm KUMBHAᳫH

PROKTĀᳫ ṢRI-KṚTTIVĀSASĀᳫ

AKASHIC REVELATION

INHALING PRANA THROUGH THE NOSE AND CARRYING IT ALONG THE KUNDALI, ONE SHOULD HOLD IT COMFORTABLY OFF AND ON. THIS IS SAHAJA-KUMBHAKA NARRATED BY SRI-KṚTTIVASA (SHIVA).

MUDRA

PARAŚU MUDRA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

MUDRA VIDHĀNAM 10.17

तले तले तु करयो-स्तिर्यक संयोज्य

चांगुलीᳫ |

सहताᳫ: प्रसृतᳫ: कु᳷्यात मुद्रा परशु संजिता ॥

TALE TALE TU KARAYO-STIRYAK SAMYOJYA

CĀṂGULĪᳫ |

SAMHATĀᳫ: PRASṚTĀᳫ: KURYĀT MUDRĀ PARAŚU SAMJNITĀ II

AKASHIC REVELATION

FOR EVERY PART/STEP INTERLACED THE FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS, CONTRACT AND EXPAND THEM, NAMED AS PARASHU MUDRA.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104 - 105

गुदᳫ पा᳷ण्याᳫ तु संपीᳵिय वायुमा᳷ᳶचयेद्

बलात् |

वारᳫ वारᳫ यथा चो᳷ᳵवᳶ समायाति समीरण:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू मूलबन्धन

चैकेतम् |

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धि᳭घि यच्छतो नात्र

सं᳷य: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAᳫ PĀṢṆYĀᳫ TU SAṂPĪḌIYA VĀYUMĀKUṄCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAᳫ VĀRAᳫ YATHĀ CORDHVAM SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATAM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHIṄHI 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.

SALABHASANA

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF RAGHUVIRA VERSE 104

Sahaja

VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS A LOCUST

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA MAHASADASHIVOHAM

1. LAY DOWN ON STOMACH AND PLACE HANDS ON GROUND BESIDE CHEST.

2. RAISE THE LEGS UP BRINGING THIGHS OFF THE GROUND.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

SALABHASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Gheranda Samhita 2, 38

अध्यास्य: शते करयुग्मवक्षो भूमिमवष्टभ्य

करयोस्तलाभ्याम् |

पादौ च शून्ये च वितस्ति चोर्ध्वं वदन्ति

पीठ शलभं मुनीन्द्रा: || ३८ ||

ADHYĀSYAḥ ŚETE KARAYUGMAVAKṢO BHŪMIMAVAṢṬABHYA

KARAYOSTALĀbhyām |

PĀDAU CA ŚŪNYE CA VITASTI CORDHVAṁ

VADANTI PĪṬHAṁ ŚALABHAṁ MUNĪNDRĀḥ || 38 ||

AKASHIC REVELATION

LIE ON THE GROUND FACE DOWNWARDS,

PLACE BOTH HANDS ON THE CHEST, THE

PALMS TOUCHING THE GROUND AND

RAISE THE LEGS IN THE AIR ONE CUBIT

HIGH. THIS POSTURE IS CALLED THE

SALABHASANA.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

Āpta Pramana - आप्त प्रमाण

Kumbhaka Paddhati of

Raghuvira 104

नोभ्येऽम्-आरे᳚म् समकॢुय

कुञ्चअलयाह् परॄुयॊह्

कॢुपेत् गच्छता᳚ तिसॢहतॆ᳚ डवस-

धारेऽण᳚म् न बलॆ᳚द्-यदॆ᳚

अनिदॢ᳚म् सहजो कुम्भ॒

प्रोक्त॥᳚ डदि-क्रॢतिव᳚सॆ᳚

NOBHYĀM-ĀRaṁ SAMAKṚṢYA

KUṆḌALAYĀḥ PĀRŚVAYOḥ

KṢIPET GACCHATĀ TIṢṬHATĀ ŚVASĀ-

DHĀRĀṆAṁ NA BALĀD-YADĀ

ANISAM SAHAJAṁ KUMBHAḰ

PROKTAḥ ŚRI-KṚTTIVĀSASĀ

AKASHIC REVELATION

INHALING PRANA THROUGH THE

NOSE AND CARRYING IT ALONG THE

KUNDALI, ONE SHOULD HOLD IT

COMFORTABLY OFF AND ON. THIS IS

SAHAJA-KUMBHAKA NARRATED BY SRI-

KRTTIVASA (SHIVA).

IS, OF ALL THE TANTRAṢ, WHAT IS KEPT

A PROFOUND SECRET. WITH THE

EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE OF THIS, IS

ATTĀINED FREEDOM AND COMPLETION

FROM THE STATE OF WORLDLY

EXISTENCE.BY ITS WORSHIP, IS

BESTOWED THE FRUIT OF LIBERATION.

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVI MUDRA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Mandala Brahmanopanishad 3.5

लक्ष्ये᳚न्दॢतर्बॆ᳚ह्याया᳚ र॒ष्टॊ᳚

निर्मेऽषॊन्मेऽषवजिॢताया᳚ च इ॒य᳚

शा᳚म्भवी मु᳚द्रा भवॢति | स᳚र्वॢतॢन्रे᳚षु गॊप्या

महाविद्या भवॢति | तॢज्जॆ᳚ने᳚न

संसा᳚रॆ᳚निवॢृ᳚त॒ि᳚ᳬ | तॢत्पू᳚जा᳚न॒ मॊ᳚क्षॢफल᳚द॒म् || ५ ||

LAKṢYE'NTARBĀHYĀYĀṁ DRṢṬĀṁ

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀṁ CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

SAṀSĀRANIVṚTTIḥ | TATPŪJĀNAṀ MOKṢAPHALADAM || 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 ṢAMBHAVI-MUDRA IS

ASSUMED. THIS MAHĀ-VIDYA (THE

GREAT ULTIMATE SOURCE KNOWLEDGE)

IS, OF ALL THE TANTRAṢ, WHAT IS KEPT

A PROFOUND SECRET. WITH THE

EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE OF THIS, IS

ATTĀINED FREEDOM AND COMPLETION

FROM THE STATE OF WORLDLY

EXISTENCE.BY ITS WORSHIP, IS

BESTOWED THE FRUIT OF LIBERATION.

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Yoga Sikhopanishad

104 - 105

गुद᳚ पा᳚ण्यॊ᳚ तु संपी᳚ड॒य वायु᳚मा᳚कु᳚ञ्चयेद्

बलॆ᳚त् |

वा᳚र᳚ᳬ वा᳚र᳚ य᳚था चो᳚र्ध्व᳚ समा᳚या᳚ति समी᳚रा᳚ण᳚ᳬ || १०४ ||

प्रा᳚णापानौ ना᳚नॆ᳚दि᳚ᳶदू᳚

मूलब᳚न्धे᳚न चॆ᳚कॢत॒म् |

गॢत्वा᳚ यॊगॆ᳚स्य संसिद्धी᳚घ᳚ᳬ यॆ᳚चॢछ᳚तॊ ना᳚त्र सं᳚श॒य᳚ᳬ || १०५ ||

GUDAM PĀṢṆYĀ TU SaṁPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṀ VĀRAṀ YATHĀ CORDHVAṀ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRĀṆAḥ || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDUṄ

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATAM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SaṁSIDDHIṀ YACCHATO NĀTRA SaṁŚAYAḥ || 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.

USTRASANA

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF RAGHUVIRA VERSE 104

Sahaja

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA MAHASADASHIVOHAM

1. LAY DOWN ON STOMACH AND BRING HANDS TO THE FEET.

2. PULL THE FEET DOWN TOWARDS THE GROUND OUTSIDE OF THE HIPS.

VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS A CAMEL

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

USTRASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Gheranda Samhita 2. 40

अध्यास्यः शेते पदयुगमव्यस्तं

पृष्ठे निधायापि धृतं कराभ्याम्

आकुंचयेत् सम्यगुदरास्यगाढ-

मुष्ट्रांच पीठं योगिनो वदन्ति ॥४०

ADHYĀSYAḤ ŚETE PADAYUGAMAVYASTAṂ

PR̥ṢṬHE NIDHĀYĀPI DHṚTAṂ KARĀBHYĀM

ĀKUNCAYET SAMYAGUDARĀSYAGĀḌHA-

MUṢṬRĀṀCA PĪṬHAṂ YOGINO VADANTI 40

AKASHIC REVELATION

LIE ON THE GROUND FACE,

DOWNWARDS, TURN UP THE LEGS AND

PLACE THEM TOWARDS THE BACK,

CATCH THE LEGS WITH THE HANDS,

CONTRACT FORCIBLY THE MOUTH AND

THE ABDOMEN. THIS IS CALLED THE

CAMEL-POSTURE.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

Āpta Pramana - आप्त प्रमाण

Kumbhaka Paddhati of

Raghuvira 104

नोभ्यं-आ-रेᳶ समकॄष्य

कुंडालयाह् पार्श्वयोᳶ

कॄषिपेत गच्छतां तिसृहतां द्वास-

धारणांᳶ न बलाद-यदा

अनिडंᳶ सहजो कुम्भो

प्रोक्तः। श​रि-कॄत्तिवाससᴀ

NOBHYĀM-Ā-RĀṄ SAMAKṚṢYA

KUṆḌALAYĀH PARŚVAYOṄ

KṚṢIPET GACCHATĀṂ TISṚHATĀṂ D̐VĀSA-

DHĀRAṆĀṄ NA BALĀD-YADĀ

ANIḌAṄṂ SAHAJAḤ KUMBHṒ

PROKTAH Ś​RI-KṚTTIVĀSĀSĀ

AKASHIC REVELATION

ĪNHĀLING PRANA THROUGH THE

NOSE AND CARRYING IT ALONG THE

KUNDALI, ONE SHOULD HOLD IT

COMFORTABLY OFF AND ON. THIS IS

SAHAJA-KUMBHAKA NARRATED BY SRI-

KRTTIVASA (SHIVA).

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Mandala Brahmanopanishad 3.5

लक्ष्येदॄन्तर्बाह्याभ्यायाᳶ दृष्टौᶇ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जितायाᳶ च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

संसारनिवृत्ति: । तत्पूजनं मोक्षफलदं ॥ ५ ॥

LAKṢYEDṆTARBĀHYĀBHYĀM DR̥ṢṬAUṄ

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀṂ CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

SAMSSĀRANIVṚTTIḤ | TATPŪJANAM MOṢAPHALADAM || 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Yoga Sikhopanishad

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्योᳶ तु संपीड्य वायुमाᳶकुच्येद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नानाद्बिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनतं ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ नात्र

संशय: ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀRṢṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀṄKUCYED

BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ

|| 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNĀDBINDU MŪLABANDHENA

CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHAU YACCHATO NĀTRA

SAMŚAYAḤ || 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.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF

RAGHUVIRA VERSE 104

Sahaja

DHANURASANA

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS LORD SHIVA'S BOW*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA

MAHASADASHIVOHAM

1. LAY DOWN ON STOMACH AND BRING HANDS TO THE FEET.

2. KICK LEGS BACK AND UP, AND SIMULTANEOUSLY

PULL FEET TOWARDS SKY.

3. LIFT CHEST OFF THE GROUND AND RAISE HEAD UP,

GAZING TO THIRD EYE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMĀNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

DHANURASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Gheranda Samhita 2.18

प्रसार्य पादौ भुवि दण्डरूपौ

करौ च पृष्ठे धृतपादयुगमम्

कृत्वा धनुस्तुल्यविवर्तिताङ्गं

निगददुयें योगी धनुरासनं तत् ॥१८

PRASĀRYA PĀDAU BHUVI DAṆḌARŪPAU

KARAU CA PṚṢṬHE DHṚTAPĀDAYUGMAM

KṚTVĀ DHANUSTULYAVIVARTITĀṆGAṂ

NIGADADDYA YOGĪ DHANURĀSANAṂ TAT ‖18

AKASHIC REVELATION

SPREADING THE LEGS ON THE GROUND,

STRAIGHT LIKE A STICK, AND CATCHING

HOLD OF (THE TOES OF ) THE FEET WITH

THE HANDS, AND MAKING THE BODY

BEND LIKE A BOW, IS CALLED BY THE

YOGIS THE DHANURASANA OR

BOW-POSTURE.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHĀKA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Kumbhaka Paddhati of

Raghuvira 104

नोभ्येऽन्तरैः समकृत्य

कुण्डालयाह् परुषयोह

कृतेपेत् गच्छता तिसृभतां देवस्-

धारणेऽन्त् न बलात्-यदात्

अनिःसङ् सहजो कुम्भो

प्रोक्तः। शरि-कीत्तिवासस्सत्॥

NOBHYĀM-ĀRAIḥ SAMĀKṚTYA

KUṆḌALAYĀH PĀRŚVAYOḥ

KṚPET GACCHATĀ TIṢṚBHATĀṂ ŚVASA-

DHĀRAṆĀṂ NA BALĀD-YADĀ

ANIṢAṂ SAHAJAṂ KUMBHĀḥ

PROKTAḥ ŚRĪ-KṚTTIVĀSĀSṢATā ‖

AKASHIC REVELATION

INHALING PRANA THROUGH THE

NOSE AND CARRYING IT ALONG THE

KUNDALI, ONE SHOULD HOLD IT

COMFORTABLY OFF AND ON. THIS IS

SAHAJA-KUMBHĀKA NARRATED BY SRI-

KṚTTIVASA (SHIVA).

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.

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVĪ MUDRA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Mandala Brahmanopanishad 3.5

लक्ष्येऽन्तर्ब्याह्यायाः दृष्टौ

निमेषोनमेषवर्जितायाः च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

संसारनिवृत्तिः । तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

‖

LAKSYE'NTARBĀHYĀYĀḥ DṚṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀḥ CA IYAṂ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

SAṂSĀRANIVṚTTIḥ | TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM ‖ 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 ṢAMBHAVĪ-MUDRA IS

ASSUMED. THIS MAHĀ-VIDYA (THE

GREAT ULTIMATE SOURCE KNOWLEDGE

IS, OF ALL THE TANTRA, 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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Yoga Sikhopanishad

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्यो तु सम्पीड्य वायुमाकुच्ययेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणःः

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṂ PĀṢṆYĀ TU SAṂPĪḌYA VĀYUMĀKUṆCYAYED

BALĀT |

VĀRAṂ VĀRAṂ YATHĀ CORDHVAṂ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḥ ‖ 104 ‖

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDŪ MŪLABANDHENA

CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAṂSIDDHAU 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.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF RAGHUVIRA VERSE 104

Sahaja

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

100. BHAGA ASANA

101. SIT ON BOTH KNEES WITH HEAD, KNECK AND SPINE IN STRAIGHT LINE.

102. PLACE PALMS DOWN ON TOP OF THIGHS/KNEES AND GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

BHAGA ASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA 222-225

उलटा मोडी पाव दोउ जैसे

बहुरौं जुगति करै इक जैसे

पावन माँहिला गुलफूँ जु होऊ

कुला पाँसति लावै सोऊ ॥२२२

पिस्ठि पगथल्याँ की पुनि जोई

हाथा सौ मोडै वह सोई

ताको जंध निकट लियदेवै

तासौं तिनकी पिस्ठि ललगावै ॥ २२३

अंगुरी दोय पग की ओड़ि

मेढ़ू उपरि आने सोइ

हाथा दोऊ गोडा परिरासै

द्रिस्टी त्रिकुटि मध्य दृसै ॥२२४

पीन सरल यासौं वहै संधिवाय मिटि जाय

ग्रन्थि जु प्रान अपान की याँ सौ तुरत नसाय ॥१२२५

ULĀTĀ MODĪ PĀVA DOU VAISE

BAHURAṄU JUGATI KARAI IKĀ AISE

PĀVANA MĀṀHILĀ GULPHŪṀ JU HOU

KULĀ PĀṀSATILĀVAI SOṈ ॥222

PIST!HI PAGATHALYĀṀ KĪ PUNI JOĪ

HĀTHĀ SAU MOṞEṀ VAHA SOĪ

TĀKO JAṀGHA NIKAT!AṀ LĪYAVAI

TĀSOṀ TINAKĪ PIṢ!T!HI LLAGĀVAI ॥ 223

AṀGURĪ DOYĀ PAGĀ KĪ JOĪ

MEṞHŪ UPARI ĀNAI SOĪ

HĀTHĀ DOU GOṚĀ PARIRĀṢAI

DRIS!T!I TRIKUT!I MADHYA DṚSAĪ ॥224

PĪNA SARALĀ YĀSOṀ VAHĀI SAMDHIVĀYA MIT!I JĀY

GRANTHI JU PRĀṆA APĀṆA KĪ YĀṀ SOṀ TURATA NASĀYA ॥1225

AKASHIC REVELATION

FOLD BOTH THE LEGS TOWARDS BACKSIDE IN SUCH A MANNER THAT HEELS ARE TOUCHING THE SIDES OF RESPECTIVE HIPS. TURN THE SOLES UPWARD WITH HANDS. TOES OF BOTH THE FEET SHOULD BE KEPT ON REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS. PLACE HANDS ON KNEES AND GAZE BETWEEN EYEBROWS.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHĀKA

ĀPTA PRAMĀṆA - आप्त प्रमाण

KUMBHĀKA PADDHATI OF RAGHUVĪRA 104

नोभ्येऽन्तः-आरं समकृत्य

कुण्डालयाः पार्श्वयोः

क्षिपेत् गच्छता तिसृभिः दश-

धरान्ॐ न बलात्-यदा

अनिःसॐ सहजो कुम्भो

प्रोक्तः॥ डरी-कृत्तिवाससः॥

NOBHYĀM-ĀRAṀ SAMĀKṚTYA

KUṆḌALAYĀḤ PĀRŚVAYOḤ

KṢIPET GACCHATĀ TIṢṚBHỊḤ ŚVASA-

DHĀRĀṆAṀ NA BALĀT-YADĀ

ANIḤSAṀ SAHAJAḤ KUMBHAḤ

PROKTAḤ ŚRĪ-KṚTTIVĀSASĀ

AKASHIC REVELATION

INHĀLING PRANA THROUGH THE NOSE AND CARRYING IT ALONG THE KUNDALI, ONE SHOULD HOLD IT COMFORTABLY OFF AND ON. THIS IS SAHAJA-KUMBHĀKA NARRATED BY ŚRI-KṚTTIVASA (ŚIVA).

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVĪ MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANIṢHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येन्दु-न्तर्बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निमेषोन्मेष-वर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति | सर्वतान्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति | तज्ज्ञानेन

संसार-निवृत्तिः | तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKṢYENDU-NTARBĀHYĀYĀṀ DRṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀṀ CA IYAṀ

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

SAMSSĀRANIVṚTTIḤ | TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM ॥ 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 ṢAMBHAVĪ-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANIṢHAD 104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो तु संपिड्य वायुमाकुंचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोध्र्वं समायाति समीरणः:

॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नादबिन्दू

मूलबन्धेन चैकताम् |

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धीघि यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥.

GUDAṀ PĀṢ!ṆYĀ TU SAṀPĪṬIYA VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED

BALĀT ।

VĀRAṀ VĀRAṀ YATHĀ CORDHVAṀ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ:

॥ 104 ॥

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM ।

GATVĀ YOGASYĀ SAMṢIDDHIṀṂ YACCHATO NĀTRA

SAMŚAYAḤ ॥ 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.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF RAGHUVIRA VERSE 104

Sahaja

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

GOHI ASANA

1. FROM KNEES, PLACE FOREARMS ON GROUND, FINGERS INTERLOCKED,

ELBOWS SHOULDER WIDTH APART.

2. PLACE TOP OF HEAD ON THE GROUND, HOLDING BACK OF HEAD WITH HANDS.

3. WALK TOES FORWARD UNTIL HIPS ALIGN WITH SHOULDERS.

4. LIFT THE FEET UP, KEEPING THE KNEES BENT TOGETHER

AGAINST THE CHEST AND TOUCHING THE CHIN.

5. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

ASANA

GOHI ASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA 170-173

दोऊ हाथ की कहुणी जोई पुनिह कलाइ जांणे दोई पिठि अं‌गुरया की पुनि जांतौं ए सब ले भू ऊपर ठानौं ll170 उभै कलाइ जूड़वा राखै तिन परि आनि सीस पर दार्षै या विधि आसन करि कापरि नासा दिष्टि रहे घिर धारि ll171 पीठि नाभि मिलावै दोई येई कुला राषि भोई गोड़ चिबुक अग्रे लगावै आसन गोहि नाम कहावै ll172 सिर नेत्र दुष्टि कसे तथा वामणि होय पहर येक आसन सधे लहै समाधिदो सोय ll173

DOU HĀTHA KĪ KAHUṆĪ JOĪ PUNiHA KALĀĪ JĀṆE DOĪ PIṢṬi AṂGURAYĀ KĪ PUNI JĀNTŌU E SABA LE BHŪ ŪPARA ṬHĀNŌU ll170 UBAI KALĀĪ JUṚAVĀ RĀKAI TIN PARI ĀNI SĪSA PARA DĀRṢAI YA VIDHI ĀSANA KARI KĀPARI NĀSĀ DIṢṬI RAHE GHIRA DHĀRI ll171 PĪṬHI NĀBHI MILĀVE DOĪ YĒḌI KULĀ RĀṢI BHOĪ GOṚĀ CIBUKA AGRE LAGĀVE ĀSANA GOHI NĀMA KAHĀVE ll172 SIRA NETRA DUṢṬI KASE TATHĀ VĀMAṆI HOYA PAHARA YEKĀ ĀSANA SADHE LAHAI SAMĀDHIDŌ SOYA ll173

AKASHIC REVELATION

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHĀKA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

KUMBHĀKA PADDHATI OF RAGHUVĪRA 104

नोभ्ये॑म्-आरेᳶ समाकृष्य कुण्डलालया᳘ परिपूरयोत᳘ कूर्पेतᳶ गच्छता᳘ तिसृहताऽ दे‌वस- धाराणां᳘ न बलाद्-यदा᳘ अनिःस॑म् सहजो कुम्भो᳘ प्रोक्ता᳘। श‍ृि-कृत्तिवाससा॥

NOBHYĀM-ĀRAṄ SAMĀKRṢYA KUṆḌALĀLAYĀṄ PARIPŪRAYOṄ KŌRPETṄ GACCHATĀṄ TISṚHATĀṄ DEVA- DHĀRĀṆĀṄ NA BALĀD-YADĀṄ ANIṄSAM SAHAJO KUMBHOṄ PROKTĀṄ. ŚRĪ-KṚTTIVĀSASĀ

AKASHIC REVELATION

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVĪ MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्ये॑न्तर्‌ बाह्याया᳘ दृष्टौ᳘ नि‌मेषो‌न्मेषव‌र्जिता᳘य च इयं शा᳙भी मु‌द्रा भवति । सर्व‌त‌न्त्रेषु गोप्या महा‌विद्या भवति । त‌ज्ज्ञानेन संसार‌निवृत्ति᳘ः । त‌त्पूज‌नं मो‌क्षफलदं᳘ ॥ ५ ॥

LAKṢYENTAR-BĀHYĀYĀṄ DRṢṬAUṄ NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀṄ CA IYAṄ ŚĀṄBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA SAMSSĀRANIVṚTTIṄ | TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAMṄ ll 5 ll

AKASHIC REVELATION

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṆA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो᳘ तु संपीड्य वायु‌माकू‌ञ्च‌येद्‌ बलातᳶ । वारं वारं यथा चो‌र्ध्व᳘ समायाति समीरणः᳘ ॥ १०४ ॥ प्राणापानौ नानाद‌बिन्दु᳘ मूल‌ब‌न्धेन चैक‌तातᳶᳶ गत्वा योग‌स्य स‌म्सि‌द्धि‌घ्ंि यच्‍छतो नात्र स‌म्शयः᳘ ॥ १०५ ॥

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AKASHIC REVELATION

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

KUMBHAKA PADDHATI OF RAGHUVIRA VERSE 104

Sahaja

SIRSASANA

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVOHAM

1. FROM KNEES, PLACE FOREARMS ON GROUND, FINGERS INTERLOCKED, ELBOWS SHOULDER WIDTH APART.

2. PLACE TOP OF HEAD ON THE GROUND, HOLDING BACK OF HEAD WITH HANDS.

3. WALK TOES FORWARD UNTIL HIPS ALIGN WITH SHOULDERS.

4. LIFT THE FEET UP AND STACK HIPS ON TOP OF SHOULDERS, KNEES ON TOP OF HIPS, AND ANKLES ON TOP OF KNEES.

5. GAZE TO THE NOSE.

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMANA-UPANISHAD 3. 5

VISUALIZE SWAMIJI, THE SPH

ASANA

SIRSASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Nathamuni's Yoga Rahasya 1. 53-54, 2. 13, 18

विपरीतं मण्डलं च द्विविधैव विदितं हि नः

दण्डासनं द्वविधा प्रोक्तं विपरीतोपवेशने ।।

सर्वाङ्गशोर्षाभागास्तु षट्षष्टिः: प्रतिष्ठितु ते

1

VIPARĪTAṂ MAṆḌALAṂ CA DVIDHAIVA

VIDITAṂ HI NAḤ

DAṇḌĀSANAM DVIDHĀ PROKTAṂ

VIPARĪTOPAVEŚANE ।।

SARVĀṆGASÍRṢĀBHĀGĀSTU ṢAṬṢAṢṬIḤ

PRATHIṬĀSTU TE ।

1

AKASHIC REVELATION

Then there are two types of inverted mandalas (arrangements)-

Sirsasana and Sarvangasana.

Dandasana is also of two types

inverted (Viparita Dandasana) and seated (Dandasana). It has been

proclaimed that there are sixty six

variations of Sarvangasana and

Sirsasana.

PRANAYAMA

SAHAJA KUMBHAKA

Āpta Pramana - आप्त प्रमाण

Kumbhaka Paddhati of

Raghuvira 104

नोभ्येऽन-आरेᳶ समाकृष्य

कुण्डालयाह् पार्श्वयोᳶ

कृृृपेत गच्छता तिसृृहलात् देवस्-

धारेणाऽन न बलाद-यदा

अनिलानᳶ सहजो कुम्भोᳶ

प्रोक्ताᳶ श्री-कृत्तिवाससᳶ

NOBHYĀM-ĀRaṃ SAMĀKṚṢYA

KUṇḌALAYĀH PĀRŚVAYOᳶ

KṚṢPET GACCHATĀ TIṢṚHATĀ ŚVAS-

DHĀRAṇĀM NA BALĀD-YADĀ

ANIṢAṂ SAHAJAᳶ KUMBHAᳶ

PROKTĀH ŚRI-KṚTTIVĀSASĀ

AKASHIC REVELATION

Inhaling Prana through the

nose and carrying it along the

Kundali, one should hold it

comfortably off and on. This is

Sahaja-Kumbhaka narrated by Sri-

Krttivasa (Shiva).

MUDRA

ṢAMBHAVI MUDRA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Mandala Brahmanopanishad 3.5

लक्ष्येऽन्तर्बाह्याभ्यायाᳶ दृष्ट्टौᳶ

निमेषोनमेषवर्जितायाᳶ च इयᳶ

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

संसारनिवृत्ति: । तत्पूजानᳶ मोक्षफलदᳶ ।। 5 ।।

LAKṢYE'NTARBĀHYĀYĀᳶ DṚṣṬAUᳶ

NIMEṢONAMEṢAVARJITĀYĀᳶ CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI । SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI । TAJJÑĀNENA

SAMṢĀRANIVṚTTIḤ । TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM ।। 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 Ṣambhavi-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Yoga Sikhopanishad

104 - 105

गुदं पाशण्योᳶ तु सम्पीड्य वायुᳶमाकुᳶचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारᳶ वारᳶ यथा चोर्ध्वᳶ समायाति समीरण:

।। १०४ ।।

प्राणापानौ नान्दबिन्दुᳶ मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनतᳶ ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धीᳶ यच्छतो नात्र

संशय: ।। १०५ ।।

GUDAᳶ PĀRṢṇYĀ TU SaṃPīDYA VĀYUṂMĀKUṆCAYED

BALĀT ।

VĀRAᳶ VĀRAᳶ YATHĀ CORDHVAᳶ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṇAḤ

।। १०४ ।।

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDUᳶ MŪLABANDHENA

CAIKEṄATA ।

GATVĀ YOGASYA SaṃSIDDHĪṂ YACCHATO NĀTRA

SaṃŚAYAḤ ।। १०५ ।।

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.

PRANAYAMA

Bhastrika Kumbhaka

Yoga Sikhopanishad 96-100

BANDHA

Mula Bandha

Yoga Sikhopanishad

104-105

JAPA

Om Nithyananda

Paramashivoham

PHODYASANA

1. Sit with hands behind calves and stretch the legs up.

2. Bring forehead to the knees and come to a vertical position with legs.

GAZE

Visualize Swamiji, the SPH

MUDRA

Śambhavi Mudrā

Mandala Brahmana-Upanishad 3. 5

ASANA

PHODYASANA

ĀPTA PRAMĀNA - आप्त प्रमाण

JOGAPRADIPYAKA OF JAYATARAMA 120-122

दोउ हाथ पग बाहर आनै

गोडा तरे कांखसी ठाने

अंगुष्ठ पिड़ली लागता धरै

चरण उभै आकास दिसि करै॥१२०

पिस्ठि सकुला धरती लावै

उदर संकोचि ऊर्ध ठहरावै

गोधा सीस बेधन करै

इह विधि फोदया आसन धरै॥१२१

देह विसाली नो रहे रक्तपिति पुनि जाय

फुसी गुमरि आदि जे नाना रोग नसाय ॥

१७२

DOU HĀTHA PAGA BĀHARA ĀNAI

GOḌĀ TARAI KĀMKASĪ ṬHĀNAI

AMGUṢṬHA PIḌALĪ LAGATĀ DHAARAI

CARAṆA UBHAI ĀKĀSA DISI KARAI॥120

PIṢṬI SAKULĀ DHARATĪ LĀVAI

UDARA SAMKOCI ŪRDHA ṬAHARĀVAI

GOḌHĀ SĪSA BHITHAMBHANA KARAI

IHA VIDHI PHODYĀ ĀSANA DHAARAI॥121

DEHA VISĀLĪ NĀ RAHE RAKTAPITI PUNI JĀY

PHUMSĪ GUMMARI ĀDI JE NĀNĀ ROGA NASĀYA ॥172

AKASHIC REVELATION

SIT WITH LEGS EXTENDED ON GROUND. SLOWLY RAISE LEGS UPWARD BY CATCHING HOLD OF CALVES WITH TWO HANDS. BY CONTRACTING THE ABDOMEN, RAISE THE HEAD UP TOWARDS THE KNEES.

PRANAYAMA

BHASTRIKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA-SIKHOPANISHAD 96 - 100

स्तनान्तरेऽपि भस्त्रेव लोकारस्य वेगतः ।

रेचयेत पूरयेच्चाप्यमुष्मिन्नेव धमनि द्वे ।। ९६ ।।

यथा श्वासोच्छवासौ तथा रेचयेच्च पूरयेत् ।

कण्ठसङ्कोचं कुर्वन् पूरणं रेचकं रयेत् ।। ९७ ।।

वातापित्तकफैः शस्तैः शररीरोगविनाशिभिः ।

कुम्भकं तु तदोक्तं शुभं सुखम् ।

ब्रह्माण्डं भ्राम्यते यस्मात्तस्मादभस्त्रिका मता ।। ९८ ।।

सर्वरोगनिवृत्तिश्च भस्त्रक्रियाऽनिलाश्रयात् ।

विशोधनं कृत्वा भस्त्रक्रियाम् कुर्यात् तिलं ।। १०० ।।

STANĀNTARE'API BHASTREVA LOKĀRĀSYA VEGATAH ।

RECAYET PŪRAYECCĀPYAMUṢMINNEVA DHAMANI DVE ॥ 96 ॥

YATHĀ ŚVĀSOCCVĀSAU TATHĀ RECAYECCA PŪRAYET ।

KAṆṬHASAMKOCAM KURVAN PŪRAṆAM RECakam RAYET ॥ 97 ॥

VĀTAPITTAKAPHAIḤ ŚASTAIḤ ŚARĪREROGAVINĀŚIBHIḤ ।

KUMBHAKAM TU TADOKTAM ŚUBHAM SUKHAM ।

BRAHMĀṆḌAM BHRĀMYATE YASMĀTTASMĀDABHASTRIKĀ MATĀ ॥ 98 ॥

SARVAROGANIVRTTIŚCA BHASTRAKRIYĀ'ANILĀŚRAYĀT ।

VIŚODHANAM KṚTVĀ BHASRAKRIYĀM KURYĀT TILAM ॥ 100 ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

(THE PRACTITIONER) SHOULD INTELLIGENTLY EXPEL WITH SPEED THE AIR IN THE BODY, OUT OF THE TWO BREASTS AND FILL (IT) IN (LIKEWISE), TILL HE IS OVERCOME WITH FATIGUE, AS WITH A BLACKSMITH'S PAIR OF BELLOWS. WHEN FATIGUE COMES ON IN THE BODY, THEN SHOULD HE FILL IN THROUGH THE SOLAR (NADI) AND AFTER CONSTRICTING THE THROAT, SHOULD EXPEL (IT) AGAIN THROUGH THE LUNAR (NADI). (THIS KUMBHAKA) REMOVES (THE EXCESS OF) THE MIND, BILE AND PHLEGM, RAISES THE TEMPERATURE OF THE BODY, ROUSES THE KUNDALI, REMOVES DEFECTS IN THE MOUTH, BESTOWS AUSPICIOUSNESS, IS WHOLESOME, REMOVES IMPEDIMENTS, SUCH AS PHLEGM REMAINING IN THE INTERIOR OF THE OPENING OF THE BRAHMA-NADL AND IS CAPABLE OF BURSTING THROUGH THE THREE KNOTS AS THE RESULT OF EFFECTIVELY PRACTICING THE BANDHAS. THIS KUMBHĀKA IS KNOWN AS THE BHASTRA AND SHOULD BE SPECIALLY PRACTISED.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येनोन्दर्‌त्‌र्बाह्याया दृश्‌टौ

निमेषोन्मेषवर्जितायां च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति | सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति | तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५

॥

LAKṢYENONTAR'BARHĀYĀYĀM DRṢṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITAYĀM CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

TAJJÑĀNENA SAMSSĀRANIVṚTTIḤ |

TATPŪJANAM MOKṢAPHALADAM ॥ 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 PRAMĀNA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो तु संपीड्य वायुं मूलाधारकुच्चयेद्‌

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणः

स निश्चयः ॥ १०४ ॥

प्राणापानौ नादबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनतं ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAM PĀṢAṆYĀ TU SAMPIṬYA VĀYUM MŪLĀDHĀRUKUCCAYED

BALĀT ।

VĀRAM VĀRAM YATHĀ CORDHVAM SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ

SA NIRṢCAYAḤ ॥ 104 ॥

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATAM ।

GATVĀ YOGASYA SAMSIDDHIM YACCHATO NĀTRA SAMŚAYAH ॥ 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.

PARIGHASANA

PRANAYAMA

BHASTRIKA KUMBHAKA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD 96-100

*VISUALIZE YOURSELF

AS A MACE*

BANDHA

MULA BANDHA

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104-105

JAPA

OM NITHYANANDA

PARAMASHIVOHAM

GAZE

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

MANDALA BRAHMNA-

UPANISHAD 3. 5

1. SIT AND EXTEND LEGS OUT AND UP AT 45 DEGREE ANGLE.

2. BRING HANDS BEHIND AND HOLD OPPOSITE SHOULDERS.

3. KEEP CHEST UPRIGHT, LEGS STRAIGHT, TOES POINTED.

4. HOLD THE BREATH AND GAZE TO THIRD EYE.

ASANA

PARIGHASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

Kapalakurantaka's Hathabhyasa Paddhati 2

उत्तानं शयनं कृत्वा पादौ मिलित्वा प्रसार्य

नितंब भूमौ सृप्टया हस्ताभ्यां कन्धरा

बध्वा कुम्भकं कृत्वा तिष्ठेत् परिघासन

भवति ॥२॥

UTTĀNAṀ ŚAYANAMḰ KṚTVĀ PĀDAU MILITVĀ PRAŚARYA

NITAMBAM BHŪMAU SPṚṢṬAYĀ HASTĀBHYĀṀ KANDHARĀ

BADHVĀ KUMBHAKAMḰ KṚTVĀ TIṢṬET PARIGHĀSANA

BHAVATI ॥2॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

LYING SUPINE EXTEND BOTH THE FEET

UNITED TOGETHER AND TOUCHING THE

GROUND WITH BUTTOCKS CATCH FIRMLY

THE SHOULDER WITH TWO HANDS AND

REMAIN WITH KUMBHAKA PERFORMED.

THIS IS CALLED PARIGHASANA.

PRANAYAMA

BHASTRIKA KUMBHAKA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Yoga-Sikhoupanishad 96 - 100

उत्तानोरस्य भस्त्रेव लोकारसाय वेगतः ।

रेचयेत पूरयेच्चापि नाभि ह्रिया ॥ ९६ ॥

यथा शस्त्रं भवेद्दोषे तथा श्वासोऽपि रेचकः ।

कण्ठसङ्कोचने कृते पूरकस्तु रेचयेत् ॥ ९८ ॥

वार्तापित्तकफश्लेष्मशामकऋणविधायकः ।

कुम्भकश्चात्र दोषाणां शमनं सुखदम् ॥ ९९ ॥

ब्रह्माण्डं शोषयेद्दुष्टं ग्रन्थित्रयविबन्धकम् ।

सम्यक्संयमने कर्तव्ये भस्त्राकुम्भके त्विदम् ॥

विषमेऽपि कृत्वा भस्त्राकुम्भकं तु लभेत् ॥ १०० ॥

UTTĀNORYASYA BHASTREVA LOKARĀSAYA VEGATAH |

RECAYET PURAYEC CĀPI NĀBHI HṚYĀ ॥ 96 ॥

YATHĀ ŚASTRAṀ BHAVEDDOṢE TATHĀ ŚVĀSO'PI RECYAKAḤ |

KAṆṬHASAMKOCANE KṚTE PURAKASTU RECAYET ॥ 98 ॥

VĀTĀPITTASLEṢMASHĀMAKAṚṆAVIDHĀYAKAḤ |

KUMBHAKAŚCĀTRA DOṢĀṆĀṀ ŚAMANAṀ SUKHADAM ॥ 99 ॥

BRAHMĀṆḌAṀ ŚOṢAYEDDUṢṬAṀ GRANTHITRAYAVIBANDHAKAM |

SAMYAKSAṂYAMANE KARTAVYE BHASTRĀKUMBHALE TVIDAM ॥

VIṢAME'PI KṚTVĀ BHASTRĀKUMBHAKAṀ TU LABHET ॥ 100 ॥

AKASHIC REVELATION

(THE PRACTITIONER) SHOULD

INTELLIGENTLY EXPEL WITH SPEED THE AIR

IN THE BODY, OUT OF THE TWO BREASTS

AND FILL (IT) IN (LIKEWISE), TILL HE IS

OVERCOME WITH FATIGUE, AS WITH A

BLACKSMITH'S PAIR OF BELLOWS. WHEN

FATIGUE COMES ON IN THE BODY, THEN

SHOULD HE FILL IN THROUGH THE SOLAR

(NADI) AND AFTER CONSTRICTING THE

THROAT, SHOULD EXPEL (IT) AGAIN

THROUGH THE LUNAR (NADI). (THIS

KUMBHAKA) REMOVES (THE EXCESS OF) THE

MIND, BILE AND PHLEGM, RAISES THE

TEMPERATURE OF THE BODY, ROUSES THE

KUNDALI, REMOVES DEFECTS IN THE

MOUTH, BESTOWS AUSPICIOUSNESS, IS

WHOLESOME, REMOVES IMPEDIMENTS,

SUCH AS PHLEGM REMAINING IN THE

INTERIOR OF THE OPENING OF THE

BRAHMA-NADL AND IS CAPABLE OF

BURSTING THROUGH THE THREE KNOTS AS

THE RESULT OF EFFECTIVELY PRACTICING

THE BANDHAS. THIS KUMBHAKA IS KNOWN

AS THE BHASTRA AND SHOULD BE SPECIALLY

PRACTISED.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Mandala Brahmanopanishad 3.5

लक्ष्येन्दुर्न्तरबाह्याया दृष्ट्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जिताया च इयं

शांभवी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतन्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्ज्ञानेन

तत्पूजानं मोक्षफलदम् ॥ ५ ॥

LAKṢYENDURNṬARABĀHYĀYĀM DrṢṬṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀYĀṀ CA IYAM

ŚĀMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

TAJPŪJANAMḰ MOKṢAPHALADAMḰ ॥ 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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Yoga Sikhopanishad

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो तु सम्पीड्य वायुमा कुंच्येद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरणः:

प्राणापानौ नादबिन्दू मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ यच्छतो नात्र

संशयः ॥ १०५ ॥

GUDAṀ PĀṢAṆYO TU SaṁPĪḌYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṀ VĀRAṀ YATHĀ CORDHVAṀ

SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ ॥ 104 ॥

PRĀṆAPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SaṁSIDDHAU

YACCHATO NĀTRA SaṁŚAYAHḰ ॥ 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.

PRANAYAMA

Bhastrika Kumbhaka

Yoga Sikhopanishad 96-100

NAUKASANA

*Visualize Yourself

as a boat*

BANDHA

Mula Bandha

Yoga Sikhopanishad

104-105

JAPA

Om Nithyananda

Paramashivoham

*Keep elbows and palms

down on the ground*

1. Sit and extend legs out and up at 45 degree angle.

2. Bring the elbows down on the ground beside the hips.

3. Keep chest upright, legs straight, toes pointed.

GAZE

MUDRA

Śambhavi Mudra

Mandala Brahmana-

Upanishad 3. 5

ĀSANA

NAUKASANA

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप्त प्रमाण

KAPALAKURANTAKA HATHABHYASA

PADDHATI II

उत्कानशयनं कूर्पराभ्यां भूमिमवष्टभ्येहस्ते

नितंब निधाय

शिरः ऊरु जघनपादान् दंडवत् धारयेत्

नौकासनमं भवति

UTTĀNAŚAYANAm KŪRPARĀBHYĀm BHŪMIMAVAṢṬABHYAHASTE

NITAṂBAṁ NIDHĀYA

ŚIRAḤ ŪRU JAGHNAPĀDĀN DAṂḌAVAT DHĀRAYET NAUKĀSANAMaṁ BHAVATI

AKASHIC REVELATION

LYING SUPINE HOLD THE GROUND WITH

THE ELBOWS AND KEEP THE TWO HANDS

ON THE HIPS, THEN KEEP UP THE HEAD,

THE THIGH, THE SHANK AND THE FEET

LIKE A STICK. THIS IS CALLED

NAUKASANA.

PRANAYAMA

BHASTRIKA KUMBHAKA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṇA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA-SIKHOPANISHAD 96 - 100

स्तनान्तयोः भस्त्रेव लोककार्यं वेगत: ।

रेचयेत पूरयेदायुामाशं हृदयम् धिया ।

यथा श्रासो मर्दितो तेथा श्रासो मर्दितो तथा ।

कण्ठसकोचं कुता पुंस्तनं रेचयेत ।

वार्तापित्तकफश्लेष्माशामरोगशान्तिदायकम् ।

कुठलीबद्धं तु यो दद्यात् शुभं सुखम् ।

ब्रह्माण्डमण्डलं भित्त्वा सूर्यलोकं स गच्छति ।

सर्वव्याधींश्च नाशयति वायुसंयमविधानतः ।

विशोधयन् कण्ठवतः भस्त्राख्या कुम्भकं तु लिम् ।

STANĀYORATHA BHASTREVA LOHAKĀRyaṁ VEGATAḤ |

RECAYet PŪRAYEDĀYŪMĀśaṁ HṛDAYAM DHiyā |

YATHĀ śRAMO BHĀVEDEDE THĀ śRAMO BHĀVEDO TATHĀ |

KAṆṬHASKOCOCANAṁ KṚTVA PUNASTANaṁ RECAYet |

VĀTAPITTAKAPHAŚLEṣMĀśāMAROGAśāNTIDĀYAKAM |

KUṬHILĪBADDHAṁ TU YO DADYĀT ŚUBHAṁ SUKHAM |

BRAHMĀṆḌAMAṆḌALaṁ BHITTVĀ SŪRYALOKaṁ SA GACCHATI |

SARVAVYĀDHĪṁśCA Nāśayati VĀYUṢaṁYAMAVIDHāNATAḤ |

VIśODHAYAN KAṆṬHAVATAḤ BHASTRĀKHyā KUMBHakaṁ TV IDAM |

AKASHIC REVELATION

(THE PRACTITIONER) SHOULD

INTELLIGENTLY EXPEL WITH SPEED THE AIR

IN THE BODY, OUT OF THE TWO BREASTS

AND FILL (IT) IN (LIKEWISE), TILL HE IS

OVERCOME WITH FATIGUE, AS WITH A

BLACKSMITH'S PAIR OF BELLOWS. WHEN

FATIGUE COMES ON IN THE BODY, THEN

SHOULD HE FILL IN THROUGH THE SOLAR

(NADI) AND AFTER CONSTRICTING THE

THROAT, SHOULD EXPEL (IT) AGAIN

THROUGH THE LUNAR (NADI). (THIS

KUMBHAKA) REMOVES (THE EXCESS OF) THE

MIND, BILE AND PHLEGM, RAISES THE

TEMPERATURE OF THE BODY, ROUSES THE

KUNDALI, REMOVES DEFECTS IN THE

MOUTH, BESTOWS AUSPICIOUSNESS, IS

WHOLESOME, REMOVES IMPEDIMENTS,

SUCH AS PHLEGM REMAINING IN THE

INTERIOR OF THE OPENING OF THE

BRAHMA-NADL AND IS CAPABLE OF

BURSTING THROUGH THE THREE KNOTS AS

THE RESULT OF EFFECTIVELY PRACTICING

THE BANDHAS. THIS

KUMBHAKA IS KNOWN AS THE BHASTRA

AND SHOULD BE SPECIALLY PRACTISED.

MUDRA

ŚAMBHAVI MUDRA

ŚĀSTRA PRAMĀṇA - शास्त्र प्रमाण

MANDALA BRAHMANOPANISHAD 3.5

लक्ष्येणोन्दर्‌त्‍‌बाह्याभ्यां दृष्टौ

निर्मेषोन्मेषवर्जिताभ्यां च इयं

शांभावी मुद्रा भवति । सर्वतान्त्रेषु गोप्या

महाविद्या भवति । तज्जाननेन

संसारनिवृत्ति: । तत्पूजनं मोक्षफलदम् ।

LAKṢYE'NTAR'BĀHYĀBHYĀṁ DṛṣṬAU

NIMEṢONMEṢAVARJITĀBHYĀṁ CA IYAM

ŚāMBHAVĪ MUDRĀ BHAVATI | SARVATANTREṢU GOPYĀ

MAHĀVIDYĀ BHAVATI | TAJJÑĀNENA

SAMSSĀRANIVṚTTIḤ | TATPŪJANaṁ MOKṢAPHALADAM |

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 ŚAMBHAVI-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 - शास्त्र प्रमाण

YOGA SIKHOPANISHAD

104 - 105

गुदं पाषण्यो तु संपीड्य वायुमा‌कुंचयेद्

बलात् ।

वारं वारं यथा चोर्ध्वं समायाति समीरण:

प्राणापानौ नानाद्बिन्दु मूलबन्धेन

चैकेनताम् ।

गत्वा योगस्य संसिद्धौ नात्र

संशय: ।

GUDAṁ PāRṣṇYā TU SaṁPīDYa

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALāT |

VĀRaṁ VĀRaṁ YATHā CORDHVaṁ SAMAYāTI SAMīRAṆAḤ |

PRāṆāPāNAU NāNāDBINDU MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATāM |

GATVā YOGASYA SaṁSIDDHA conclusIONI YaCCHATO NāTRA SaṁśAYaḤ |

GUDAM PĀṢṆYĀ TU ŚAMPĪDYA

VĀYUMĀKUÑCAYED BALĀT |

VĀRAṀ VĀRAṀ YATHĀ CORDHVAṀ SAMĀYĀTI SAMĪRAṆAḤ || 104 ||

PRĀṆĀPĀNAU NĀNDABINDU

MŪLABANDHENA CAIKATĀM |

GATVĀ YOGASYA SaṁSIDDHIṀ

YaCCHATO NĀTRA SaṁŚAYAH || 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.