{"id":293,"date":"2012-04-23T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/?p=293"},"modified":"2012-04-09T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T00:39:58","slug":"kewali-pranayama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/kewali-pranayama\/","title":{"rendered":"Kewali Pranayama"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Pranayama is especially to attain an advanced stage and for practicing twenty-four hours a day. A mantra \u2018Hamsa\u2019<\/em> or \u2018Soham\u2019<\/em> which means \u2018that is me\u2019 is practiced in it. The mind is a power of the soul indeed and to dissolve it in the same (soul) is actually the union of Shiva (supreme soul) and Shakti<\/em> (energy). When wavering of the mind stops, then, it drowns in the soul and Kewali<\/em> Pranayama is done to achieve this purpose.<\/p>\n

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While breathing in, one should have such a feeling as it contains a divine light and imagine the mantra \u2018Ham\u2019<\/em>; and while breathing out, it should be imagined as the flow of glowing prana is mixing into a vast divine light and a sound of \u2018sa\u2019<\/em> is heard within.<\/p>\n

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In this way, recitation of the mantra \u2018Hamsa\u2019<\/em> should go on with the natural breathing process without any extra effort, and the divine self should be visualized within and outside in the integrated form. The \u2018Hamsa\u2019<\/em> mantra is called the \u2018Ajapa\u2019<\/em> mantra or \u2018Ajapa Gayatri\u2019<\/em> mantra because its recitation goes on constantly by itself with the respiration process.<\/p>\n

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This Pranayama affects the Kundalini Shakti<\/a><\/em> also. When breath goes in, it should be felt that light is going through center of the forehead (bhrikuti<\/em>) and spine to the Mooladhar Chakra<\/em>. Then it comes out through the same way as a divinely bright breath from the spine and bhrikuti<\/em> (center of forehead) mixing into a vast divine animated form.<\/p>\n

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Sadhaka<\/em> of Kewali<\/em> Pranayama starts visualizing the soul faster. With the dissolving of Prana<\/em> into the divine element the setting in of mind in the same is natural. Because \u201cyatra prana liyate tatra mana liyate\u201d<\/em><\/strong> that is the mind goes where the pranas<\/em> go.<\/p>\n

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With this practice, the mind and the brain remain in tranquility, enhances life because the speed of pranas<\/em> lengthens and becomes subtle, which relaxes heart and lungs.<\/p>\n

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Initially, this should be practiced both the times in morning and evening while sitting in any posture. After a long practice, one attains the skill and its recitation goes on itself even while working. It is recited twenty one thousand six hundred (21600) times in a day and night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Pranayama is especially to attain an advanced stage and for practicing twenty-four hours a day. A mantra \u2018Hamsa\u2019 or \u2018Soham\u2019 which means \u2018that is me\u2019 is practiced in it. The mind is a power of the soul indeed and to dissolve it in the same (soul) is actually the union of Shiva (supreme soul) … Continue reading “Kewali Pranayama”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,3,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-hathayoga","category-insight-in-yoga","category-pranayama"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yFu-4J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysaindia.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}