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energy goes down to Muladhara. Kechari Mudra cooperates with the process:
during Mula Bandha, the tongue (inside the nasal pharynx) is pushed upward and
forward.
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Kriya Pranayama (1st part) with particular perception of rotating energy
What I am going to describe, comes out very easily to those who have practiced
the two previous instructions. After some days of successful practice of Aswini
Mudra or Mula Bandha during Kriya Pranayama, the spinal path of the energy
is perceived as an helix. In a nutshell, starting from the base of the spine, the
energy comes up rotating counterclockwise along the spinal channel. Then the
energy comes down along the same path, hence rotating clockwise. You will
experience a strong sensation of physical immobility and perceive your spine as
a steel bar. You are very near to the state of Samadhi.
Kriya Pranayama (2nd part) with particular Chakra stimulation
What we are going to describe concerns only the exhalation of the 2nd part of
Kriya Pranayama. [It comes out easily to those who have practiced the previous
instructions.]
During exhalation, realize that it is not difficult to give a particular ''jerk''
at each Chakra location. Each kriyaban has such power and you can increase it.
When you give the jerk, it is impossible to tell if there is a short pause of
the breath or, quite the reverse, there is a short emission of breath. What you feel
is an intensity of awareness and energy stimulating one Chakra at a time. The
final jerk in Muladhara at the end of exhalation creates an intense outburst of
joy.
While progressing in this practice, you can experience a really
internalized exhalation. This happens when you give a jerk to Medulla
oblongata and the physical breath disappears entirely. Internalized exhalation is
not accompanied by the exit of the air through the nose. This is one of the
mysterious facts of Kriya, difficult to understand with the sheer logic.
[3] VARIATIONS OF NAVI KRIYA
Chanting Om alternatively between Kutastha and navel
All the details of the standard Navi Kriya given in Chapter 6 up to the forward
bending of the head remain unchanged.
In this variation (really very sweet and comfortable) the Om Mantra is
mentally chanted in alternation between the point between the eyebrows and the
navel (Om in the point between the eyebrows, Om in the navel, Om in the point
between the eyebrows, Om in the navel& and so on).
The most useful way of doing it is to synchronize the breath with the Om
chanting. Visualize a tiny silver cord that comes out from the point between the
eyebrows bends slightly and goes down to the navel. When it comes natural to
have a very short inhalation, inhale (only what is necessary), visualize the
movement of air rising, through the visualized duct, from the navel to the point
between the eyebrows, pause an instant there just chant Om mentally. When it
comes natural to exhale, exhale, visualizing the movement of air going down
into the navel, pause and chant Om mentally in the navel. By repeating this, you
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will markedly feel that your breath begins to subside and disappear. When this
happens, go on mentally chanting the Om Mantra in alternation between the
point between the eyebrows and the navel and moving the focus of your
awareness between these two points, without ceasing being aware of the "silver
cord". Carry on.
When Om is chanted about 75 times, bend your head backwards and
repeat a similar procedure by chanting Om in alternation between the Bindu and
the third Chakra. Visualize another tiny silver cord that connects (outside your
body) the Bindu to the third Chakra. Let your breath if there is still a trace of
breath flow freely through that cord. When Om is chanted about 25 times,
resume the chin's normal position and chant mentally Om in the point between
the eyebrows, Medulla oblongata, Chakras 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1. This is one Navi
Kriya. The optimum is to have 4 cycles of Navi Kriya.
Navi Kriya coming down through four directions
The following variation of Navi Kriya is the one many kriyabans like the best.
As it happens in the basic form of Navi Kriya, a kriyaban's awareness goes
slowly up along the spinal column placing the syllable Om in the six Chakras.
Then the chin is brought down toward the throat cavity.
Now, a short inhalation (two seconds maximum, without concentrating on
the Chakras) is followed by a very long exhalation, during which, the energy is
felt descending from the frontal part of the brain, along a path outside the body
to the navel, reaching through it the Dantian region.
During this long exhalation, Om is chanted mentally, rapidly, 10-15 times,
accompanying the descent of energy throughout the path. After a short pause in
the Dantian, the head resumes its normal position.
Now each detail is repeated but the descent of the energy happens through
a different path. A short inhalation draws the energy into the head again. The
head bends but not in the front: it bends toward the left shoulder, without turning
the face. A long exhalation (with the same chanting of Om, Om, Om& )
accompanies the downward movement of energy which starts from the brain's
left side and moves along a path outside the body at its left side (as if shoulder or
arm would not exist). The energy comes down to the waist, cross it and moves
toward the Dantian.
The head moves back into its normal position. After a short inhalation, the
head bends backwards. A long expiration (with the same chanting of Om, Om,
Om& ) accompanies the downward movement of energy which starts from the
occipital region and moves (outside the body) down to the waist where it bends,
pierces the third Chakra Manipura and moves toward the inside of the
abdominal region (Dantian). The procedure is repeated likewise on the right
side.
This last exhalation concludes a mini cycle of four exhalations accompanied by
four descents of energy towards the waist and, crossing it, towards the region of
low abdomen. This mini cycle is repeated 9 times. In conclusion we have had
4x9 = 36 descents of energy. After these exhalations, the procedure ends with a
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mental chanting of Om in each Chakra from Ajna Chakra to Muladhara.
What we have described lasts 8-10 minutes and is equivalent to 4
repetitions of the basic form of Navi Kriya.
Remark
As the practitioner proceeds with the rotations and the effects of the technique
become more and more perceptible, the movements of the head become less
marked the process internalizes. One phenomenon is remarkable: at the very
moment the order to exhale has been imparted by the mind, it feels as if the lungs
cannot move. Some instants later comes the awareness of something subtle
descending into the body. A new kind of exhalation is enjoyed, like an internal
all-pervading pressure. It brings about a peculiar feeling of well-being, harmony,
and freedom. One has the impression one could remain like that forever. Logic
implies that breath is coming out of the nose, yet you would swear it doesn't.
This may be considered the first experience of Pranayama with internal breath
(also called Kriya of the cells) that we are going to discuss in Chapter 12.
Navi Kriya with Reversed Breathing
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