When you bring about a balance in your breath – how do you balance it? With your body. To bring about a certain poise in the body, a more energetic Wim Hoff technique is recommended. You can trigger off also some dormant areas in your brain which you require. Your brain doesn’t know. It has gone boink – that must be stimulated.
You get
strength – both at the physical and nervine level. You can then quickly
progress in Ninada. Then using that breath, what do you do? We tell you before
Japa - in a very low tone say mmmmm or
Aim, Hrim, Shrim Gurubhyo namaha – lower the pitch – to the extent you can.
Feel that. If you can place the bijaakshara, nothing like it. But even that,
controlled, relaxed, but not really belly breathing – there the breath becomes
your vehicle.
Utterance
of the mantra goes on in the form of Vaikhari. Slow that down. Use of Vaikhari is
decreased. What is going on? Hmmmmm ….Breathing continues. Even that sound dies
out. Your breathing continues. You will continue in the same format. You may
not even open your mouth now. It will just be though the nostrils. But still
that breathing, that posed state, which you at a mental level have achieved –
because the attention is now on the pitch – that continues. Your breath is the
vehicle . It is said – there is a fine line (pardaa). I cannot do anything
else. Cannot say anything. Because of ninaada, the breath gets regulated
subtly. That continues. That becomes the vehicle.
And then
you know what happens? Slowly, suddenly, actually, you may become aware of a
deeper shakti which is not something you can definitely regulate like your
breathing. You can hold your breath, you can breathe faster. Whatever. But
something underlying, even that breathing process, if you take your attention
there, you begin to experience the transmission of energy (prana shakti). And
that prana is everything. The moment one focuses on it, the mantra begins to
blossom and one quickly progresses in dhyana. There is total internalization
with just one desire – “I don’t want to be disturbed. There is no distraction.
There is nothing. Nothing absolutely “I want this … I should do this … Oh I
should not have done that … Nothing. Not sure where the mind is focused. It is
just captured by the nada. Was it not first reveled to the Acharya in the form
of nada? Only then followed in the form of para, Pashyanti, Madhyama, and Vaikhari.
As one
controls the uttered sound (Vaikhari), one regulates the breath, one develops
strength, lowers the pitch of vaani and eventually stops, focus is now on
breath and then shvasa will introduce you to the prana. That is whay it is
called aayaman. It is not just breathing and all. That is good.
Hyperventilation is done with Wim Hoff which is beneficial. But oec regulation
begins you may become aware of the prana. And you cant control it. It is too
vast. But you begin to become aware. And that becomes the vehicle which takes
you inside. And your mantra explodes. Devata is pleased.
After that
it becomes effortless. Just like when you are reading a novel. As long as you
are aware of everything else, you are distracted by “Don’t make that noise.
This is not bad. Hey you don’t disturb me, or switch on this light’ and so on.
Once you are captivated, caught in the narrative, then nothing else is needed.
You don’t know where you are sitting! That is when you become engrossed and
progress deep into the mantra. So that shvasa becomes the vehicle for the internalization. That is why we
emphasize on it so much.
Starting
from ‘aa…..” All reservations are given up … just uttering …. Vocal chords open
up. During Vaikhari Saraswati is worshipped and the breathing goes well. At the
Madhyama level also Saraswati is worshipped while the breathing continues,
uccharana is now discontinued. At the Pashyanti level also Saraswati is
propitiated. That is when, propitiator and propitiated cannot be differentiated
and there is oneness in the para vani.
Do you
understand this? If you follow this daily discipline, then your progress will be
exponential. That level of alertness is required. The you will understand all
these elements are so necessary and such powerful ingredients to your basic
fundamental upasana.
Om
