Pranayama

A Simple Pranayama

Pranayama is a system of sexual transmutation for bachelors and bachelorettes. We already know that the two ganglionic cords, entwined along the spinal medulla in the form of an eight, ascend from the male’s testicles and from the woman’s ovaries towards the brain. These two ganglionic cords are the Two Witnesses mentioned in the book of Revelation (Apocalypse); likewise, “these are also the two olive branches… and the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth,” mentioned in Zachariah 4:12, 14. These are two hollow nerves, two fine canals through which the sexual energies ascend to the brain. The student inhales the air through the left nostril and exhales it through the right, and vice-versa. With the thumb and index fingers, one controls the nostrils in an alternating manner. When inhaling through Pingala, the solar nostril, we intensely imagine the radiant and sublime solar atoms rising through the solar cord to the brain; then hold the breath and carry that solar force to...

Ham-Sah Pranayama

There are diverse esoteric systems for transmuting the seminal entity into sexual energy. Certainly, the most powerful one (the Arcanum A.Z.F.) has to be performed by a man and a woman - we are talking specifically about the Sahaja Maithuna, sexual yoga, White Tantra; elsewhere we will give all the details for that practice. Now, for the moment we are going to explain an exercise that can be practiced by single people as well as by those who are married. I am going to tell you the technique just now; please pay attention... Sit down comfortably: the eastern way (cross-legged) or the western way (on a comfortable armchair). Relax your bodies as children do. Inhale deeply, very slowly, and imagine that the creative energy rises through the spermatic channels up to the brain; mentally pronounce the mantra HAM like this: HAAAAAAAMM. Exhale, short and quick, as you...

Pranayama

Pranayama is a method to transmute creative energy that relies on a combination of sexual chastity (restraint or containment of sexual energy), concentration, imagination, and breathing. The word pranayama comes from Sanskrit and is composed of: prana: (Tibetan: bindu) Life-principle; the breath of life; energy. ayama: restraint or control Although anyone can utilize pranayama techniques, they are most important for pratitioners who are single. Pranayama is a system of sexual transmutation for single persons. - Samael Aun Weor, The Yellow Book Breath is external manifestation of Prana, the vital force. Breath like electricity, is gross Prana. Breath is Sthula, gross. Prana is Sukshma, subtle. By exercising control over this breathing you can control the subtle Prana inside. Control of...

Sivananda: Pranayama

Prana means breath and Ayama means control. By Pranayama is meant the control of Prana and the vital forces of the body. Pranayama begins with the regulation of breath and ends in establishing full and perfect control over the life-currents or inner vital forces. In other words, Pranayama is the perfect control of the life-currents through regulation of breath. Breath like electricity is gross Prana. By establishing control over the gross Prana, you can easily gain control over the subtle Prana inside. The process by which such control is established is called Pranayama. Pranayama is the fourth limb of Ashtanga Yoga. Prana is the oldest for, it starts functioning from the very moment the child is conceived. On the contrary, the organs of the body such as hearing, and so forth, begin to function only when their special abodes viz., the ears, etc., are formed. Prana is called the oldest and the best in the Upanishads because it gained the victory in the fight between mind and the five organs. In...

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