January 21 2011

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Living incarnation and Avatar, His Divine Holiness Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam dove into the Patanjali Sutra on Ashtanga Yoga. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, an important spiritual scripture which has inspired millions of seekers and yoga enthusiasts in both the East and the West. In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali, a spiritual scientist and the founding father of Yoga, discusses the truths about yoga in a straight-forward manner so that seekers can immediately experience the benefits of Yoga practice. Patanjali teaches the science of life, the science of living and the science of Yoga (uniting). In today's sutra, His Divine Holiness explains how pranayama should be translated as cessation of air movements without thoughts and not as control of breathing.
Following that was the 4 day meditation program called Nithyananda Spurana Program (now known as Nithya Kriya Yoga).

Title: Kundalini Awakening Q&A

Kundalini Awakening Q&A 2011 Jan 21

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In this q&A session living incarnation (avatar) Paramahamsa Nithyananda answers questions on eN-effect and kundalini awakening. Watch the interesting q&A to know more.

Title: Pranayama 1 (Patanjali Yoga Sutras 100)

Ashtanga Yoga: Pranayama 1 (Patanjali Yoga Sutras 100) Nithyananda Satsang 2011 Jan 21

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All orthodox translations say Pranayama is control of breathing. Living incarnation Paramahamsa Nithyananda translated it as the cessation of breathing. Breathing which you experience every day - the movement of air with thoughts - should be stopped. The thoughts being awakened with the breathing should b stopped. Prana is air movement without thoughts.

Cessation of air movements without thoughts is what Paramahamsa Nithyananda calls Pranayama.

After achieving the firm posture (as described in yesterday's discourse), you should learn the practice of breathing without thinking, that is the science of pranayama. Along with the air movement, if the thoughts are awakened, you are not inhaling life energy.

Air is not energy. Air is like a truck; life energy is the cargo carried by truck. Life energy gets unloaded into the body and air comes out. If there is less thought, more life energy will go inside. The truck should be of less weight and more products should go in.

All of us are doing this, too much air is going in and no life energy is coming inside. Only life energy, not air, is the ideal situation. Breathing without thinking.

After mastering sitting in a sturdy comfortable posture through the balancing technique, you should now learn the science of exhaling and inhaling without thoughts. It's not just controlling the exhalation and inhalation. That is what I call cessation of breathing: Pranayama.