Kumbhaka at 3 points in the body

Description

Various Types of Pranayamas

Type

Technique

Pramana

Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण

Source

Darshanopanishad VI. 22-23

Original Verse

"विनियोगान् प्रवक्ष्यामि प्राणायामस्य सुव्रत |

संध्ययोर्ब्राह्मकालेऽपि मध्याह्ने वाथवा सदा ॥ २१ ॥

बाह्यं प्राणं समाकृष्य पूरयित्वोदरेण च |

नासाग्रे नाभिमध्ये च पादाङ्गुष्ठे च धारणात् ॥ २२ ॥

सर्वरोगविनिर्मुक्तो जीवेद्वर्षशतं नरः |"

Transliteration

"viniyogān pravakṣyāmi prāṇāyāmasya suvrata |

saṃdhyayorbrāhmakāle'pi madhyāhne vāthavā sadā ॥ 21 ॥

bāhyaṃ prāṇaṃ samākṛṣya pūrayitvodareṇa ca |

nāsāgre nābhimadhye ca pādāṅguṣṭhe ca dhāraṇāt ॥ 22 ॥

sarvarogavinirmukto jīvedvarṣaśataṃ naraḥ |"

Translation

Drawing in the Prana air outside and filling up with (that in) the belly, in the morning and evening twilights, in the hour before the dawn (Brahma) at noon or at all times, and holding it at the tip of the nose, in the middle navel and at the big toes of the feet, the man will live for a hundred years, free of all diseases.