I have rejoined this Art Of Living - Part 1 course designed by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar guruji. Yesterday was my second day in the class and my teacher taught us the Sudarshan Kriya. This was a very phenomenal experience. The main key point in this course is to drink plenty of water - as plenty as possible since this Kriya does a complete deep inner cleansing and removes all the toxins. Another catch is to keep our eyes closed throughout the process and feel the eternity in self.
The Kriya starts with closing our eyes for the 3-stage yoga sitting in Vajrasana and doing in Ujjayai breath(the breath experienced in the throat & not in the nostrils) followed by Bhastrika in normal breath. After these paranayama(breathing excerises), we chanted OM thrice which invoked vibrations in abdomen, chest area and as well in the face-head area. As the OM chants finishes, will begin the Guruji's tape which has a recorded voice of Guruji himself chanting SoHam in a particular rhythm which again contains Long-Medium-Fast paced rhythms (It goes like this So--------Ham So--------Ham So--------Ham - So----Ham So----Ham So----Ham - SoHam SoHam SoHam) to breathe in-&-out in normal breaths. This cycle of Long-medium-fast SoHams are almost repeated for about 8 or 9 cycles followed by complete body relaxation in Shavasana. During this stage I had lots of vibrations throughout my body. Also, I had all sorts of mixed thoughts flowing - sad, happy, good, etc for which my emotions were just frozen to accept all the thoughts as they were. I felt my emotions were so controlled and eventually felt as light as a feather. The whole kriya lasted somewhere slightly less than a hour & a half.
As I opened my eyes I was so relaxed and energized at the same time so joyful, I felt complete and was fully charged up for yet another round of Kriya which in fact didn't happen. Since you are not supposed to do this kriya twice in a day. Also, the class was almost over, it was quarter to nine in the night and my buddy along with other classmates were hungry for their dinner. Actually, yesterday was the total lunar eclipse which I missed watching for which I don't regret though! At the end, we called it a day and signed off with yet another homework which I am working on it right now to discuss my opinions in the class. I should bring to your notice that these homeworks will not only wake-up your thinking level but also makes you re-discover yourself with the answers you hear from your inner voice.In total, it’s a bliss!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
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I've been trying to setup a blog just like yours, can you tell me how you managed it?
Let us all express our opinions here. Do you think random babbles like this should be allowed to hang in threads or should they be erased? Share your opinions.
There was a story about this in our newspaper. People come to steal other people's content from blogs and then publish on their own sites.
It's not a good idea to make me upset, and when my comments get removed I get really sad.
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
short sudarshan kriya with ujjayi and bhasrika can be done twice a day,by anybody.but it is important to do conscious slow deep abdominal breathing and shavasana for atleast 15 min after it,everytime
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