CHAPTER 15 NADA, THE INNER SOUND The concept of prayer is well known. Here, however, we are not concerned with prayer but with mantra, though a certain relationship does exist between the tw... Read more
CHAPTER 14 THE SHAMBHAVI MUDRA AND THE INNER LIGHT (35) The Vedas, the Shastras and the Puranas are like prostitutes [attainable to all]. The shambhavi mudra, however, is like a chaste woman... Read more
CHAPTER 12 MIND AND BREATH mind and prana, so it is said, are one, and thus mind and breath are interdependent. Where there is breath there is thought; without breath the activities of the m... Read more
PART FOUR PASSIVE YOGA CHAPTER II SAMADHI imagine that on the first morning after Easter vacation, a professor enters his classroom and announces: “Ladies and gentlemen, forget everyth... Read more
CHAPTER 10 THE SHAKTI everything so far has really been only preparation. Everything essential has been accomplished, except the most essential: the raising of kundalini. To be sure, the yog... Read more
CHAPTER 9 THE BANDHAS before going any further let us recall one sentence: “Maha-mudra, mahabandha) mahavedha, khecari; uddiyana bandha, mula bandha, and jalandhara bandha; viparitakar... Read more
CHAPTER 8 THE NECTAR (32-37) When the tongue is bent back into the gullet and the eyes are fastened upon the point between the eyebrows, this is khecari mudra. When the membrane below the to... Read more
PART THREE ACTIVE YOGA CHAPTER 7 THE MUDRAS (1) fust as Ananta the lord of the serpents [the “infinite one” with seven heads] supports the whole universe with its mountains and w... Read more
Chapter 6 KUMBHAKA when we now speak of the various forms of kumbhaka you should not try to understand it all at once in the first few sentences. Everything that follows is so important that... Read more
PART TWO THE RIVER OF LIFE CHAPTER 5 THE PURIFICATION OF THE NADIS after the broad outline of the evolution of the whole organism through asanas given in Part One, we come to the vata elemen... Read more
