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Anando Ham - practicing from Auckland

The practice of Nābhi Mudrā awakens energy to reach Saccidānanda.

Begin by feeling the resonance of Oṃ Nāda to purify negativity. Warm the feet by rubbing them with the hands. Assume the posture: place the left foot under the thigh and the right foot upon the thigh. Join the palms and foot soles, touching all fingers and toes. Concentrate on the navel, the seat of fire and sun. This gathers unknown negative energies and releases tensions, bringing harmony. The technique channels energy from the foot soles and palms to the navel. This awakens a beautiful feeling like the sun, opening the lotus at the navel. From this truth and pure consciousness arises the supreme bliss of Saccidānanda.

"Concentrate on the navel. Just leave your palms and your foot soles. Just touch together and relax."

"From the navel, the truth, sat-cit. And that’s our consciousness. Our consciousness is completely clean."

We shall begin with that sound, with the resonance. Feel the resonance throughout the entire body for the purification of all negativity, depression. Any difficulties should be released with this resonance, which we will do with Oṃ Nāda. Now, with your hands, rub your feet without socks. Make your feet warm with your hands, rubbing, rubbing, rubbing. Then, make the mudrā. This mudrā is like this: First, place the left foot down under the thigh, but bring it out enough so you can touch it with your hand, yes, at this distance. This is number one. Second, place your right foot up on the thigh, near the knee. Now, you have your palms and your feet together. Look, both in this way. Make yourself comfortable in this position, very good. If you cannot come so far, you can do it until here. Or you can go like this, or a little more, but like a ḍholak, yes? So now, from the touching of the toes and fingers, palms and foot soles, let us concentrate on the navel. The nābhi is the sūrya, that is the fire, agni, and agni is the sūrya. In this, we are trying to gather all negative energy and the unknown kind—what you cannot know, you don't know—and you are using all your energy but you don't know how to do it or what for. So this is for us. It is in the yoga, in daily life, in the human body, in our kuṇḍalinī system. This goes together at the same time: rhythms, Oṃ. Go ahead, again, again, listen. Clockwise, not like this. On our foothold, and it's going like this, okay? And this goes directly to the navel. With this comes harmony, peace, and the release of all different kinds of tensions. You will see that in India, many people who are sitting, especially the Brahmins, and who are doing the ceremonies, they are sitting like this. One is holding like this. One is holding like this. Or when they are nervous, they are moving here in this spot. So, okay? But not like this, but like this. And concentrate on the navel, nābhi. With this, the resonance depends. You can have it like this, or you can go like this, but your hand, and of course your foot, should be cleaned nicely. Go ahead, again. Sit straight. Concentrate on the navel. Just leave your palms and your foot soles. Just touch together and relax. Hold, hold your palms and foot soles, touching the navel when this tension is not going on, sorrows are not going on. Again, we will bring this technique. Many ṛṣis, many, many ṛṣis, where in this mudrā means in sitting posture. Now, touch all four fingers and four toes, and your thumbs. And now you said, "Bring slowly, look to me first, like these two fingers, five fingers, and this is a foot sole." We are taking from this all top slowly and coming to the center of our palm, and there, in the middle. In that, you will see a very beautiful sign there. Similarly, when we slowly look, you cannot imagine how much energy will come into the body. We will always be in the navel, and slowly, not quickly. Don’t hurry. And you can concentrate and feel yourself, Ānandaham. There is a bhajan, you know the song? Ānandoham Ānando Ānandam Brahmānandam Ānandoham Ānando Ānandam Brahmānandam. It is said, ānandoham. Ānanda means the divine, merciful, happiness. Ānanda. Ānandoham. I am the ānanda. I am the happiness. Ānandoham. Ānandoham. Ānandam. Brahmanandam. That happiness comes through my foot soles, the middle of the foot, and through my fingers in my palm. Coming to the nābhi, Brahmaloka in the sahasrāra, in the science of yoga and cakras, in the hidden powers in humans. You will get these techniques, and this has been—Holy Gurujī gave me—it was in 1978, 1968, 1968. Holy Gurujī was giving this technique. Again, but I see many of you are not doing it right. All five fingers, meaning the four fingers and the thumb, and all the toes, the fifth and the fifth, touch them, and then you are coming like this on this middle point. When you come to the hill, then on the hill you will lose all power. There is another one, that will be called Vajra. The Vajranāḍī from there to here. That we will have the different other side. So, all the small fingers, small toes, ring fingers—those are the toes. So we are taking like this and here, but very slowly like this, and then awakening exactly here on this part, here on this side. At that time, what we are still bringing, we are opening that energy, that power which is going there for us. Okay. Ānandam, Ānandam,... Ānandam You sit near the water, and there is a fish. Now, how can we do it? Even if we come close, nearer, the fish will run away. We touch the water, and the fish will swim away. But we make slowly, slowly, slowly. That far that you touch, that fish will not know if there is some touch on it. Then, that nābhi, you will see, there will awake something beautiful, a beautiful feeling that is like a sūrya, the sun. But this is here, therefore this is called the sūrya, the agni, agni, and agni is in the navel, okay? So where is gently? Likely, not likely. And if you go likely with your nails, but otherwise, after a few times, you don’t know. Ānandam, Ānandam,... Ānandam Posture, if you want, or you can remain as it is. But then we are coming to our life in this. Then that is like the opening of the kamal phūl. This is a kamal, and it is kamalful. It opens very gently. And that will go from the navel, that opens from here. This is written in many scriptures that the navel is there from which Viṣṇu emerges. Vishnu is in the water, down at the bottom of the water. And above is the energy of the sun, which is opening in our chakra of the nābhi, the navel. And that we call kamal. And there, when from that it goes, energy, energy, there is nothing else. It should open, and you feel your ears. It will come in the other third step, and there it will also be a very gentle feeling. So, from the foot toes, foot soles, palms. After that, from the nābhi, we will take, coming to the other step, and there, you know, we are like touching, just very gentle, very gentle, and that from the nābhi, we brought, you have awoken, you have awoken this maṇi cakra, but that is that lotus, and from this lotus we go down. Sat Chit Ānanda. Therefore, say, Sat means the truth. From the navel, the truth, sat-cit. And that’s our consciousness. Our consciousness is completely clean. No desires, no anything else. You have it in thyself. And that you will be all the time. Only this, your touch, will give you that which is inside the touch. That’s called sat and chit. Chit means consciousness. Within that, chit, chit, ānanda. Then it’s called ānanda. Ananda is of two kinds. One is called happiness, joy. But that is beyond Satchitānanda. That time means that consciousness is within, above there. This is in one of the bhajans of Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī’s rites, very nice, in his cakras. Chetan kā chilka Swāmī ne dikhāla diyā Devpurī. So what I am giving you all, it is that from our paramparā of avarṣa we are on that path. So, before we were, which one was? Here we are touching. Ānanda, Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, and Nābhi. So, Ānanda, Ānanda, Ānandam Brahmanandam. This is in Nābhi, there. So we awake from Kuṇḍalinī, that from Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, and Maṇipūra. These are the two chakras with ānanda, happiness, joy, feelings. But if you are only within this, then you remain on your body only. But when it goes further, then anandoham, anandoham. And then sat-cit-ānandam. Sat Chit Ānanda. Sat is truth, Chit is consciousness, and Ānanda is the Supreme, the Highest Bliss. Ānandam, Ānandam,... Ānandam Sat Chit Ānandam, Sat Chit Ānandam... Satchidānandam, Satchidānandam,... Satchidānandam. Chitta means the truth. Chitta means the consciousness. And Ānanda means the supreme bliss. Below that are our feelings, our joys, our desires. That is an immense awakening in our body too. But, okay, but if you can take that energy in that farther, otherwise you can lose this side and that side and that side, so we are somewhere in the lost. So, do you understand what I mean? Very good. So Brahmā, Sattva, Citta, Ānanda. So again, come to your toes and fingers, and slowly feel and touch your foot soles. If you come on the heel, then you will lose everything. Because that is what is called Vajra. The Vajra is very hard. It will not let you go there quickly, so here is gentle. Om Sat Chit Ānanda Om Sat Chit Ānanda Om Sat Chit Ānanda... Brahma, I am enjoying, I am in joy, I am love, feeling the whole body, my everything. Who am I? Where in my body? Sat, Om, Sat, Om, Sat, Ānandoham, Ānandoham,... Brahma, Brahma,... Brahma, though I have my feelings and joy, within me is that Brahman, that Brahman. Om Saccidānanda Om Saccidānanda... Om Satchidānanda Om Satchidānand Om Satchidānand... So, the Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Maṇipūra, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, Ājñā, and the complete further. This is in that way of Mahāprabhujī’s beautiful bhajan about this. And that is what Mahāprabhujī’s bhajan is, that is what we call Yoga Nidrā. And Yoga Nidrā, Mahāprabhujī’s book, he has written, that time I was not there, not born. That is the Agni, what we call Nidrā. So, that is this: try to do awakening our feelings. We have to fill all our energies and purify them through your consciousness and through your purification from that. Otherwise, again we are somewhere, and so when we awake this through our bhajan, these melodies, and all this opening, there are two centers: the foot soles, and the fingers and palms. So, very nice. When someone has tensions like this, just sit down and feel this. The whole tension will go away. That’s it. Just like this. A few minutes. As gentle, also when we are touching like this, our fingers are like above our skin. There is another form, this is in yoga, which I, this line I’m telling you is from Ṛṣimunis. And that same thing which I told you here, touching in the foot sole, in the middle. Similarly, in the middle of your palm. And there is one finger, any one finger, or the middle finger. And very, very gentle touch, not too much up from here. Suddenly, it will be like a stone in your hand. Yes, like this. And at that time, close your eyes and go there. It’s like a stone in your face, and you are rolling on it. And that means all our punch energy flows through this, coming to the middle of the palm and the middle of the foot sole. This is very just, and if you are touching too much, it is gone. If you do it quickly, it is gone. It is gentle, only this. And then, after, you can do all four fingers. But if you go like this, then it’s only that you are taking the cream in your hand. So, not a cream, but this catching energy awakening, energy coming out of this.

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