Six Years to Levitate🔗

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM recounts what his experience and training with levitation was like. He shares how it took him six years of training with his yoga guru to levitate, and the subtle processes he went through for perfecting the science of levitation.

For Yogananda Puri it took six years for him to make me levitate. He would make me inhale and hold. Inhale and holding is called Kumbhaka. Then he would remove the beds. I had to remain in that space for sixty seconds, and the floor beneath was hard cement floor. Then my landing would be slow because I know, if not, my back would break. Your balanced samana will make you land on the ground slowly.

He was sitting on a wooden plank. I was sitting on some four, five pillows because he was trying to make me levitate. That's the way he would do it. He would put some four, five pillows and a bed. I had to sit on that and continuously do the pranayam. Once I had intensely done the pranayam and stabilized, he would remove the pillows one by one. I had to remain in the air. That is the way he taught levitation.

If I was going down when he removed the pillow, he would stop and ask me to do more pranayama and kumbhaka. Then after he removed all the pillows, if I was stable in the air, he would get his pet dog to sit under me. That fellow will be sitting under me so I would have to be holding on to that air. I cannot release. I will have to completely lock the kumbhaka because if I released I would fall on the ground and I will fall on that fellow and that fellow would bite me.

So I will have to be just holding on or even if I land, I have to land in a very slow way. Very slowly in a very subtle way I had to release the air not even through the nose. I had to release the air through the kurma nadi. This means such sensitive prana; through the middle fingers I had to release the air, only then I could land very smoothly. If you release the air through the nostril itself you will just fall because nostril is too big a hole. So that has to be locked. The releasing has to happen through the kurma nadi. I had to balance and land on the dog so that he wouldn't bite me.