Step 7: Suryabhedana Kumbhaka (Breathing Technique)🔗

Technique

• 1. Continue to remain in Ardha Padmāsana.
• 2. Inhale through the right nostril.
• 3. Hold as long as you can.
• 4. Exhale as slowly as you can through the left nostril.
• 5. Repeat this Kumbhaka 21 times.

Āpta Pramāṇa - आप पम्ग Kumbhaka Paddhathih, Verse 126 & 127

नदिेृ-वर्््करर ब्ह-व्चनुसृबकमष|| च्वदषहूष-कण-चोगभ त्दषआिखषआग-कृख्गकमष ||१२६|| पनरनचत् चथेरमषून कुममून चेडच् तजेूष|| सनच्-भेद्ष-कुमो'चन पुिभ पुिर-षइमन चरेूष||१२७||

Dineśa-vartmnākṛṣya bāhya-vāyuṃ saśabdakam || Yāvad hṛt-kaṇṭha-Yogaḥ syād ānakh āgra-śikhāgrakam||126|| Pūrayitvā yatheṣam taṃ kumbhitaṃ ceḍayā tyajet || Sūrya-bhedākhya-kumbho'yaṃ punaḥ punar-imaṃ caret ||127||

Akashic Revelation

One should inhale the external air through the right nostril with sound, filling the throat to maximum capacity and exhale through Ida (left nostril), after holding the breath. This is Suryabhedan-Kumbhaka which should be practiced again and again.

ॐ पगन म् दभ पगन न्मदन पगन ््ागु म् दुणूे पगन त् पगन म् ्द्च पगन म् वे्वकृरू े॥ ॐ ृ्मपभ ृ्मपभ ृ्मपभ ॥ oṁ pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidaṁ pūrṇāt pūrṇamudacyate | pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāya pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate || || oṁ shānti shānti sāntiḥ

"From the space of Completion only Completion comes out. Even when Completion comes out, Completion remains as Completion. When the Completion goes back, Completion remains as Completion".