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Step 2: Breathing Technique - Naga Kumbhaka

ओदि-ग्सवदष-व्चनुकणथेि्पनरचेचष-छिैण ून र्वचेदष- चथ्क्लन बध् ज्लनरन दढमषकणेि रेचिन कुच््िष-िषअग- कुमण कृव्नदूण ्वुन जचेूषनपप्स्न च फलमष-अत सम्परूमष

Odana-grāsavad-vāyuṃ kaṇthenāpūrayec chanaiḥ Taṃ rodhayed-yathākālaṃ badhvā jālandharaṃ dṛḍham ||77

Kaṇṭhena recanaṃ kuryān-n aga kumbhaḥ śivoditaḥ Kṣudhaṃ jayet pipāsāṃ ca phalam-asya samīritam ||78

Akashic Revelation

One should swallow the air slowly into the throat like a morsel of rice, retaining it to the capacity, with firm application of Jalandhara-bandha and then expel it from the throat. This is Naga Kumbhaka explained by Shiva. By this practice one is able to control hunger thirst

Technique

  • 1. Remaining in Siddhāsana, swallow air very slowly and let the air go little by little like eating rice morsel by morsel.
  • 2. One you are full, contract the chin on the chest. Hold the breath as longa s you can.
  • 3. Then slowly exhale through the mouth.
  • 4. Repeat this Kumbhaka 21 times.