Mental Peace & meditation

[Guest guest]

Dear beirut_ka_baba,

 

further to this, can u tell me how long we should do

this pranayama before meditation. i do about 20

minutes of meditation in the morning and evening.

By this practise u mean to breath slow. I have read

somewhere that when we breath slow, our prana

increases. but i didnt understand that. Please throw

more light on this.

 

sorry i straight away started this email.Im a member

for sometime but never wrote a mail. Im Balaji from

bangalore, India. Im interested in meditation.

 

Regards,

Balaji

[Guest guest]

, Balaji Muthukrishnan

<raja_balaji> wrote:

>

> Dear beirut_ka_baba,

>

> further to this, can u tell me how long we should do

 

 

Yes we can fix it on 21 times or 31 times. But it should be

fixed not changed later on. only the time will increase slowly and

finally when u reach at 30 count you would be acutally taking one

minute for a breathe making it 31 minutes total.

 

If we go a little deeper into this technique, we will know how

it works. As i told earlier, all our tensions crop up due to

imbalance of gunas. Surprisingly, even others giving us tensions

are mainly due to our own disturbances of gunas.

 

That is the main cause of unrest. Instead of correcting our guna

balance, we try to correct others and we gain nothing.

 

Left nostril denotes Tamoguna and right nostril denotes Rajoguna

and equilibrium of both denotes Satoguna. When we inhale from left,

we intake prana mixed with Tam and when we inhale from right, we

intake Rajoguna. The type of prana inhaled energies the same type of

vrittis to surface. So by balancing the energies we intake, we

control the vrittis coming out of our sub=-conscious. If our

satoguna prevails, it will not let bad vrittis come out, and even if

they come out they become weak, and can not harm us to their full

potential. They give their bad results, either affecting our

stomach or skin or showing us a horrible dream and then they die. So

any such symptom should be taken as a positive sign of progress.

 

Just 3 months of practice, and we can find how effective this

pranayam is. Acharya Ram Dev the great yogi of todays, has laid a

lot of stress on this pranayama. This pranayama is not harmful in

anyway and does not need a guru to teach you.

 

Hari Aum

[Guest guest]

thanks for the reply.

30 minutes before meditation is a little long time

may be ill get used to once i start practising.

Ill try to implement this.

If im right in understanding vrittis to be karmas,

then this practise is a great way to nullify (or

overpower) bad karmas.

Once again thanks for explanation.

[Guest guest]

Thats an interesting subject.

 

"That is the main cause of unrest. Instead of correcting our guna

balance, we try to correct others and we gain nothing."

 

So the way we act or react in certain situations and the way we feel

towards the attitude of others is related to our guna-imbalance?

 

"Left nostril denotes Tamoguna and right nostril denotes Rajoguna

and equilibrium of both denotes Satoguna. When we inhale from left,

we intake prana mixed with Tam and when we inhale from right, we

intake Rajoguna."

 

The left nadi (ida) is related to the negative prana, the female

energy, the moon energy or the yin. The right one (pingala) is related

to the male energy, the positive, yang or sun energy. But I had never

before related them to the gunas. This comparison is very interesting.

Could we associate the nadis to another pair of opposites?

 

 

"30 minutes before meditation is a little long time :)"

 

I think our friend meant 10 minutes spending in pranayama and the rest

20 of your meditation equals 30? I also didnt get it. I dont think one

should wait 30 min after the pranayama to start meditation or japa. 5

min break should be enough. What do you think?