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…ne dominant thought in my brain was: “That is it,” 2e, Dhyana. The characteristic perspiration which marks the first stage of success in Pranayama possesses the odour, September taste, colour, and almost the consistency of semen. 11th. 6.25-6.45 Pranayama. Fifteen minutes. 10. 20. 30. No perspira- am.am. tion. 10.30-10.45 Pranayama. Twelve minutes: 10. 20, 30. am. am. Pranayama. Eight minutes: 10, 20. 30. 6.0-6.30 With great effort. p.m. p.m. Cannot do Pranayama 30. 60. 15. more than once through, I tried twice, Dhéarana on nose ten minutes, IL…
1910 · PDF PAGE 178
…2 a.m. a.m. 8.30-9.0 am. a.m. 10.45-11.20 am, am, 4.36-5.8 p.m. p.m, 7.45-8.5 p.m. p.m. 8.40-9.23 p.m. p.m, THE EQUINOX Two practices of Pranayama: 30. 15. 60. Concentration on Ajna Chakkra. The effect was as of light gradually glimmering forth and becoming very bright. Tried drinking through nose; * but could not accomplish it properly. Tried Dharana on Nose as Ida was stopped up. Eyes watered, and the breathing was difficult, could not concentrate, Pranayama. Twenty-two minutes: 10. 20, 30. Could have gone on. Pranayama very difficult. Dharan…
1910 · PDF PAGE 176
…sses being simultaneous. This seems absurdand inexplicable, it is noted in Buddhist Psychology, yet J know it. September gth. 9.50-10.20 Pranayama. Ten minutes 5. 10. 20; 4 minutes 10. 25. 30; am. am. 6 minutes 10. 25. 30. Looking at the light at the top of my head. It was of a misty blue colour, its shape was that of an ordinary cone of flame, long and homogeneous. At intervals it dropped and opened out like a flower, its texture was that of fine hair, Méitrananda told me that this result was very good, and that these petals are of the Ajna Ch…
1910 · PDF PAGE 179
…ashi.” Results similar to last night’s, somewhat more easily obtained. Mental Muttering of “Aum Shivayavashi.” Result better than usual. Pranayama. Seven minutes after 10 seconds of Kumbhaka. This seventh time I forgot all about everything and breathed out of both nostrils. Quite quietly—pure mental abstraction. Mental Muttering of “ Aum Shivayavashi,” for seventy-five minutes. Several times lost concentration or consciousness or something, z.z., either vision or voice or both were interrupted. (N.B. At one particular vaée the third eye throbs …
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
…UINOX BEGIN. END OBJECT. TIME. NO. OF BREAKS. [Difficult to set the sound Hyperaesthesia. Began to forget Mantra.]* 10.12} p.m. 1019p.m. Pranayama 6m. 30s. Very hard. [The smallest quantity of food injures one’s power immensely.] 10.21 pm. 10.44pm. Ajna 23 m, 20 breaks, [Used cotton wool in ears.] Thoughts of Ajna go obliquely up (from opening of pharynx about) and direct horizontally forward. This gives an idea to chase consciousness, ze, find by the obvious series of experiments the spot in which the thoughts dwell. Probably however this move…
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
…onger on closing ears. (For a short time I distinctly saw the head of a nun in the centre of the Chakkra.) Fifty-two Suddhi-Kumbhakas or Pranayamas. 5. ro. 20 for 30 minutes. 10, 15. 30 for 6 minutes. Pranayama. 5. 10. 20 for 31 minutes without any breaks. Dharana on the Shiva Pantacle given me by Maitrananda Swami, mentally muttering “Aum Shivaya Vashi.” * Nothing particular occurred, though (were I not fixed in the know- ledge of the vanity of physiological tests) I should judge my weight had diminishedt The A’sana gave no pain till I moved. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 114
…i Chalana mentioned the practice of Kumbhaka or the retention of breath. Such an exercise therefore partially falls under the heading of Pranayama. It is a well-known physiological fact that the respiratory system, more so than any other, controls the motions of the body. Without food or drink we can subsist many days, but stop a man’s breathing but for a few minutes and life becomes extinct.* The air oxydises the blood, and it is the clean red blood which supports in health the tissues, nerves, and brain. When we are agitated our breath comes …
1910 · PDF PAGE 182
THE EQUINOX October Pranayama. Thirty-five minutes. 10. 20, 30, A’sana 3rd. 12.20.a.m. terrible. 10-11.30 Walk with Mantra, am, a.m. 11.30-12-41 A’sana. Always with Mantra and Ajna. am. am. Pranayama. Eighteen minutes. 10. 20. 30. 1.50-2.30 Dharana. Got very tired and lay down till 3.35 (not sleep- p.m.p.m. ing) then resumed A’sana till 5.5 p.m. Now again at last the Golden Dawn. This, as my intuition had already taught me, had the effect of slowing the Dhyana and also keeping me fixed therein. Yet, I fear, of partially destroying its perfec- t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 115
… OF SOLOMON THE KING Kumbhaka is also of two kinds—Sahita and Kevala. The Sahita is of two sorts, the first resembling the first kind of Pranayama, namely Rechaka Kumbhaka Puraka; the second resembling the second kind of Pranayama, namely Puraka Kumbhaka Rechaka. The Sahita should be practised till the Prana enters the Sushumna, which is known by a peculiar sound* being produced in the Sushumné4; after which the Kevala Kumbhaka should be practised. This Kumbhaka is described in the “ Hatha-Yoga Pradipika” as follows: When this Kumbhaka has been…
1910 · PDF PAGE 197
…ND. OBJECT. TIME, NO. OF BREAKS. 10.58 am, II. am. White tri- 3m. 5 breaks. angle [I am in very bad state—nearly a// breaks!—do a little Pranayama to steady me.] Ilioam. .1.15$a.m. White tri- 5m. 30s. 4 breaks. angle [Sneezed: totally forgot what I was doing. When I reflected, time as above.] 9.45 a.m. 9.584a.m. White tri- 13m.30s. 20 breaks. angle 1025am. 1057}am. Ajna 32m. 308s. 20 breaks. [With Mantra. Throbbing at once. “Invaders” nearly all irrational. Strong sub-current of swift thought noted. Quite the old times! Excel- lent: I require l…
1910 · PDF PAGE 112
THE EQUINOX called Pranayama. And thus it is that we find the Yogi saying that he who can control the Prana can control the Universe. To the perfect man there can be nothing in nature that is not under his control. If he orders the gods to come, they will come at his bidding. . . . All the forces of nature will obey him as his slaves, and when the ignorant see these powers of the Yogi, they call them miracles.* PRANAYAMA The two nerve currents Pingala and Ida correspond to the sensory and motor nerves, one is afferent and the other efferent. Th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 168
…rning which Maitrananda said to me: “Listen not to that Great and terrible Voice: but penetrate and hear the subtle soul thereof.” 13th, Pranayama: Five cycles § minutes 15 seconds. Mantra (N.S.N.A.) t Half an hour. Ears begin to sing at about the twentieth minute. Towards the end I heard a soft sound as of a silver tube being struck very gently with a soft mallet. These sounds are known as the Voice of the Nada, and are a sure sign that progress is being made. They, as already mentioned, are the mystical inner sounds which proceed from the Ana…
1910 · PDF PAGE 180
…nd hardly any physical result. I must be most resistant to this drug, which I had never previously taken). Recovering from the Laudanum. Pranayama and Dharana hopeless.* Another month of this great work commences, and though the toil has not been wasted the reward indeed seems still far off. On the first of the month P. writes:— “Blessed be thou, O Bhavani, O Isis my Sister, my Bride, my Mother! Blessed be Thou, O Shiva, O Amoun, Concealed of the Concealed. By Thy most secret and Holy Name of Apophis be Thou blessed, Lucifer, Star of the Dawn, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 210
… not. The physician administers it, and even if the patient be a most hostile Christian Scientist, the result is certain. Similarly with Pranayama, the Guru gives his chela a certain exercise, and as surely as the Calomel voided the noxious matter from the intestines of the sufferer, so will the Pranayama void the capricious thoughts from the mind of the disciple. + By discovery here we mean individual experiment resulting in personal discovery; another person’s discovery only begets illusion and comment. Individual discovery is the only true d…
1910 · PDF PAGE 181
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Normal amount of sleep. Speech only when necessary. Pranayama, A’sana with eyes turned up. October Walking as exercise. 2nd. 8.30 a.m. Mantra “Aum Tat Sat Aum.” 9.10-10.50 A’sana with Mantra and eyes turned to Ajna Chakkra. am. am. Chittam distinctly slowing towards end. 10.50-12.5 Continued lying down, [Did I sleep ?] am. p.m, 12.35-1.45 For a walk muttering Mantra. p.m. p.m. 2.20-2.45 A’sana. Always forgetting to repeat the Mantra, Maitra- p-m.p.m, nandra Swami says this is right. Ajna is now more steely in appe…
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
…e nose with un- wandering gaze. When these postures have been in some way mastered, the aspirant must combine with them the exercises of Pranayama, which will by degrees purify the Nadi or nerve- centres. These NAdis, which are usually set down as numbering 72,000,* ramify from the heart outwards in the pericardium; the three chief are the Ida, Pingala and Sushumna,7+- the last of which is called “the most highly beloved of the Yogis.” Besides practising Pranayama he should also perform one * Besides the 72,000 nerves or veins there are often 1…
1910 · PDF PAGE 158
…hief, then incline to it, lead up towards it, are as so many slopes up the side of the mountain of medita- tion.”* Just as Yama, Niyama, Pranayama, Pratydhara, Dharana and DhyAna are of Samadhi. Further Nagasena says “Cultivate in yourselves O Bhikkhus, the habit of medi- tation. He who is established therein knows things as they really are.”+ Under Faith, is classed Tranquillization (Sampasadana) and * “The Questions of King Milinda,” ii, 1, 7, 9, 13. t Lbid, 13. 142
1910 · PDF PAGE 109
…ndalini) by taking hold of its tail... As a special form of Kumbhaka is mentioned, most prob- ably this Mudra is but one of the numerous Pranayama practices, which we shall deal with shortly. 11. The Vajroli-Mudra. In the “Shiva Sanhita” § there is a long account of this Mudra in which the God says: “It is the most secret of all * “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 62; “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. iv, 45-47. Again this is the union of Shiva and Shakti, and that of the solar and lunar Pingala and Ida by means of the Sushumna—the path of the gods. + “Shiva San…
1910 · PDF PAGE 322
…to cut her some flowers, looking at her all the while, already feeling strange and new sensa- tions, sweating in an uncontrolled Sukshma-Pranayama. Alack-a-day, fellows! That was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. She stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. Had he known of OUR LADY HECATE, (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully look upon us!) he would have considered his vision to be a visit of the great Goddess (her name be rapidly uttered in the Vault of our beloved Brethren the Ka D Sh…
1910 · PDF PAGE 154
…ne with the Prana or Atman is to enter NibbAna, and as the means which lead to the former consisted of concentra- tion exercises such as Pranayama, etc.; so now shall we find almost identical exercises used to hasten the Aspirant into Nibbana. Frater P. by now was well acquainted with the Yoga Philosophy, further he was beginning to feel that the crude Animism employed by many of its expounders scarcely tallied with his attainments. The nearer he approached the Atman the less did it appear to him to resemble what he had been 138