Where Yogic Breathing Techniques Lead Us to

Higher state of consciousness


 

This text is a continuation of the texts on Pranayama. These yogic breathing techniques lead us to a state where our sense of time has changed, to a condition called Sahaja Samadhi, a natural transcendence.

 

In a state of natural transcendence where time is experienced differently than in a common state of consciousness, everything we do is done without stress because stress, or better our sense of stress, is related to time, or better our sense of time. Pranayama leads to transcendence from within. It is an experience that is far from material nature.

The regular and long practice of pranayama awakens Anahata Nada as the inner sounds, the sounds of the heart chakra, the sounds of the soul.

The heart chakra is the connection between the inner and outer worlds of the finest energy.

Listening to Anahata Nada sounds, which are mostly heard in the back of the head, one should be focused on the mind and not on the sound.

In the state in which contact with the finest energy of the heart chakra is established, one should not explore the sources and nature of the sound but should surrender completely to them with no doubt and fear. Practice in this state itself becomes a natural curiosity but without any reasoning.

This practice leads further to the state of Sahaja Samadhi, a natural transcendence. It is the spontaneous transcendence of the spirit, time, heart, soul and higher Self.

This achievement will look like a “double life” because one who has experienced it at the same time will perform its daily activities and live its naturally realized “born again” inner life. Such a person lives fully aware of both lives, internal and external.

People who have experienced spontaneous unification are called sahaja siddhas or “realized souls” in Yoga. Such persons may seem to others as stupid, cold or selfish people of strange behavior which is just a normal pattern of reasoning for the average, untransformed mind, because when the mind, still at the beginning of its path of transformation, encounters something it does not understand, it scares. The shortest way for a beginner to get rid of a fear is to reject what is unfamiliar to him.

The ego of those persons who experienced Sahaja Samadhi, natural transcendence, is separated and their hearts are pure compassionate reflexions of all other people and things in their most natural appearance and without any divisions, especially those made in mind whether religious, political, national or any other nature.

People like these, realized souls or siddhas, view the world with different eyes.

For this reason such people may seem abnormal, although in society, anyone whose behavior or worldview does not fit into the mass is always declared abnormal, if not insane.

Further, the methods and practices of asana and pranayama bring the stirring waters of the mind to complete and fruitful peace. Knowledge of both methods of Hatha Yoga on a sublime, masterful level leads to the transformation of consciousness no matter in what environment and in what situations such a connoisseur finds himself.

sahaja samadhi natural transcendence

Transcendence from within is a kind of peace of mind in which a change in the movement of the brain waves has already occurred.

Yoga Sutra 2.53:

„The mind gains the power of concentration“

However, before reaching a state of complete concentration one goes through another state, which is the state of the withdrawal of the senses or in the science of Yoga called the state of Pratyahara.