The secrets of sun gazing.
The sun holds fantastic powers for those who desire them. Light is the essential nutrient of all life, we just have to learn how to metabolize this light that in due course can help us evolve and free us from the chains of the mind.
The Thirteen Stages of Sun yoga as Uma Sankar exposes it are:
1) Conquer all material desires 2) Develop Divine Energy 3) Atma Darshan – Discovery of Atma (or soul)
4) Samadhi – 5) Conquer hunger 6) Conquer thirst 7) Conquer diseases 8) Paramahansa – Adjusting the mind to all situations 9) Having no enemies – as the practice goes on, all enemies will become friends (including animals) 10) Longevity (this happens when the body’s vibration becomes the same as the environments) 11) The body’s vibration and earth’s vibration will become equal 12) The body’s vibration and sun’s vibration will be equal 13) The body’s vibration and the vibration of the Universe (Supreme Soul) will be equal.
I was reading about Hira Ratan Manek a famous sun gazer that fasted for more than 400 days in front of many doctors and nurses.
You can read about this experiment below. www.solarhealing.comhttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/hira-ratan-manek-who-lived-on-water-and-sunlight-no-more/articleshow/90328855.cms
Surya Tatraka Technique
The technique described here is not to entice anyone to sun gaze, but just to help people that have been mislead.
The sun or your own conscious awareness, which is the same or equal to the sun, will empower you to take the right decision. The sun will in due course begin to guide you by affecting your molecular structure, the Sun will indeed talk to the atoms and and take your soul to mesmerizing realms of pure consciousness.
- This practice is not for everyone, it should not be done without the guidance of a competent teacher.
- Special attention should be paid to any side effects you feel and they should be addressed and shared with a competent teacher, that knows and has practice the practice.
- Your bare feet should be planted firmly on the ground, on soil, sand, concrete, rock, or even metal that is grounded, any surface that transmits electricity and serves as a ground will suffice, the first two options are the best.
- if you are seated cross-legged on the floor, place your hand’s palms down, with open fingers stretched on the ground.
- Concentrate on the center of your brain.
- This technique takes in consideration the colors of the sun as it sets and rises.
- Begin when the sun is of a reddish color (this is when the sun is the closest to the heroizing), here you can gaze from 1 to 2 minutes, if this is comfortable, advance every day 30 seconds, or less if that is what is required for your body.
- When the sun is of a deep orange color, you can advance 25 seconds a day.
- When it becomes clear orange, advance per day only 20 seconds.
- When dark yellow, proceed to only add 15 seconds a day.
- When light yellow continue advancing only 10 seconds a day.
- When the sun is higher and beyond the half an hour of the rising point, add only 5 seconds a day till you reach an hour.
- This way of advancing into the hour is not for everybody, you have to be very cautious, some people would reach 20 minutes and that would be just enough and for others even 2 hours won’t suffice. It all depends on how you feel. If you are cut off from your feelings, here is where the teacher comes in, to help you to feel for you, until you recover your lost intuition, nevertheless if the teacher is not intuitive, he might guide you incorrectly and this could be dangerous.
- At the end of each session, blink fast for another minute while you are gazing.
- Close your eyes and place your palms on on your eyes for a few minutes until all afterimages, if any, have disappeared.
- You may experience a strong sun image in yellow, for up to an hour if you overlook the suggested palming.
- You may feel an insignificant out of focus sensation for up to an hour.
- While covering your eyes, after the image disappears completely, do an infinite sign with your eyes, this is up to the right and down the right from here up to the left and down to the left, repeat this sequence until you eyes feel tired.
- After this, do Uddhiyana-Bandha and Nauli several times, concentrating your attention in the center of the brain, and try to make the energy of the Sun ascend to the Pineal gland.
Side effects
If you feel burning sensations during the whole day, keep sun gazing without advancing and stay in the lower colors. If you experience a dark or yellow spot in the center of your vision for more than an hour, or if straight lines become wavy, know that what you got is probably solar retinopathy and this is happening ether because you are very sensitive, have lower amounts of melanin in your eyes or because you overextended beyond your limits. In ether case at this juncture stop for a month and if you decide to continue, then stay with the lower colors of the sun and reduce your timing.
If it happens again stop altogether, that means that sun gazing is not for you and you are likely to develop macular degeneration. Do not worry, there are many other powerful yoga practices that you can choose and do. I repeat again, these instructions are not to entice anyone to practice, but just to help people already practicing, so they can compare their practice with this one.
I have to be redundant, be extremely cautious, sensitive and intuitive, since techniques are not written on stone, some people may need different things.
Some are at risk more then others, these include: – People who have had cataract surgery. This surgery causes a lose of the lens protective absorption of ultraviolet light and significantly exposes the macula . Most interlobular lens implants inserted during cataract surgery absorb ultraviolet light, but the effect and longevity of the block material is not known.
People with Xeroderma Pigmentosa have cells that cannot repair ultraviolet damage and should avoid ultraviolet exposure.
People with Retinitis Pigmentosa may be susceptible to ultraviolet light damage and should take extra precautions to protect their eyes.
People with psoriasis or vitiligo treated with Psoralen are particularly sensitive to ultraviolet light as a part of the therapy and should avoid sun exposure and take extra precautions to protect their eyes.
Certain jobs require extra eye precautions. For example mountaineers, sailors, skiers, fisherman, lifeguards, people who work in areas with concentrated UV or that work with electronics, computers, graphic arts and welders.
People who use tanning beds, should protect their eyes when in the booth.
Tri Bandha
While doing Nauli and Uddiana-bandha do also Mula Bandha (perineum contraction)
Mula means root, and the root that we are talking about here is the root of the spine, the pelvic floor or even more accurately, the core of the pelvic floor, the perineum. The perineum is the muscle located in the central point between the coccyx and the genitals.
Contract the pubococcygeus muscle, which begins at the pubic bone and ends at the coccyx, and redirects your prana into the higher centers of the body with your mind.
Mula Bandha is said to move prana into the central channel, called sushumna, which is the center of the spine.
Jalandhara Bandha
Bring your chin towards your chest and try to press it against it. The gastric fire, which is located in the region of Nabhi (navel), consumes the nectar which Sahasrara (crown chakra) exudes.
This Bandha prevents the nectar to fall and be consumed by the navel.
Uddiyana-Bandha
The Sanskrit word “Uddiyana” comes from the root ‘ut’ and ‘di’ which means to “fly up.” When this Bandha is skillfully mastered, the Prana flies through Sushumna Nadi.
Technique
Empty the lungs completely, contract and draw up the abdomen and bring the navel towards the spine by producing a vacuumed action, try to inhale but without letting air in, so that the abdomen rests alongside the back.
You can try also to block your nostrils and mouth and mimic an inhalation, here you will see how your abdomen concaves by itself.
This bandha should be practiced at the end of Kumbhaka and at beginning of the Rechaka.
When you practice this Bandha, the diaphragm, the muscular segment between the thoracic cavity and abdomen, is raised up and the abdominal muscles are pinched backwards. If you bend forwards and place your hand on your quadriceps or knees, you can effortlessly perform this exercise. Uddiyana Bandha is the first stage of Nauli Kriya. You should master Uddiyana Bandha if you want to practice Nauli Kriya.
Nauli Kriya
This kriya is usually done in a standing position.
Since you are redirecting the sexual fire and not repressing it, this exercise can help the practitioner with Brahmacharya. Nauli Kriya makes the practitioner healthy, vigorous and it confers vitality to the entire system. When combined with other Nauly techniques, it is a powerful gastro-intestinal stimulant. It battles constipation, weak peristalsis and many other disorders of the digestive system.
Madhyama Nauli
While standing, keep your feet approximately 12 inches apart. Bend forward, and with your hands on your thighs, perform Uddiyana Bandha.
Now free the center of the abdomen by contracting the muscles on the left and right side of the abdomen, and by tilting the coccyx up towards the navel. You will find that all your abdominal muscles are aligned in the center in a vertical line.
Vama Nauli
After having mastered Madhyama Nauli, Vama Nauli will be an easy variation. Contract the right side of the abdomen and allow the left side to remain relaxed and without contractions. Bend and twist a little to the right side.
Only have the muscles on the right side contracted.
Dakshina Nauli
Dakshina Nauli is the balancer for Vama Nauli. Contract the muscles on the left side and allow the right side to remain relaxed. Slightly bend and twist towards the left side. Only have the muscles on the left side contracted.
Nauli Kriya
This practice will eventually awaken Kundalini, and make it rise up through the center of the spine until it reaches the brain.
To perform Nauli Kriya start by doing Uddiyana Bandha. Then, separate the center, as in Madhyama Nauli, and contract the muscles on the right side, as in Vama Nauli, and then contract the left side, as in Dakshina Nauli, let your abdominal muscles move in a circular motion. Do this several times from right to left, and then do it in reverse, from left to right.
Beginners may feel a slight pain in the abdomen in the first two or three attempts, but as long as the pain is not intense it should not be a matter for concern.
After a week of short daily periods of practice, the discomfort should fade away.
In case of intense pain or discomfort, drop the practice, and consult a professional yoga teacher before resuming the practice.