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Svātmārāma, Haṭha Yōga Pradīpikā (~15th c), notes 1.57-63 how to live life of a brahmacārī: steady practice... eat pure, simple, slightly sweet foods in moderate amounts… 1.16 practice āsana, , mudrā, and nāda. ahimsā (non-harming) (austerity/heat) ṣatkarma prānāyāma () santoṣa (contentment) asteya (non-stealing) āstikya (faith) 2.7-9 nāḍi śodhana (channel cleansing) 2.40 restrain prāna in suśumna (continence) dāna (generosity) gaze in śambhavi kśamā () iśvara-pujana (worship) 2.24 (internal cleansing) prāna in suśumna, leads to dhṛtiḥ (endurance) siddhānta-vākya-śravaṇa (study) 2.26 (enema) 2.42 manonmanī (no thought) dayā () hrī (remorse at wrongdoing) 2.29 (nasal cleansing) (humility) matī (intellect) 2.31 trataka (steady gazing) 2.45 jalandhara after IN mitahāra (moderate diet) ( repetition) 2.33 (abdominal churning) uddiyāna bandha with EX 2.35 kapālabhati (skull shining) 2.46 with 3 bandha engaged, śauca (cleanliness) hutam/yajña (sacrifce) 2.38 gaja karani (vomiting) prāna enters nāḍi 2.47 lift āpāna, lower prāna āsana kumbhaka (prānāyāma) 1.19 svastikāsana (ankles crossed) 1.35 siddhāsana (’s) 1.20 gomukhāsana (cow face) also called vajrāsana, 2.48-50 bheda (sun-piercing) -- IN R, hold, long EX L 1.21 vīrāsana (hero) muktāsana, guptāsana [candra bheda (moon-piercing) -- IN L, hold, EX R (not in HYP)] 1.22 kūrmāsana (tortoise) 2.51-53 (victorious) 1.23 kukkutāsana (rooster) 1.44-47 padmāsana (lotus) 2.54 sītkari (hissing [teeth]) 1.24 uttānakūrmāsana (reclining 2.57-58 śītalī (cooling [tongue]) tortoise) 1.48 focused on , join prāna 2.59-67 bhastrikā (bellows) -- bhastrikā pierces granthi (3 knots) 1.25 dhanurāsana (bow) and āpāna while holding bandha 2.68 brahmāri (bee) 1.26 matsyendrāsana (’s to awaken kuṇḍalinī śakti 2.69 mūrccha (swooning) pose) 2.70 plāvinī (gulping) 1.28 paschimottanāsana (“west side”) 1.50-52 siṃhāsana (lion) 1.30 mayūrāsana (peacock) 1.53-54 bhadrāsana (gracious) 2.71-77 sahita kumbhaka (breath retention) 1.32 śavāsana (corpse) also called gorakśāsana kevala kumbhaka (spontaneous retention)

HYP notes | sean feit | nadalila.org 2015 mudrā + bandha samādhi...

3.10-18 mahā mudrā (great seal) 4.42-47 khecarī mudrā as doorway to laya 3.19-24 mahā bandha (great bond), w/ śambhāvi mudrā (midbrow gaze) 4.48 turya (“the fourth” state, after waking, dreaming, & deep sleep) 3.26-29 mahā vedha mudrā (great piercing seal) 4.53 fll the body with amṛta (nectar) 3.32-54 khecarī mudrā (space walking seal) 4.54-55 samādhi focused on ātma (self) as Brahmā (divine) 4.56-59 all is empty, full inside+out, thought abandoned, no 3.55-60 uddiyāna bandha (upward fying bond) 4.60 all is mind, knower+known are lost 3.62-69 mūla bandha (root bond), forces kuṇḍalinī into brahma nāḍi 4.61 all is mind, unmanī (non-thinking) ends duality 3.70-75 jālandhara bandha (throat bond) 4.62 objects gone, mind dissolves, kaivalya (“independence”)

3.78-82 viparīta karanī mudrā (inversion) nāda 3.83-91 vajrolī mudrā ( retention/sublimation [men]) 3.92-95 sahajoli mudrā ( retention/sublimation [women]) 4.64-66 nāda anusandhana ( on subtle sound) OR spreading ash on the body after maithuna (sex) 4.67 in siddhāsana & śambhāvi mudrā, listen for sound in R ear 3.96-97 amarolī mudrā (drinking urine) 4.68 plugging ears, nose, mouth (śanmukhi mudrā), listen for sound in suśumna nāḍi kuṇḍalinī 4.70-71 arambha avasthā (beginning stage) 3.104-111 on kuṇḍalinī & nāḍi brahma granthi (at mūlādhāra) is pierced 3.112 śakti calana mudrā (circulating energy: IN down F, EX up B) 4.72-73 ghata avasthā (vessel stage), śakti in suśumna 3.113-120 engage mūla bandha, squeezing kanda (bulb), do bhastrikā viṣnu granthi (at ) is pierced 3.117 thus forcing [haṭha] kuṇḍalinī into suśumna nāḍi 4.74-75 paricaya avasthā (increasing stage) kuṇḍalinī at viśuddhi 4.76 niṣpatti avasthā (completion stage) samādhi granthi (at ajña) is pierced 4.1-35 raising kuṇḍalinī through suśumna nāḍi to brahmarandhra leads to experience of śunya (emptiness/void), or laya (dissolution) 4.81-102 details the process of deepening in nāda anusandhana 4.36-39 śambhāvi mudrā (midbrow gaze, “seal of Śambho”) 4.103 haṭha and laya yoga lead to , which is samādhi 4.41 nasikagra dṛṣti (nose-tip gaze), till jyoti (subtle light) appears 4.105-112 samādhi is mukti (liberation).

HYP notes | sean feit | nadalila.org 2015