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    This document provides instructions for performing the So Darshan Chakra Kriya meditation technique. The meditation involves alternate nostril breathing while mentally chanting the mantra "Wahe Guru" sixteen times per breath. Practitioners inhale through the left nostril, hold the breath while pumping the navel and chanting, then exhale through the right nostril. The meditation is said to have significant transformational powers and health benefits when practiced for 11-31 minutes daily. Advanced practitioners can extend the time to 62 minutes or 2.5 hours per day. Careful and reverent practice of this highest Kriya is encouraged to gain a new start against life's challenges.

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    This document provides instructions for performing the So Darshan Chakra Kriya meditation technique. The meditation involves alternate nostril breathing while mentally chanting the mantra "Wahe Guru" sixteen times per breath. Practitioners inhale through the left nostril, hold the breath while pumping the navel and chanting, then exhale through the right nostril. The meditation is said to have significant transformational powers and health benefits when practiced for 11-31 minutes daily. Advanced practitioners can extend the time to 62 minutes or 2.5 hours per day. Careful and reverent practice of this highest Kriya is encouraged to gain a new start against life's challenges.

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    Sodarshan Chakra Kriya

    As taught by Yogi Bhajan - 8/91 Espanola, N.M.

    Posture - Sit with a straight spine.

    Focus - The eyes are looking at the tip of the nose and 9/10ths closed. (So Darshan Chakra Kriya is not to be
    done with the eyes all the way closed)

    Mudra - The left hand is in Gyan Mudra resting on the left knee. The right hand uses the thumb and index
    finger or little finger to block off the alternate nostrils.

    Mantra - Wahe Guru (pronounced, “Wha-Hay-Guroo”).

    Breath
    a) Block off the right nostril with the right thumb. Inhale slowly and deeply through the left nostril. Hold the
    breath. Mentally chant "Wha Hay Guroo" 16 times. Pump the navel point 3 times with each repetition,
    once on "Wha", once on "Hay", and once on "Guroo" - for a total of 48 unbroken pumps.
    b) Unblock the right nostril. Place the right index finger (pinkie finger can also be used) to block off the left
    nostril, and exhale slowly and deeply through the right nostril.
    c) Continue repeating steps a & b

    Time - Do the meditation for 11-31 minutes. Master practitioners may extend this practice to 62 minutes, then
    to 2-1/2 hours a day.

    To End - Inhale, hold 5-10 seconds, and exhale. Then stretch and shake every part of your body for about 1
    minute, so that the energy can spread.

    Comments – This is one of the greatest meditations you can practice. It has considerable transformational
    powers. The personal identity is rebuilt, giving the individual a new perspective on the Self. It retrains the mind.
    According to the tantra shastras, it can purify your past karma and the subconscious impulses that may block
    you from fulfilling you. It balances all the 27 facets of life and mental projection, and gives you the pranic power
    of health and healing. It establishes inner happiness and a state of flow and ecstasy in life. It opens your inner
    universe to relate, co-create, and complete the external universe.

    This meditation balances the Teacher aspect of the mind. It acts on all the other aspects like a mirror to reveal
    their true nature and adds corrections. You act as a human being not just a human doing. If the Teacher
    aspect is too strong, you risk a spiritual ego, which becomes too attached to the ability to detach and to be
    “above” normal struggles. When the Teacher aspect is too weak, you can misuse your spiritual and teaching
    position for personal advantage.

    When balanced, the Teacher aspect is impersonally personal. It starts with absolute awareness and a neutral
    assessment from that awareness. The Teacher uses intuition to know directly what is real and what is a
    diversion. You respond from the Neutral Mind beyond the positives and negatives. You are clear about the
    purpose and the laws of each action. A complete Teacher is not an instructor. The Teacher is the expression of
    Infinity for the benefit of all. You master non-attachment so that you are simultaneously in all your activities and
    not of them.

    Treat the practice with reverence and increase your depth, dimensions, caliber, and happiness. It gives you a
    new start against all odds. “Of all the 20 types of yoga, including Kundalini Yoga, this is the highest Kriya. This
    meditation cuts through all darkness. It will give you a new start. It is the simplest kriya, but at the same time
    the hardest. It cuts through all barriers of the neurotic or psychotic inside-nature. When a person in a very bad
    state, techniques imposed from the outside will not work. The pressure has to be stimulated from within. The
    tragedy of life is when the subconscious releases garbage into the conscious mind. This kriya invokes the
    Kundalini to give you the necessary vitality and intuition to combat the negative effects of the subconscious
    mind. There is no time, no place, no space, and no condition attached to this mantra. Each garbage point has
    its own time to clear. If you are going to clean your own garbage, you must estimate and clean it as fast as you
    can, or as slow as you want. Start practicing slowly; he slower the better. Start with five minutes a day, and
    gradually build the time to either 31 or 62 minutes. Maximum time is 2-1/2 hours for practice of this meditation.”
    – YOGI BHAJAN

    Excerpt from Gurdwara Lecture on Sunday, December 22nd, 2002


    Now, most powerful and beautiful is So Darshan Chakra Kriya. I thought that I have taught for so many years,
    now people are ready for it. We didn't start teaching it the first day. For me (I do not know about anyone else) it
    took 30 years to be able to control my left and right nostrils without holding them with my fingers. And I still do
    that sometimes when I feel very weak - I use my hand and fingers. Somebody can say, "Switching nostrils is not
    needed since the air coming through the right nostril and the left nostril meets." We shall not take any
    responsibility for such wrong practices! What the hell is one creating? Disturbing the pituitary, the master
    command gland? These kinds of jokes will end by themselves, but it will be dangerous for those who practice it
    wrong. There is nothing in the teachings which are not clearly stated and which have not worked accurately.

    Other Note: The meditation is described in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib on page 1106 (
    http://www.sikhnet.com/sggs/translation/1106.html ). It is a prayer written by Bhagat Jai Dev. He says, “The
    breath is drawn in through the left nostril; it is held in the central channel of the Sushmanaa, and exhaled
    through the right nostril, repeating the Lord's Name sixteen times.”

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