Hatha Yoga Pradipika - Level 4 - On Samadhi

Apply the three conditions to progress: live in a good locality, restrain pranav force up the cosmic chakra, and collect self-trauma to sustain it at the highest potential level.

Uncover how time bifurcates from zero into day and night, revealing timelessness as a yoga secret. Focus on the one nodi that unites seventy-two thousand noddies and Shakti.

Learn how intensified yogic practices awaken kundalini, raise it through the tissue, and sustain consciousness toward the middle channel, yielding samadhi where mind and soul are equal.

Explore how controlling breath or mental processes governs prana and mind, with two paths, breathing or meditation, that align when one is managed, then gradually soften both.

Explore Swara yoga and brain breathing, where mind and breath mix and pranayama concentrates the mind; Mercury's alchemical role illustrates stabilizing mind toward higher consciousness.

Explore breath control that unlocks the eight great powers and sixteen minor powers like telepathy, while maintaining universal consciousness and elevated mind-body balance.

Explore how breath, mind, and senses interrelate through laya and nada, revealing how absorption of consciousness shapes breathing, mood, and access to deeper states of awareness.

Discover how absorbed consciousness reveals Moksha, the first liberation of immortality, bringing fearlessness and bliss. Explore how this layer of yoga unlocks immortality and sets the stage for deeper Samadhi.

discover how laya is accomplished by restraining the breath, quieting the senses, and suspending thought toward samadhi, via meditation, pranayama, and tantric sensory practice under guru guidance.

Experience true samadhi through complete letting go, letting the mind absorb beyond words and intellect. Forget methods, memories, desires, and even breathing to realize the layer beyond description.

Learn the mystic Shambhala mudra, turning the eyes inward and the five senses away from the outside world. Discover inner self without books or texts, guiding higher consciousness.

Practice the shumba mudra and twilight mudra, Parvati's mudra of the feminine form of Shiva, with eyes open, gazing unblinkingly at the self as the universe, perceiving divine existence.

Explore how sumbawa and cagily mudras mark distinct seats of consciousness—the heart and the mind—leading to heart bliss and mind bliss absorbed in the great emptiness.

Practice the no mind technique by gazing down the bridge of the nose at a light in a crystal ball, breathe to lift it to the top of the head.

Practice the mudra and let experience reveal what is known, stopping reasoning and discussion. Study only the minimal theory needed, and let inner experience guide you beyond texts and science.

Taraka mudra crosses over by focusing the inner light at the top of the head after kundalini awakens. Breathe very light, deep, and practice only in pranayama states.

Explore the internal secret of the Katri mudra as breath shifts through the space element, unlocks prana awareness and the cosmic circle toward the skywalker state through Suara Yoga.

Discover khechari mudra, the tongue lock beloved of Shiva that redirects the flow of consciousness from the ego toward higher awareness, deepening self-knowledge through samadhi.

Explore turiya by using kedgeree mudra with pranayama, rising prana through the bundles, crossing over no mind to mind overmind, achieving a super consciousness beyond waking, dream, and deep sleep.

Explore yogic sleep as absolute repose, progressing from prana awareness and physical balance through bandos to yoga netra, the stable no mind background consciousness.

Explore the wondrous effects of khechari through guta pranayama and mudra sequences, guiding breath retention, space meditation, and the dissolving of space into self for mastery of samadhi.