Living On Sunlight

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Date: Posted 5 years before Jan 26, 2018

rishi 5 years ago

I was reading one of Michael's posts today titled "Infusing sun light energy into subtle body" today and i thought of starting a new thread under the named subject.

In the past year, i have been doing considerable study on the prana shakthi that can be absorbed from the sun. Many of the Esoteric masters in India have under deep contemplation and research unearthed many of the secrets in this field.

In the book "A search in Secret India" Paul Brunton comes to the holy city of Benares and is introduced to one Vishudanandha. The incident that Pual Brunton witnesses is illustrated below.

"Once again I am in the house of the magician. The latter tells me that he can restore life only to a small animal; usually he experiments with a bird.

A sparrow is strangled and left exposed to our gaze for about an hour, so that we can assure ourselves that it is really dead. Its eyes are motionless, its body sad and stiff; I cannot discover a single sign which might betray the presence of life in the little creature. The magician picks up his magnifying glass and concentrates a ray of sunlight into an eye of the bird. I wait while a few minutes pass uneventfully. The old man sits bent over his strange task, his large eyes fixed in a glassy stare, his face cold, emotionless and non-committal. Suddenly, his lips open and his voice breaks out into a weird, crooning chant in some language which is unknown to me. A little later the bird's body begins to twitch. I have seen a dog twitch its suffering frame in the same manner, when the spasms of approaching death have overtaken it. Then comes a slight fluttering of the feathers and within a few minutes the sparrow is on its legs, hopping around the floor. Truly the dead have come to life!

During its next phase of this strange existence, the bird gathers sufficient strength to fly up into the air, where it busies itself for a while in finding new perching points as it flies around the room. The thing seems so incredible that I pull body and wits together, in an effort to reassure myself that everything and everyone surrounding me is real, tangible and not hallucinatory. A tense half-hour passes, while I watch the fluttering efforts of the revived creature. At last a sudden climax provides me with a fresh surprise. The poor sparrow falls through the air and lies motionless at our feet. It remains there without stirring. An examination reveals it as breathless and quite dead.

"Could you have prolonged its life still further?" I ask the magician.

"That is the most I can show you at present," he replies, with a slight shrug."

Swami Rama, in one of his books mentions about this incident and describes this as Surya Vigyan (the knowledge of the sun). Surya Vigyan and Chandra Vigyan (Science of Sri vidya) are two of the highest esoteric branches in the Tantric tradition. While The Science of Sri vidhya is still alive in India (there are a few masters), the science of Surya Vigyan seems to have completely disappeared or at any rate, i have not been able to find any of the masters teaching this sacred science.

The science of Surya Vigyan revolves around uncovering the enormous potential of the Manipura (Solar plexus) chakra. Tantrics emphasize that the human being is a miniature version of the universe. What is present outside is also present inside every human being. That being the case, while the sun is the Agni of the solar system, the solar plexus represents the agni within each human soul. Under deep meditation and contemplation of the sun in this chakra along with certain yogic practices, yogis begin to display the same life giving power of the sun.

One of the prominent kriyas used to gain access to the chakra according to swami rama is Agni sara.

Apart from the life giving properties of the sun , is the ability of the sages to live without food or water for months together. This past fortnight, i was reading another interesting book "Sivananda Buried Yoga" in which the author says that he was able to live for sixty five days without food or drink" just by practicing the kriya of Surya Namaskar.

In his book Sivananda Buried Yoga, Yogi Manmoyanand writes about the secret kriya of surya namaskar and the deeper spiritual science the sun salutation uses to empower the chakras and energy levels of the human body. The information in Sivananda Buried Yoga was taken from Yogi Manmoyanad’s journey in the Himalayan Mountains and residence with a secret group of highly evolved yogis. The spiritual knowledge that Yogi Manmoyanad teaches in his book is difficult to find elsewhere and of great value to any serious spiritual practitioner, sun gazer and yogi.

This post features an excerpt from Sivananda Buried Yoga that teaches the traditional spiritual kriya of surya namaskar in a way that has been lost from modern yoga practice. Learn the purpose and power of the surya namasakar positions, mantras and chakras. Learn how the yoga kriya surya namaskar is designed to help the human body attract, store and use solar energy for its function.

Kriya of Surya Namaskar by Yogi Manmoyanand:

Excerpt from Sivananda Buried Yoga:

The solar energy perceived as light as seven wavelengths. When sunlight is broken through a prism, we see seven wavelengths as seven different and distinct colors. Violet has the smallest wavelength than the highest frequency. On the other end of the spectrum, red has the highest wavelength in the smallest frequency. The extreme wavelengths like ultraviolet and infrared have harmful effects on the body and remained on perceivable. The seven wavelengths provide nourishment to all forms of life under the sun. Every living thing directly or indirectly depends upon solar energy for its sustenance. Exposure to sunlight in the morning and evening gives us an important food ingredient, vitamin D. The human body has been intelligently designed to receive and assimilate each wavelength of the sun.

The function and mechanism of the body largely depends upon seven systems: the nervous system, cardiovascular system, respiratory system, excretory system, reproductive system, lymphatic system and digestive system. Each of these systems are in turn governed and regulated by seven specific endocrine glands. These endocrine glands are located along a vertical access in the body, that’s more or less the same place where the chakras or energy whorls are situated. As mentioned earlier, there are seven chakras, and their positions lie from the crown of the head to the bottom of the spinal column. The endocrine glands function with the backup energy that is supplied through the chakras. It is interesting to note that the energy frequencies of the chakras are exactly the same as the seven different wavelengths of the sunlight. The crown chakra corresponds to the violet wavelength, and in that order, the base chakra functions with the red wavelength. Thus the functions of the entire body are directly related to the frequencies of sunlight.

Surya namaskar is not in an asana, as technically it does not function to provide the steady and pleasurable state of the asana. It is an important kriya used for the support and sustenance of the body. It has seven kiryas arranged in a sequence of 12 steps corresponding to the number of zodiacs of the sun. The seven kriyas are individually designed to assimilate each of the individual wavelengths of solar energy. The practice of surya namasakar is a process where seven kriyas acquire and assimilate the seven individual wavelengths of solar energy into the seven specific and corresponding chakras of the body. As a result, the seven physio-pathological systems of the body are nourished and sustained.

The practice of surya namaskar involves the practice of Mantras. Mantras are usually a sound or syllable, a word or sentence, created on the basis of the sound frequency which is exactly the same as the meaning and implication of the mantra. Mantras have been used as effective tools for spiritual practice for ages by different civilizations around the world. The mantras are usually available in the language of Sanskrit. Mantras can technically be created by the help of any language since it is sound that is used in the mantra and not the linguistic phraseology. Sanskrit is the most suitable language that can be used for the formation of mantras as the language is highly phonetic in nature and the words and sounds of this language stand to denote the meaning and objects of the language.

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In surya namaskar seven such mantras are used. The frequencies of the mantras are chosen to correspond to the energy dynamics of the seven individual wavelengths. The function of these mantras is to invoke and attract the seven different energies of the sun.

For the practice of surya namaskar, one needs to face the rising sun and expose as much of the body as possible. The kirya is not very useful when practiced indoors or with a covered body. Standing in the energy invoking a position, one has to keep chanting the first mantra until the corresponding chakras of the body begins to pulsate very strongly. Keeping the attention on this receiving pulsation and maintaining the chanting of the mantra, one has to perform all seven kiryas of surya namaskar in the correct sequence of 12 steps. This invokes, receives and assimilates the intended wavelength of solar energy into the corresponding chakra. In order to acquire and assimilate the seven wavelengths of the sun, one has to perform the whole process seven times with the chanting of the appropriate mantra and the concentration at the appropriate chakra. This becomes one cycle of the kirya of surya namaskar. The effect of one cycle of surya namaskar helps the yogi to nourish and sustain himself for 24 hours. This is how the yogi surpasses the need of food for a full day.

Gradually I began to experience the secrets of the ancient yogis who lived without food for years. I grew more excited and delighted as I soon mastered the art of living without food.

During the practice periods, I sometimes dropped even the only meal of the day. The nourishment of the body by solar energy has absolutely no side effects. It does not result in any hunger fatigue or reduction in the general level of one’s strength. Here I should remind the readers not to attempt to live without food as long as they have a secondary use of their body. If the machinery of the body is used for any purpose other than the practice of yoga kriyas it would need an appropriate amount of fuel for its function.

Keeping to a careful regime, I completely stopped my food intake. For this purpose, I began to do surya namaskar twice a day: both in the morning and evening. At this time I stopped eating food, and gradually even stopped drinking water. During this phase of practice, I live for 65 days in one stretch without food."

Alfredo 5 years ago

Rishi Ji!

Thanks for this interesting post and information.

Interestingly enough, I was taking my daily sunbath right now here in Miami, where we are blessed with strong sunlight all year round. I do this mostly for physical health reasons, not for mystic ones, but I am always ready to add any new angle, especially a Kriya one. The sun gazing thing calls my attention.

When one takes sunlight on a naked body, preferably, you intake millions of electrons. This is crucial for the health of the cell brain, which is the cell membrane. It is not the cell nucleus which functions as the brain, as previously thought, for if you remove a cell nucleus, the cell goes on living and functioning sometimes for weeks. In the nucleus is where protein replication takes place, where the DNA is. But it is the cell membrane that calls the shots, by allowing what enters and what remains outside. It is paramount for its health to have a proper supply of electrons, and a proper fat homeostasis. The latter is hindered when saturated fats are ingested, preventing oxygen flow through the cell membrane, that's why it is important to ingest mostly unsaturated fats, being the most unsaturated of all flaxseed oil. This chemical unsaturation provides for a cloud of electrons moving about the chemical structure of this fat, like an aura, which is augmented by sunbath. This cloud of electrons now strengthens the total aura of the individual, preventing disease. This is sun nutrition at its best. It is even increased many times if you rub and massage the body while taking the sunbath with 8:2 ratio flaxseed oil/wheatgerm oil, especially in the area of the lymphatic nodes.

And by the way, let's review the crazy idea that sunbath is the main cause of skin cancer, for in the US, for example, people are less exposed to the sun today than ever before and skin cancer has soared. It is way more complicated than that, but people are being scared by a medical community propped up by big pharma ($, that's all).

As for Paul Brunton's book "A Search in Secret India", I have it and have read it several times. It made him famous, and also made Ramana Maharshi known to the western world.

rishi 5 years ago

Dear Alfredo,

The most important thing to remember while doing the surya namaskara is the awareness of the sunlight at a particular chakra. By resting the awareness on the chakra, your breath awareness becomes a prism for absorbing the corresponding frequency of the chakra. For example, for a person suffering from reproductive disorders , then awareness of the sunlight at the swadhistana chakra will rectify this disorder. I mention this because most books available on this subject fail to emphasize this point.

Also among all kriyas, the surya namaskar is considered one of the highest because it bends the spine. My guru once told me "Have you ever seen a old snake? You might see a old cat or a old dog but you will never see a old snake." This is because the snake constantly rotates its spine.

A similar kriya practiced among Tibetans , which you would already know is the 5 Tibetans.

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Curious and coincidental that you should mention ramana maharishi. Only 10 days back, i spent 3 days at the Ramana Maharishi Ashram in Tiruvannamalai. The time i spent there in meditation and the experience of going around the hill was simply superb. Most of the people who come there and stay to meditate are foreigners from all parts of the world. They have come there with a single minded dedication to realize the higher truth. Just being with them and meditating in silence gives a profound effect because of the heightened state of vibration there.

Alfredo 5 years ago

Namaste Rishi Ji!

Thanks again!

As a practicing Hindu, any wisdom coming from Sanatana Dharma is welcomed here.

I am familiar with the Surya Namaskara, but have never practiced it consistently. Because of my liking and familiarity with the sun, Surya, that may change now thanks to you. I do not know the 5 Tibetans either.

But not to worry, I already ordered from Amazon.com the "Sivananda Buried Yoga" by Yogi Manmoyanand.

Hari OM!

PD: Please share your wisdom more often, I bow to you.

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Wow, what an Ashram, Rishi Ji!

I have lived in Ramana Asrama several times, as a visitor, usually in the visitors' quarter that faces Arunachala Hill.

It is there also that 2 people I have admired greatly have their old physical remains entombed. I am referring to Sadhu Arunachala (Major Chadwick from England), and S. S. Cohen (Iraqi Jew), these 2 tombs are to the left of the entrance near the quarters of my friend J. J., the librarian.

I have enjoyed the pradakshina around the hill and also climbing it and meditating in Virupaksha Cave. I have also done pradakshina around Maharshi's Samadhi to my heart's content, and meditated for hours in his Mother Samadhi/Temple.

Shankar Puja at Arunachaleswara Temple in Tiruvannamalai is also great.

You are right, the spiritual tanmatras in Ramana Asrama are perhaps the greatest in the whole of India because they are augmented by the holy Arunachala hill, which the Maharshi said was verily a Shiva Lingam and one of the spiritual axis of the world.

rishi 5 years ago

Wov! Just reading your experiences on Tiruvannamalai makes me thrilled. Did you have any mystical experiences there? Did you meet any of the sages there?

My guru told me that there are still a lot of sages meditating on the hill of Arunachala but you will not be able to see them unless they wish to make themselves known. If you go there and view it as a trek, it will affect you only physically but the moment you surrender to the divine place that is thiruvannamalai, the vibrations that you feel will be entirely different.

MiBeloved 5 years ago

Rishi,

There are two aspects to dealing with sun energy, in fact any energy from any other planetary body like the moon for instance. First of all what is your interest? Is it for affecting the physical body? Or is it for affecting the subtle body?

A yogi should be clear about this and then proceed with the information.

Affecting the physical form is different to affecting the subtle form. It is important to research with a clear understanding about this.

If you can get the Valmiki Ramayana, that is one of the best sources for information of what yogis do with sunlight and moonlight because there is a description of what yogis were doing around the Pampa forest just before Rama and Lakshman met with Hanuman for the first time.

Do not read about this from the distorted information given by Tulsie Das in the Ramacharita Manas, where he belittles the austerity of Sabari, the woman ascetic. Read it from Valmiki about Matanga Rishi and his disciples.

rishi 5 years ago

Dear Michael,

My research is only towards the subtle side. Having said that the Kriya of surya namaskar benefits both the subtle and physical bodies.

I am aware about the sacred Aditya Hridayam which was revealed by the great sage Agastya to Lord Rama. I will get hold of the copy mentioned by you and read it.

Alfredo 5 years ago

The fact is, sungazing is for the very few, and can be dangerous for the majority, it should only be done as a mystical practice, under specific mystic directions, karmic leanings, and not only for health concerns.

unlimitedsun 5 years ago

Alfredo wrote:

unlimitedsun's reply:

Rishi, part of the information you provided does stipulate that it is only for those who only need to engage in spiritual pursuit, others need to take food stuff as explained above by Alfredo.

Overall what I have gotten from these posts is that this technique is stemming from profound knowledge, and accessible from great advancement.

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