Seeing Nadis
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Mar 19, 2018
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Email correspondence:
I am interested to hear more nadis, though I am not totally sure that I have enough background knowledge to respond. I am most interested about the release of the negative energies, as you spoke of in these smaller areas of the toes and fingers. Where can i be provided some more info on this and its stretches as well as how to perform them to release these negative effects?
MiBeloved's Response:
Information about the minor nadis, which are the majority of the subtle energy channels, is hard to come by. Mostly in the Vedic literature, the three main nadis are explained as ida, pingala and sushumna, which corresponds to the spine and its main auxiliary nerves in the physical system.
It is left to the student to research and realize this in his or her subtle body. This usually begins with realizing sushumna nadi by raising kundalini through it.
Let us forget about the subtle body for a moment and deal with what we can see which is the physical system. Medical science mapped most of the nerves in the physical body, from that we can get some idea that there are corresponding routes for the passage of energy in the subtle body.
Take a look at this diagram from DK Clip Art. Here you can see a depiction of the main nerves but there are tiny ones, thousands of them, which cannot be seen with the naked eye.
When a main artery is blocked, that might result in a heart attack which is a big event but when a tiny microscopic one is blocked that might result in arthritis which is not such a big deal except when it reaches a chronic stage.
Just as in the physical body blockage or pollution of the nerve passages causes ill-health, so when there is constriction and pollution of the nadis in the subtle body it has negative effects.
How to see or realize the nadis directly?
The practice of seeing the nadis comes under the course of kundalini yogi. It is also known by the name of Hatha yoga as this was explained by Gorakshnath Mahayogin.
This perception begins with seeing either by directed mystic perception or by direct feeling perception, the sushumna nadi passage when it is lit up by the aroused kundalini.
When kundalini is not aroused, then this sushumna passage is dark in color and cannot be perceived. As soon as kundalini moves from the base chakra and travels up there is the likelihood that one will see this passage but as soon as kundalini again descends, the passage will resume its natural state which is like that of the inside of a dark chimney.
If a yogi regularly raises kundalini, then over time he or she will realize this sushumna nadi as well as its auxiliary nadis which are to the right and left of it. If the practice continues to proficiency, the yogi will see many of the other nadis which course through other parts of the subtle body.
By the grace of nature, we have other experiences of the nadis. We have sex pleasure experience which utilizes nadis which pass through the pubic area. While breast feeding an infant and also while being sexually aroused in the breasts a female can detect, and realize nadis in these regions. In fits of excitement and wonder, a human being may also realize other nadis which are in the chest area, in the brain and in other parts of the subtle body.
The yogic way for sensing and seeing the nadis is the practice of kundalini yoga.
