A Manual of Hindu Marriage

The middle finger, ring finger and the thumb of the right hand are used in the
breathing exercise for drawing in bio-energy from cosmos.
(1) Close the right nostril by pressing at the side by thumb and inhale slowly
through the left one. Conceptualize that you are drawing in the cosmic
energy of rising sun as a bright golden mist.
(2) Close the left nostril as well by pressing on side with the middle and ring
finger. Hold the breath. Conceptualize that the energy drawn in is activating
a small bright spot at your naval and burning the blemishes covering it
removing the effluent as a dark smoke.
(3) Release the pressure on the right nostril and exhale slowly through the
nostril. Conceptualize that the mental effluents are escaping through the
exhalation.
(4) Close the right nostril and hold the breath.
(5) Now inhale through the right nostril and closing it after inhalation again by
the thumb to retain breath.
(6) Exhale through the left nostril while keeping the right one closed with the
thumb. Close the left nostril and hold the breath.

Serial numbers 1 to 6 make one cycle of the Pranayam. At least one cycle is to be
completed.
Points to remember:
(1) Inhalations and exhalations are carried out slowly with maximum retention
and expulsion of air.
(2) Inhalation is carried out through the same nostril through which exhalation is
done.
(3) Breath is retained for a while both after inhalation and exhalation.

OM! BHOOH OM! BHUVAH OM! SWAH OM! MAHAH, OM! JANAH OM!
TAPAH OM! SATYAM. OM! TATSAVITURVARENYAM, BHARGO
DEVASYA DHIMAHI DHIYO YO NAH PRACHODAYAT.
OM! AAPOJYOTEE RASOMRITAM, BRAHMA BHOORBHUVAH SWAH O-
O-M.

NYAASAH
(Cleansing of nerve centres controlling sense organs and locomotion).
Take a little water in the palm of left hand. Wet the fingers of the right hand in it.
Touch the directed sense organs (lips, both nostril, both eyes, both ears, both
arms, both thighs respectively-first the left one and then the right) and sprinkle
on the body backwards with the respective mantras.
OM! VAANGME AASYESTU. (Lips)
OM! NASORME PRAANOSTU. (Both nostrils)
OM! AKSHNORME CHAKSHURASTU. (Both eyes)
OM! KARMAYORME SHORTRAMASTU. (Both ears)

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