Pratyahara - 3 Knots of Lahiri Mahasaya and Sense Reversal

Summary

December 9, 2018, 17 min

Lahiri Mahasaya's three knots — tongue, heart and coccyx — explained through Swami Dhirananda's four stages of sense reversal: skin tingling or freeze, a magnetic pull after Khechari and amrita, Om heard and light seen without plugging the ears or pressing the eyes, and white light spiraling in the spiritual eye. Links the stages to clinical mindfulness.

In this video

Teaches

GranthisStages of sense reversal

Discusses

Khechari mudraLahiri MahasayaDhiranandaPratyaharaFalling sensation in meditationFreeze ResponseAmritaSpiritual eyeMedullaOMClinical Mindfulness Technique

Mentions

Kriya YogaAutobiography of a YogiParamahansa YoganandaPraeceptaPituitary glandMeditation postureOM techniqueNadaHacking the UniverseHRV ResonancePolyvagal Theory

Key moments

00:01Lahiri Mahasaya's three knots, rarely presented correctly 00:43The tongue knot: Khechari mudra and its partial forms 02:07The heart knot and the coccyx knot 02:24Dhirananda, Yogananda and the origin of the lessons 04:05Dhirananda's four stages of sense reversal 04:27Stage one: tingling or crawling over the whole skin 05:50Numbness, the eggshell feeling and the freeze response 06:54First knot: the tongue in the sphenoid sinus and the amrita 08:32The magnetic pull in the Kutastha or the medulla 09:55Heart knot: Om heard without plugging the ears 12:48Coccyx knot: white light spiraling like an aurora 14:06Hacking the Universe and Dhirananda's contribution 14:35Clinical mindfulness leads into the stages of sense reversal 15:41The gate matters more than the end state