Sadhguru: So
this breath or what conducts the breath,
in yoga we call this the koorma nadi.
You know what’s a koorma?
Not kuruma
Koor
No I saw some tongues
Koorma means a turtle or a tortoise,
an amphibious creature,
it’s in the water but it can also venture out.
So you are a
you can become an amphibious creature
if you master this koorma nadi,
that means you are in the body
but you can be little outside the physical nature
because this is your desire.
Your desire is not to leave the physical for good,
you want to be rooted in the physical
but you want to have a taste of what is beyond,
this is human desire always.
In trying to
See everything that you are doing,
please look at this,
whether you are going out to conquer the world,
you get married,
you bear children,
you do this,
you drink,
you go to temple,
you drug,
you do whatever the hell you want
essentially all that you’re looking for is
you want a bigger experience of life, isn’t it?
Yes or no?
The only way your life’s experience can be enhanced is
by expanding your perception.
If your eyes can see something that it cannot see right now,
your experience is enhanced.
If your ears can hear something
that you cannot hear something right now,
your experience is enhanced.
Like this if your perception is enhanced
only then your experience is enhanced,
otherwise you are only going on imagining things
within the limited data that you have already gathered,
yes?
The only way to enhance is to expand
or to come out.
So koorma nadi,
this is
this breath is referred to as koorma nadi
because if you use it properly
you can become like an amphibious creature
that you can be in the body
but you can venture outside.
This is like a rope -
let’s say we pull out your breath right now,
if I take away your breath what will happen?
You and your body will fall apart.
Right now in your experience
you are the body sitting here
but this rice and … chintha thokku and gomukoora
everything is gathered up here and sitting here.
Yes or no?
Yes?
It’s the food that you’ve eaten.
Is this an accumulation?
Do you understand this is an accumulation?
What you accumulate can be yours,
can never ever be you, isn’t it?
Yes?
I can say this is mine, this is mine, this is mine
but if I say this is me, this is me, this is me-
lost it, isn’t it?
Whatever you accumulate can be yours,
can never ever be you.
So the moment… if I pull the breath away
then you and what is… what you have gathered will fall apart,
you and your body will fall apart.
Or in other words it’s the breath
or the koorma nadi which ties you and your body together.
When we say koorma nadi,
we are not just talking about the passage of air.
Right now you are incapable of experiencing the breath,
in the sense,
see right now if you watch
you think you are watching the breath –
no.
You are only noticing the sensations caused by the passage of breath,
you are not capable of knowing the breath itself.
So the breath
or what sets up this pattern,
what directs this pattern that we are calling as koorma nadi.
If you have some mastery over that
you become an amphibious creature
that is you are rooted in the physical
but you can venture out.
If this much freedom arises in human life
suddenly you know there is another possibility
that there is something beyond physical nature.
Whatever you are going through this
within this physical cocoon is not everything,
you know an…a completely different dimension of life.
If this one thing you know,
if you have a moment of experience beyond your physicality,
death is not a issue, isn’t it?
Hmm?
If you know life beyond your physical body right now,
death is not a issue.
Death is a big issue because you know nothing beyond the body,
when they threaten to take it away there is terror in people
simply because everything that you know is going away.
If you knew something beyond the body,
suddenly this would not be such a big problem.
And it… it is not a problem,
it is a solution for all our problems that we are mortal.
If you were here
Let’s say next million years you are not going to go - tch
that is a problem, isn’t it?
We must live our span and we must go,
that’s a good thing the word Prana
There is no equivalent word in English, but we can say it's the vital energy
That which we call it the life energy is Prana
Prana has
ten different manifestations in the body
but for the sake of understanding we'll bring it down to five
these five are
referred two as
Five vayus or panch vayus
this is
Prana Vayu
Samana Vayu, Udhana Vayu, Aphana and Vyana
they're in charge of different dimensions of
what happens in this human mechanism
This an endless subject if I speak like this, I'm just trying to abridge it in a sensible
manner
taking charge
of this.
Yama means to control or to take charge
Pranayaam means a method with which you want to take charge of these Panch Vayus
because how
your body functions how your mind functions how the whole physiological framework
this human mechanism how it functions
is determined by this energy.
This is an energy
It is an intelligent energy, in the sense
it carries a certain amount of memory
The Karmic memory of the individual person is imprinted on this energy, so in each person
the Prana
functions in a different manner.
It is unique to each individual.
It is not like
like electricity
Electricity is not smart
it can light up the
you know the light bulb, it can run the camera, it can
you know run the air conditioning.
It can do million things but not because of its intelligence
It does the same thing always
Because of a particular device a certain thing happens, but now I am talking about
This will happen in future that you may have smart electricity
It is not far away.
In the next 50 years you may have smart energy that the energy behaves in a particular way
you can make it behave in a certain way because you can imprint certain memory upon it, so
this is an
Intelligent energy where a certain amount of imprint is there
Because of that it functions in a specific manner in an individual person that is
going into an extremely refined form of Pranayaam where we particularly
design something for an individual person because he is in a certain way
For that to come to that level it will need a general level of Pranayaam on where it takes
care of this 5 Vayus
If one has a certain mastery
over these five Vayus, there is no such thing as
Physical Ailment or
Particularly psychological ailment is out of question.
If somebody takes charge of their prana
whatever may be the external atmosphere
whatever influences in terms of reverberations, waves
emotions, other kinds of pressures
Doesn't matter what
Psychological Balance is
100% guaranteed for a person who takes charge of his prana, always.
when I say balance
maybe
most of you won't be medically considered imbalanced
but a whole lot of people are psychologically balanced.
Suppose you have a hand
Suppose this hand simply pops up right now
It pokes into your eyes, and it scratches you and beats you.
If your hand starts doing this
There's a sickness isn't it?
At least your hand is sick
Let me not blame the whole person.
At least your hand is sick for sure isn't it?
Well, this is what most people's minds are doing
Every day, it's scratches you from inside makes you cry make you bawl make you worry
In so many varieties of suffering it pokes your eyeballs out many times
Is it not doing?
It is sick
Maybe in a socially accepted manner
But it is sick
So one who takes charge of his prana can be 100% assured his pychological balance is
there.
You cannot shake it
Physiological Balance also is there but physiological ailments may happen due to various reasons.
One thing is there are infections and other you know organisms who want to live
Yes they want to live
another thing is variety of
chemicals and poisons and stuff we may swallow knowingly unknowingly
And it can cause things, so physiological ailment
is I would say
90 percent guaranteed that it won't happen, but psychological well-being is 100 percent
guaranteed
If you are psychologically in an extremely good place
ten percent of physiological problems are not even a problem you know
It's not even a problem.
Most of the time what little things that may happen to the body
that's not the thing.
What reaction that happens in your mind is the big thing isn't it?
Yes, or no
So Pranayaam means you want to take charge of the vital forces
As I said they have an intelligence of their own each one of them
either during birth
after conception how they enter the Newborn
and how they leave the dead in this it clearly displays it has an intelligence of its own.
One may not notice this unless
they become very conscious about these things
It's a world by itself if you ask me
It takes a certain level of attention.
The word attention may not go deep enough
I'm using the word attention because the other words are horribly corrupted
awareness and this and that I've badly badly corrupted
So I am using the word attention but the word attention is not
suggesting what is needed.
Just mental alertness is not enough
It has to become really attentive.
If you make yourself like that, you know how these five are functioning