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What to do when you are disturbed?

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Most people will say yes to that. Desires leave us tangled in the world outside and disturbed in the world inside. The ancient sages gave us a technique to free ourselves from desires.

Try it and feel the difference, says Yogi Ashwini of Dhyan Ashram.



At any point in time, any one of your senses is always at work, all the time running after objects of desire. The doorways to these desires in the human body are our sense organs. Shanmukhi Mudra is the technique to shut these doors to Maya to be able to experience the real world, which lies within. Sit in Siddha Asana, keeping your back absolutely straight. Now, slowly raise your hands towards the face, keeping the elbows at shoulder level. Put the thumbs inside the ear holes, blocking any external sound. Then, close your eyes and gently press your eyelids with the index finger. Ensure that no light enters. Then, slowly press the nasal passage with tip of your middle finger. Keep the pressure soft and release the pressure on nostrils at frequent intervals to take in some air, using your little finger to shut the mouth. Once all the doors are shut, try and listen to the sound within, observe where it leads you. Do not stretch the breath beyond your limit.

Caution:

In the beginning, do not try and strain yourself by closing the nostrils as you might suffocate yourself. Breathe in after frequent and comfortable gaps. With the ring finger and little finger, press the upper lip and lower one, thereby closing the seven doorways to Maya. The seven doorways being the two eyes, two ears, two nostrils and the mouth. Once you close these seven gates or indriyas, you tend to close the doorways to the external and artificial world, and you begin exploring the reality within. The calmness and peace experienced through this practice is amazing. This is a very effective technique for people who lead a stressful life, suffering from insomnia and depression.
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