Pranopasana is meditation on prana or inner life-force. By engaging oneself in the practice of meditation on prana (life-force), one can establish the link with the spirit, which is the objective of yoga practice. Before establishing the link with spirit, one must establish the conscious link with its energy, i.e., prana. The technique of establishing such a link with prana is to be learnt from an experienced spiritual teacher (guru). Once this technique is learnt, meditation on prana begins spontaneously. Then one does not have to perform anything deliberately. One has just to attend to or wait upon the spontaneously working prana energy within oneself, as a mere witness. This, in a nutshell, is pranópasana.
Awarded the 2019 Prime Minister's Individual Category National Award for contribution to the propagation of yoga, Swami Rajarshi Muni is a Siddha yogi and Sant in the centuries-old Indian heritage of Sants and Sages and was the founder Spiritual head and the Kulguru of the spiritual lineage of Lord Lakulish, the twenty-eighth incarnation of Lord Shiva detailed in the Shiva and Kurma Purana. He was born on 11 February 1931 in Porbandar, in western Gujarat, in princely lineage of the Jadeja rulers of Kutch. His primary education was received at the Sir J High School Limbdi. He graduated from the Shamaldas College Bhavnagar in 1954: he did his Masters's in Sociology from the Pune University, Pune, After that, he served the Government of India and the Governments of Saurashtra and Gujarat as an officer in various capacities between 1955 and 1971. In 1971 he received sannyasa diksha from the renowned yogi guru Swami Kripalavanandji and thus renounced the worldly life for a monastic one. Most of his time after receiving sannyasa diksha was spent in secluded sadhana, but he did not entirely abandon the lineage's mission of sadhana and seva to humanity. He actively contributed a vast body of important literature on Sanatan dharma and yoga. During the 12 years between 1995 and 2007, he travelled extensively in towns, villages and cities of several Indian states and Nepal, there imparting diksha to those desiring to follow the spiritual path and creating social institutions by way of LIFE Mission centers where the devotees could do spiritual practice in an organised way laid out by Muniji.
Muniji founded a network of social, educational, and cultural institutions as an institutional mechanism for carrying out the work of his ministry, which, in addition to personal sadhana, included service to humanity through spiritual instruction and guidance and the propagation of yoga andhe moral and ethical values of the Sanatan Vedic dharma.
Muniji's contribution includes a vast print work on yoga and spirituality. His first works Yoganubhuti Parts 1 & 2, were a two-volume set of guidelines to yoga Sadhak based on his own yoga experiences, which, importantly, at once established him as a yogi of high attainments. His next book, Awakening the Life Force, insightfully explained not only Indian metaphysics but also the workings and processes of yoga practice and was later adjudged by the Government of India as the best book of the year on yoga. But this was only a tiny part of a large 1400-page hand-written manuscript that saw the light of day as three books, the Awakening the Life Force, Tenets for the Spiritual Life and the extraordinary Classical Hatha Yoga. As of 2019, Muniji's written output comprises over 40 English titles, some translated into Russian, Italian, Chinese, and Mandarin, and 114 titles in Gujarati, with 21 Hindi and 6 Marathi translations. Muniji's books on yoga and spirituality are uniquely weighty and authoritative. Most have now been integrated into the teaching curriculum of the Lakulish Yoga University he founded in 2013 under the Gujarat Private Universities Act.
The Yoga University represents the accomplishment of an objective articulated in 1976 when the lineage's Lakulish Yoga Vidyalaya was founded. The Vidyalaya gave to society thousands of trained and qualified practitioners and teachers during the years that it functioned independently (1976-2013)
Pujyapad Muniji is a glorious ornament of the human race as a khechari-mudra realized yogi of the highest accomplishments. He continued to pursue his yoga practice till his Maha Nirvana on 30 August 2022 to reach the goals he had set for himself and, at the same time, also guide and oversee the functioning of the many social, educational, and spiritual Institutions he had established for the common good and to help devotees in their spiritual practices...
There is a keen and growing interest in yoga throughout the world today. Yoga is becoming a widespread method of easing physical stress and mental tensions; physical discomforts or ailments contribute the most towards the restlessness of the mind. Reciprocally, the perturbed mind becomes the major source of physical disorders. It is now an established fact that nearly eighty per cent of our ailments are considered to be psychosomatic in origin. This shows the need for establishing harmony between the body and the mind in order to keep humans happy and healthy. Yoga can play a vital role in enabling mankind to achieve such harmony between body and mind. As a matter of fact, yoga consists of various exercises for achieving physical purification as well as contemplative methods for disciplining the mind.
It is an undeniable fact that yoga was invented by the ancient sages of India. The description of yoga is found in various ancient scriptures of India such as the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Purans, the BhagvadGitā, the Shad-Darshans and many other tantra and yoga texts. Hence, all those who are interested in yoga should gain sufficient information about Indian philosophy, especially Sankhya Darshan and Yoga Darshan. They will have to familiarize themselves with many Sanskrit terms which have technical connotations and have no proper equivalent words in English or other languages. For this reason, certain words are retained in this book without attempting a translation.
Yoga as a mental discipline shows the technique of meditation for perpetually ending the restlessness of the mind. When meditation reaches a very high level, it results intoperfect abstraction called 'samādhi'. In the highest state of samādhi, one achieves the union of the human spirit with the Supreme Spirit, that is, the identity of the contemplator with the contemplated.
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