Hamsa Soham – combines both, and reflects the balanced movement of the unitary prana, through the unity of the Sun and Moon. So’ham – also used as the natural sound of the breath, particularly So as inhalation through the left nostril and Ham as exhalation through the right relates to the night or lunar breath.Hamsa – used as the natural sound of the breath, particularly Ham as inhalation through the right nostril and Sa as exhalation through the left relates to the day or solar breath.In the Hindu traditions, sound has always been regarded as the best way to experience this union.Īnd that, dear reader, is why I teach So’ham.Įxcerpt: Shiva Yoga and Hamsa (by David Frawley) This is why it takes a higher order of understanding to surmount this body identity, to see what Einstein described as the “sort of optical delusion” of separate self. Our sense of being a separate unit, a separate body, a separate life is at least partly due to the constant vigilance of our immune systems–indeed, its job is to identify self vs. And there are very practical reasons, life and death reasons, why we must separate ourselves constantly from things like viruses (Ebola, anyone?). Yet our experience of life is typically of separation, as in it’s me against the world or it’s us against them. Scientifically, how could you or I ever be separate from the whole? Impossible. The whole shooting match–universe, existence, reality–is your true identity.
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