MUDRA- SHASTRA

Miracles of Mudras Your Health in Your Hand -Acharya Keshav Dev People fold their fingers in various Mudras (Gestures). It is little known, however, that Mudra Science is Tatva Yoga-Yoga based on science of elements. And, believes Acharya Keshav Dev, these mudras can help cure many diseases. MRIT SANJIVINI MUDRA In the case of severe heart attack, this life giving divice Mudra provides instant relief within a few seconds. Helping hand for Cardiacs. First Aid for Heart Problems.

APAN MUDRA Provide relief in urinary problems Facilitates discharge of waste material from the body. Cleanses & purifies the body.

PRAN MUDRA Energy Bank - Improves Vitality of the body & Eyesight.

LING MUDRA Practice the Mudra and get rid of Frequent Cold, Congested Chest and Incurable Infections.

GYAN MUDRA Yogic Tranquilizer. Its practice ensures Mental Peace, Concentration of the mind and Sharp Memory, Spiritual enhansment develops creativity.

SHUNYA MUDRA Cures ear aches in just a few minutes.

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Mudras can bring about miraculous change and improvement in our body. Mudras generate Powers to provide all round development of mind & body which brings peace and happiness. Mudras look like miraculous remedies. They provide instant relief in many illnesses. Mudras can cure almost any ailment from simple earache to heart attack. Mudras help in moulding the Physical, Mental and even the Moral aspects of the individual. Some Mudras can balance the elements of the body within 45 minutes while some are fast enough to act within a few seconds.

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Practice of some of the Mudra's regularly can cure Insomnia, Arthritis, improves memory. Mudras have extra ordinary powers, practice of mudras brings about a quick and fundamental reversions of the destructive changes in the human body. They also develop virtuousity, social amiability, non-violence, piety and courteous dispositions. All Godly and superhuman persons like Lord Mahavir, Gautam Buddha, Lord Shankaracharya and others used to remain in these Mudras. Mudra helps in Kundalini Yoga to awaken the Cosmic Energy and to unite consciousness of inner Supreme Soul. Mudras are significant and simple yogic function by which one can develop internal and external dispositions. Detailed description of Mudras are found in Tantra Shastra, Upasana Shastra, Nritya Shastra, Art of Sculpture etc.

The Sanskrit word mudra is translated as ‘gesture’ or ‘attitude’. Mudras can be described as psychic, emotional, devotional and aesthetic gestures or attitudes. Yogis have experienced mudras as attitudes of energy flow, intended to link individual pranic force with universal or cosmic force. Mudras are a combination of subtle physical movements which alter mood, attitude and perception, and which deepen awareness and concentration.

GYAN MUDRA : Touch your Index finger to the tip of your thumb. The palm should face the sky (upwards), keeping the remaining three fingers straight. Benefits : It removes all the negative thoughts and makes you positive. This mudra develops your I.Q and sharpens the memory. It helps to keep irritation, anger and anxiety away.

VAYU MUDRA : Touch your Index finger to the root of your thumb and press it gently. Benefits : It instantly relieves pain of the joints and paralytic attacks. This mudra also helps alleviate any sort of problems concerned with the air (VayuTatva), as it controls all the Vayu-Tatva we have in the body. Note : Not helpful for ear-ache and stomach-ache (colic). For ear-ache and stomach-ache, shunya mudra and apan mudra are recommended.

SHUNYA MUDRA : Touch the root of the Middle finger’s nail with the thumb and press it gently. Benefits : It relieves ear-aches instantly. It is good for deafness if not by birth. It also helps in eardischarge and other ear problems. Time to be spent – at least 40 minutes for chronic diseases.

PRITHVI MUDRA : Touch your Ring finger to the tip of your thumb Benefits : It removes the deficiency of all the vitamins and nourishes the body. It also helps in developing positive thoughts, thus filling one with freshness and happiness.

VARUN MUDRA : Touch your Little finger to the tip of your thumb. Benefits : It controls the lack of the water element (Jal Tatva) in the body, as well as dryness and

SURYA MUDRA : Touch the root of the Ring finger’s nail with the thumb. Benefits : It is excellent to check obesity and heaviness of the body. How do these mudras work? The hand mudras presented above are meditative mudras. They redirect the prana MUDRA : Touch last body. two fingers beingPRANA emitted by the hands, backyour into the (Ring and Little finger) to the tip of your thumb. Also each finger represents a Tatva (element). Thus the joining of different fingers Benefits : Practice of this mudra regulates the energy of different Tatvasawakens flowing the in the body. dormant prana shakti, vital energy, and distributes it throughout the body, increasing resistance, strength, Thumb Agni Tatva (Fire element) health and confidence. It also instills an inner Finger attitudeIndex of peace and equanimity. ItVayu helpsTatva solve (Air element) Middle Finger Tatva (Ether element) many eye problems and works as a Aakaash catalyst for other mudrasRing when done after the mudra.Prithvi Tatva (Earth element) Finger Little Finger Jala Tatva (Water element) LING MUDRA : Inter-lock your fingers and straighten your right thumb as shown in the diagram. The thumb collects the FIRE element from nature, thereby increasing the heat in the body. Benefits : Good for cough, cold and the abuses of winter, as it increases the heat in the body

APAN MUDRA : Touch your Middle two fingers (Middle and Ring finger) to the tip of your thumb. Benefits : It controls your Apan Vayu thus regulating your excretory organs (Intestines, Urinary tract and Ovaries). Most gastric problems can also be cured.

SANJEVANI MUDRA : It is a combination of two mudras (Vayu Mudra and Apan Mudra). Bend your Index finger and touch at the root of your thumb (at the Venus mound). Then touch both the Middle fingers (Middle and Ring Finger) to the tip of your thumb. Benefits : Good for heart ailments. Relieves Angina (chest pain) instantly.