{"id":781,"date":"2020-05-24T14:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T14:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2020-05-24T14:52:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T14:52:52","slug":"why-do-the-texts-say-that-pascimottanasana-activates-su%e1%b9%a3um%e1%b9%87a-and-awakens-the-ku%e1%b9%87%e1%b8%8dalini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Why do the texts say that pa\u015bcimott\u0101n\u0101sana activates su\u1e63um\u1e47\u0101 and awakens the ku\u1e47\u1e0dalin\u012b?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">It so happened in India, that spiritual practices are most often performed facing east. Accordingly, the west (conditionally) is our back, the south is the right and hot side and the north is left and cold. The Sun is associated with vital power, it rises in the east and sets (i.e. disappears) in the west. We fall asleep at sunset and our senses become silent, and they turn on at sunrise. We can see basically everything that is in front of us, on the sides, below and even sometimes from above, but we cannot see our back. We can only feel it, while there should be an inversion element, i.e. direction inward, listening to our sensations inside. The west is a symbol of the extinction of activities, the completeness of them, so it is\u00a0<em>su\u1e63um\u1e47\u0101<\/em>. It is also no coincidence that one of the well-known traditions, where\u00a0<em>ku\u1e47\u1e0dalin\u012b<\/em> is worshiped in the form of the Goddess\u00a0<em>Kubjik\u0101<\/em>, is called <em>pa\u015bchim\u0101mnay\u0101\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 the Western Doctrine. <em>Pa\u015bchima \u2013<\/em>\u00a0from <em>pa\u015bc\u0101t<\/em>\u00a0(behind, the last, completed, western), therefore it is a symbol of <em>su\u1e63um\u1e47\u0101<\/em>, self-absorption. Thus, <em>pa\u015bcimott\u0101n\u0101sana<\/em> is focused specifically on the direction of attention and the\u00a0<em>pr\u0101\u1e47a\u00a0<\/em>in <em>su\u1e63um\u1e47\u0101<\/em> along with it. This <em>\u0101sana<\/em> is also focused on the conscious activation of <em>su\u1e63um\u1e47\u0101<\/em> with\u00a0<em>praty\u0101h\u0101ra<\/em>\u00a0and the awakening of the <em>ku\u1e47\u1e0dalin\u012b<\/em> power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It so happened in India, that spiritual practices are most often performed facing east. Accordingly, the west (conditionally) is our back, the south is the right and hot side and the north is left and cold. The Sun is associated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/?p=781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,4,83,19],"tags":[216,103,217,215,55,49],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asana","category-texts","category-yoga","category-yogic-practice","tag-goddess-kubjika","tag-kualini","tag-paschimamnaya","tag-pascimottanasana","tag-pratyahara","tag-suumna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matsyendranatha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}