Sushumna Nadi

Only when energies enter into Sushumna, life really begins.

In-Universe, everything is made of matter, and this matter is made of atoms, and atom is made of electrons, proton, and neutrons. an electron which is negative energy is Ida Nadi, proton which is positive energy is Pingala Nadi, neutron which is neutral energy is Sushumna Nadi.

 

Ida Nadi

The Left Channel is our Moon Side, the Feminine Side of us which represents our desires, emotions, and past.  As such it is considered to be the cool side and can affect us by making us feel depressed, lethargic, introverted, and self-pitying.​

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• This channel starts at the left side of the first chakra and is connected to the right side and back of our brain which is known as the subconscious area of the brain. 

• This channel caters to our Left Sympathetic Nervous System  

• It is the channel that creates our past.  Whatever is present today becomes past tomorrow. 

• The subconscious mind receives information from this channel. Whatever that is dead or gone out of the subconscious mind goes out into the 'collective subconscious mind'. 

• This collective subconscious has all that is dead in the evolutionary process collected and stored.  Everything that was in the past since creation resides dormant in the collective subconscious.

• The Subconscious area, which we call the ‘superego’ is a storehouse of all habits, memories, conditionings.

   

  Pingala Nadi
  

  The right channel is the sun side, the masculine side of us which represents our action & planning, mental (over-thinking) & physical activities, and the futuristic attitude.  It is therefore very susceptible to overheating, which can easily throw us off balance.  If we find that we have become more aggressive, unsympathetic, and stressed then we may be suffering from an over-heated right channel.
  
  This channel starts at the right side of the second chakra and is connected with the left and front side of the brain which is known as the Supra-Conscious area of the brain – we call ‘ego’.  This gives us the  “I-ness”
  
  This channel caters to our Right Sympathetic Nervous System.
  
  This channel creates our thinking, future planning, etc. This then gets recorded in the 'supra-conscious mind'.

  The supra-conscious mind is connected to the 'collective supra-conscious mind', which has all that is dead, which happened due to over-ambitious, futuristic personalities aggressive animals or plants.
  

The Ida and Pingala represent the basic duality in the existence. It is this duality that we traditionally personify as Shiva and Shakti. Or you can simply call it masculine and feminine, or it can be the logical and the intuitive aspect of you. It is based on this that life is created. Without these two dualities, life wouldn’t exist as it does right now. In the beginning, everything is primordial, there is no duality. But once creation happens, there is duality.

When I say masculine and feminine, I am not talking in terms of gender, but in terms of certain qualities in nature. Certain qualities in nature have been identified as masculine. Certain other qualities have been identified as feminine. You may be a man, but if your Ida is more pronounced, the feminine may be dominant in you. You may be a woman, but if your Pingala is more pronounced, the masculine may be dominant in you.

Sushumna Nadi

Bringing a balance between Ida and Pingala will make you effective in the world, it will make you handle life aspects well. Most people live and die in Ida and Pingala; Sushumna, the central space, remains dormant. But Sushumna is the most significant aspect of human physiology. Only when energies enter into Sushumna, life really begins.

This Nadi is connected to God's power or cosmic power from where cosmic energy enters into our pranic system. when we stop thinking from Ida and Pingla Nadi then Sushumna Nadi gets activated. when we live in present, when there is a gap between two thoughts, then we are connected to cosmic energy. when we train our mind to think positively by spiritual knowledge and meditation then our Sushumna Nadi gets activated. when we think positively our breath and thought become slow and less.

while meditating when we get connected to God, then our kundalini rises up and starts activating our chakra points and reaches to shastra chakra.

Vairagya

Fundamentally, Sushumna is attribute-less, it has no quality of its own. It is like an empty space. If there is empty space, you can create anything you want. Once energies enter into Sushumna, we say you attain to vairagya “Raga,” which means color. “Vairag,” means no color, you have become transparent. You are unprejudiced. Wherever you are, you become a part of that, but nothing sticks to you. Only if you are like this, only if you are in a state of Vairag, then you will dare to explore all dimensions of life when you live here.

Right now, you are reasonably balanced, but if for some reason the outside situation goes crazy, you will also go crazy, in reaction to that because that is the nature of Ida and Pingala. It is reactive to what is outside. But once the energies enter into Sushumna, you attain a new kind of balance, an inner balance where whatever happens outside, there is a certain space within you which never gets disturbed, which is never in any kind of turmoil, which cannot be touched by the outside situation. Only if you create this stable situation within yourself, you will dare to scale the peak of consciousness.

The practices of yoga work together to force prana into the central Sushumna channel, allowing kundalini to rise, leading to moksha, liberation. The Shatkarmas purifies the Nadis, while the mudras trap prana, and other practices force the prana out of the Ida and Pingala channels.