Swara Yoga
Sannyasi
Charanashrit takes you to the
heart of inner experience
through
an esoteric journey very few may
have heard of, and fewer still
attempted to learn.
SWARAYOGA.
Swara Yoga is the yoga of your
very breath, not to be confused
with Pranayama, which is
management of
the
breath.
This almost forgotten
tradition of tantra
is available today because
of living masters of
tantra such
as Paramahamasa Satyananda
and others and preserved
in
translations of
the
Shiva
Swarodaya form the original in
sanskrit. Swara Yoga was a closely
guarded science, so closely that
initiation was given on
one-is-to-one basis, by direct
transmission. Or, by word of mouth
as in the case of Sannyasi
Charanashrit. How in his young
age of 28 years he
became a
another
rare repository of Swara
Yoga is
as mystifying as this ancient
science itself. And has the touch
of the divine
about it.
Charanashrit
found himself in the precincts of the
famous Shive
Temple in Deoghar (Jharkhand)
about 8 km form the tapo bhoomi sthaal
of Paramahamsaji
Satyananda. One
day, Charanashrit
skipped college and
he felt drawn
towards a more
secluded place and noticed
a Sadhu sitting under
the tree, ash-smeared,
matted looks. He
beckoned Charanashrit, then known
as Kishor. Kishor went up to
the Sadhu and the Sadhu
gave him a
copy of shiva swarodaya in Hindi.
"Do you know Swara Yoga ?" asked the Sadhu."No" replied kishor.
"You have forgotten" said the Sadhu. For the next half-an-hour, the sadhu initiated kishor into SwaraYoga. He also gave him a sadhana to practice. "if you have any doubts, come after three days," said the sadhu. It was the twilight hour, known as 'go dhuli' the evening time when cows return home, bells tinkling and raising dust. Three days later, Kishor went to keep his tryst with the Sadhu but there was no one. Slowly it downed on Kishor that the Lord Shiva himself had blessed him in the tantric practice. Every thing was pointed to this realization-the long matted hair, his ash-smeared body, the auspicious twilight hour, it was the Monday the day of shivia july 12th 1993 and since then, kishor's life underwent a dramatic change. Kishor became charnashrit when Paramahamsa Niranjananandji of Bihar School of yoga initiated him into Karma Sannyasa.Charanashrit graduated form the Bihar Yoga Bharati, the first Yoga university in the world and is presently teaching yoga at Atma Darshan Yogashram, Bangalore, India.
Today the boyish looking Charanashirt talks with authority on swara yoga.