Mudras

After posting a few funnies from Oscar Wilde, I thought that the main focus of this blog is truth and wisdom. I thought that I would focus on Mudra which are hand positions used in yoga. Our teacher Ram Das Bir Singh has us use different mudras to help the brain connect with certain aspects of the infinity.

• Gyan Mudra: Place the tip of the thumb together with the tip of the index finger.
  Stimulates: Knowledge and ability.
  Planet: Jupiter – representing expansion.
  
  



• Shuni Mudra: Place the tip of the middle finger on the tip of the thumb.
  Stimulates: Patience and discernment.
  Planet: Saturn – the task master, the law of karma, the taking of responsibility and
  courage to hold to duty.
  


• Ravi Mudra: Place the tip of the ring finger on the tip of the thumb.
  Stimulates: Revitalizing energy, nervous system strength and good health.
  Planet: Sun – energy, health and sexuality. Uranus – nervous system strength, intuition
  and change.


• Buddhi Mudra: Place the tip of the little finger on the tip of the thumb.
  Stimulates: Capacity to communicate clearly and intuitively and psychic development.
  Planet: Mercury – quickness and mental powers of communication.

Practicing this with the chant- Sa-Ta-Na-Ma brings a total mental balance to the individual psyche. As you vibrate on each fingertip, you alternate your electrical polarities. The index and ring fingers are electrically negative, relative to the other fingers. This causes a balance in the electromagnetic projection of the aura.

Source:

The Ancient Art of Self-Healing, by Yogi Bhajan. West Anandpur Publishers, Eugene, OR, 1982.