Fourth Kriya Shankarananda.pdf

Swami Shankarananda explains that the purpose of the Fourth Kriya is to establish oneself in the breathless state.

FOURTH KRIYA first part Place your awareness at Ajna in the center of the head. Exhale sweetly from Ajna to the heart Chakra (very short breath); visualie the ener!y come down throu!h the front. "ocus on the heart Chakra and feel the Prana. Concentrate on the e#uilibrium state between inhalation and exhalation. $emain in this condition without breathin! for some seconds. %hen let natural inhalation start. "ollowin! this natural inhalation raise the awareness in Ajna. Concentrate on the e#uilibrium state between exhalation and inhalation. $e&eat a!ain and a!ain until the breath is almost non'existent. FOURTH KRIYA second part p art Place your awareness at Ajna. nhale sweetly from uladhara to Ajna and draw the Prana into Ajna %otally for!et the existence of other Chakras. Concentrate on the e#uilibrium state between inhalation and exhalation. Exhale sweetly from Ajna down the s&ine but do not come down to uladhara. *ou *ou will see that the exhalin! current reaches s&ontaneously a certain &oint in the s&ine. t is not &ossible to foresee where this &oint will be. +ut it is fundamental to observe where it is because this &oint  becomes the new startin! &oint. , re&eat- for!et the existence of other Chakras. %here %here is only a hollow hollow tube between uladhara and Ajna- all the &rocess ha&&ens there. there .  /ow inhale a!ain from this &oint into Ajna. %he current comes u& throu!h throu!h the s&ine and the len!th of the way is obviously shorter. Concentrate on the e#uilibrium state between inhalation and exhalation. Exhale sweetly down the s&ine and you will see that the exhalin! current makes a shorter &ath0 shorter than the &revious. %here is a new startin! &oint. 1o on in this way and you will see that the breath becomes shorter and shorter until there is no breath. ..... $emain with no breath in Ajna0 in the center of your head. +ut if the breath a&&ears a!ain (as it usually ha&&ens) start a!ain the &rocess since the be!innin! (inhalation from uladhara to Ajna) +e un&erturbed0 &atient. A!ain reach a &oint with no breath... one day you will remain in Ajna absorbed in the &erfect  breathless state.