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Surya Namaskar Mantras
Tribute to the Inner Sun, your Soul
Three Surya Namaskar mantras as musical accompaniment to the 'Salutations to the Inner Sun' posture series based on the 12 surya mantras. The Surya Prabhana Pranayama is a mantra with hand gestures to lovingly expand your breath. The Surya puja is a prayer to the reflections of your Inner Sun, your Soul, for deepening, stillness and refinement of your lived experience and relationship with your soul.
Mantras
1. Surya Namaskar mantra - 1 cycle of three mantras
2. Surya Namaskar mantra - 7 cycles of one mantra
3. Surya Namaskar mantra - 5 cycles of two mantras
4. Surya Prabhana Pranayama mantra
5. Surya puja
Surya, your Inner Sun
The Surya Namaskar, the “Salutation to the Sun,” is a greeting to the most important celestial body that makes this life here on earth possible for you, the sun. This greeting symbolizes a greeting to the most inner, valuable aspect of you as a human being, that which makes your life valuable, your inner sun, your soul.
The Surya Namaskar is therefore a sacred greeting, a deep bow of respect from your personality to the twelve aspects of the soul, to befriend them, to be reunited with them, to be whole with them, to be healed and sanctified. Then being human suddenly means something completely different, and the actions and fruits that come from that human being will serve life in its fullest and most valuable meaning.
If you wish to know the soul, you wish to know something greater than the confines of your focus, something greater than your desire to see and the resulting focus. The only way to know and experience it is to allow it to enter you, to receive it joyfully, so that you can understand it from within, in the fullness of your being.
Surya Namaskar Mantras
The five mantras on this album are used in three major Surya practices: Surya Namaskar, Surya Prabhana Pranayama, and Surya Puja.
The Surya Namaskar is an exercise that involves the entire body. The intention of Surya Namaskar is to use all your cells to greet Surya, the sun, your inner sun, your soul. Because you feel that there is more to you than your personality and your body, you wish to get in touch with your soul. As a personality that longs for spiritual depth, you use Surya Namaskar, the 12 Surya mantras and the corresponding postures to connect with your soul, and that begins with greeting and meeting (namaskar).
The Surya puja is an exercise that you do while sitting, gesturing with your arms, hands and head to express your gratitude for all the richness that you receive when you experience your soul. You are aware of your soul and in this way thank the great Mother Soul to whom all souls belong.
Track 1-3: Surya Namaskar mantra’s
Ode to your Soul
1. Surya Namaskar mantra - 1 cycle (14.35 minutes) 2. Surya Namaskar mantra - 7 cycles (34.39 minutes) 3. Surya Namaskar mantra - 5 cycles (43.01 minutes) This album has three mantra accompaniments for the Surya Namaskar, the “Salutation to the Sun” ritual. All three have their own atmosphere and support you in performing the Surya Namaskar series of postures , which vary in tempo and intensity.
The mantra begins with a musical, meditative introduction in which aum is chanted, which symbolizes the primordial sound, the essential, the absolute, that which contains the essence of everything. The mantra then continues with chanting the Surya mantra for one long cycle of about 15 minutes, seven short cycles of about 30 minutes and five medium-length cycles of about 45 minutes. The Sanskrit mantras are:
Track 4: Surya puja
Prayer of gratitude to the twelve qualities of your soul
Opening prayer Aum shanti shanti shanti aum Aum atma amrithathvam Aum purna ahsritha Aum purusha tattvamasi Mantra Aum atma mitraya namaha Aum atma ravaye namaha Aum atma suryaya namaha Vahe atma shanti saranagati Aum atma bhanave namaha Aum atma khagaya namaha Aum atma pushne namaha Vahe atma shanti saranagati Aum atma hiranyagarbhaya namaha Aum atma maricaye namaha Aum atma adityaya namaha Vahe atma shanti saranagati Aum atma savitre namaha Aum atma arkaya namaha Aum atma bhaskaraya namaha Vahe atma shanti saranagati Aum shanti shanti shanti aum Free translation opening prayer: “Peace is the true nature of all things.
Oh immortal Mother of all souls.
Track 5: Surya Prabhana Pranayama mantra
The "Radiant Sun Breath"
The Surya Prabhana Pranayama, also known as “Radiant Soul Breathing,” supports the use of the space of the breath and deepens the connection with your consciousness. During the Surya mantras, you touch the twelve qualities with a long, streamlined inhalation, and with the exhalation, you give inner attention to your gratitude (in Sanskrit, dhanyavadah) for experiencing the qualities of your being during the following mantra. See the overview of the Surya qualities below, their meaning, the corresponding chakra area, and the associated hand and arm position. These are mentioned separately here, but you make a fluid movement as you inhale and exhale.
The breath remains streamlined throughout the exercise. All the names in sequence are one inhalation and all the mantras of gratitude in sequence are one exhalation. So you let the air in very slowly during the inhalation. You create physical space by opening your arms and you create energetic space by feeling the connections and then you let the breath in very slowly. You have to find the right attunement for this and the accompanying music indicates the right duration for the inhalation and exhalation.