Shloka 111

Adhyaya 8: Yogasthanas, Ashtanga Yoga, Pranayama-Siddhi, and Shiva-Dhyana leading to Samadhi

Devanagari script

द्वात्रिंशद् रेचयेद्धीमान् हृदि नाभौ समाहितः रेचकं पूरकं त्यक्त्वा कुम्भकं च द्विजोत्तमाः

Transliteration

dvātriṃśad recayeddhīmān hṛdi nābhau samāhitaḥ recakaṃ pūrakaṃ tyaktvā kumbhakaṃ ca dvijottamāḥ

Translation

द्वात्रिंशद् रेचयेद्धीमान् हृदि नाभौ समाहितः । रेचकं पूरकं त्यक्त्वा कुम्भकं च द्विजोत्तमाः ॥

Word by Word

• द्वात्रिंशद्: thirty-two

• रेचयेत्: should exhale/should perform rechaka

• धीमान्: the wise one

• हृदि: in the heart

• नाभौ: in the navel

• समाहितः: composed, concentrated

• रेचकं: exhalation (rechaka)

• पूरकं: inhalation (pūraka)

• त्यक्त्वा: having abandoned/setting aside

• कुम्भकं: breath-retention

• च: and

• द्विजोत्तमाः: O best of the twice-born (brahmins).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Pashupata-Yoga discipline as taught in the Linga Purana tradition)