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Jalandharabandha

Kantamakucha hrudaye sthapayochhibukam drudam| Bandho jaalandharachyoyam jaramrutyuvinashakah||

Summary: Bend the neck down, press the chin against the chest and hold tightly - this is called Jalandharabandha. This overcomes old age anddeath.

Reason for this name

badnati hi sirajalamadhogami nabhojalam| tato jaa landharobnadah kantaduchoghanashanah||

Summary: The essence of brain i s blocked from going down, this is called jalandarabandha. Jala means essense of the brain, a flood of this iscalled Jaala and to hold or bear this is called jaalandhara. The more concentrated this brain essence, greater will be the memory power.

Special benefits

Jaalandhare krute bandhe kantasankochalakshane| Na piyusham patatyagnou na cha vayuh prakupyati|| Summary: In the practitioner who performs the above described bandha according to the instructions of his guru, brain essence can not bedestroyed by the jataragni. In addition, relief from gas related abdominal bloating is also achieved.

In Pranayama, all three bandhas must be practiced. After rechaka, one must do jalandharabandha, moolabandha and uddiyanabandha while after puraka, moolabandha and jalandarabandha must be followed without fail during pranayama.

In yogashastra, one must do 320 pranayamas everyday. This means that it was classfied as 80 in the morning, 80 in the afternoon, 80 in theevening and 80 in mid-night. Since this is impossible, one can do 80 pranayama in one sitting. The reason is that now a days, you need to spendmore time working to support your life. Benefits are delayed too.

Rechaka, puraka and kumbhaka when practiced with equal t ime and equal numbers are called Samavrutti pranayama.

When practiced with variations (incr ease and/or decrease) in time and numbers it is called Vishamavrutti pranayama.

Those who learn it from a Guru will learn to practice properly.

Those who are not proficient in yogasana will not be able to get expertise in pranayama.

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Women who are not pregnant have equal rights as men. Even in pregnancy they have the right to practice samasankya samavrutti pranayama.However, after the 6-month of pregnancy, they can not practice that (samavrutti pranayama) also. Yoganga applies equally to both men and

women except during pregnancy - please remember thi s.

Some are saying that Nauli, Neti, Vasti, Vajroli, Dhauti, Khechari etc., kriyas are also part of yoganga and propagating such information throughvarious texts is very unfortunate.

Any text that shows a list of yogangas does not say so. Hatayogapradipika lists them under a separate heading Shatkriyas and in the sametext clearly states that everyone should not practice it.

Medha shleshmadhikah poorvam shatkarmani samacharet| Anystu nacharettani doshanam samabhavatah||

Therefore, we should pay attention to this rule and use it only as treatment for certain diseases such as those caused by excess fat.