Message #27760

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Jyoti Mudra
“Jyoti-Mudra” (Light-Mudra), the technique Yogananda taught for seeing the inner light (“Bhagavan Jyoti”), is called in Yoga treatises “Shan-Mukhi-Mudra,” the ‘six-openings-seal.” It is referred to, for example, in the ancient “Goraksha Paddhati,” which explains it as the blocking of the ears, eyes, and nostrils with ones fingers: one covers the ears with the thumbs, the eyes with ones index fingers, and the nostrils with the remaining fingers. This Mudra, one reads there, is recommended for the manifestation of the inner sound. Yogananda taught it for seeing the inner light. Interesting! Well, if one thinks about it, he also taught that the Aum-vibration is experienced as both sound and light.