Soham
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"I am That" — a highly potent foundational mantra sadhana (also chanted reversed as Hamso), named alongside Gayatri and Omkar sadhana as among the most powerful, widely-known practices seekers tend to undervalue in favor of complex secret sadhanas.
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The most accessible sadhanas are the most neglected: Gayatri, Omkar, Soham
The speaker says people neglect and ignore precisely the mantra or sadhana that is most accessible — whether the Gayatri Mantra, Omkar or Soham-Hamsa. Once a sadhana becomes widely known, people assume that since it is no longer secret it will not give fruit or have effect, and begin to undervalue it. Yet Omkar sadhana on its own is such that if someone does it, there is no need to do anything else.
Caution: nobody with an awakened kundalini teaches the process on YouTube
Asked to make a video on Kundalini awakening through Soham, the speaker says plainly that he cannot lie: his kundalini is not awakened and he does not know its vidhan. To those searching YouTube for a kundalini-jagran process he says that whoever has actually had the awakening will not come on YouTube and explain how it is done. He allows only that by guru's grace he has attained certain states of that path; otherwise his whole vidhan is mantrokta and sattvik, he is entirely a grihastha sadhak, and he urges householder sadhanas.
What is ajapa jap and how does it work?
Naam jap should not be left; if you keep doing naam jap, ajapa jap will keep happening, and ajapa jap has a vidhi. When the subject of karmakand is learnt, one learns how the breath moving in and out is carried by Soham and Hans, since it runs naturally in that very manner — which is held to be the Parmahansa mantra. But it is brought to fruition by taking a sankalpa, and the one whose mind stays free of vikaar is the one who will take that sankalpa.
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