Sara Kala by Pathanjali maharishi



Introduction:

 Sara Kala, the word Sara means flow, and Kala means an Art. This is one of the most important Kala of yoga, which was said by the Patanjali Maharishi. Only a few members are known about this Sara Kala. It is also called Sara Sasthra. This is said to be one of the major parts of Yoga.

            Sara Kala is about the breathing technique which regards the Surya Nadi and Chandra Nadi. Breathing through the right nostril of the nose is said to be Surya Nadi, and similarly left nostril breathing is Chandra Nadi.

            While taking a breath we can observe that air can flow easily through one nostril, and the other nostril will be hard. This friction should be like this if the air flows easily through both Surya and Chandra Nadi, we can notice that our health is not good.

Surya Nadi:

Breathing through the right nostril, the energy flows that come up the right side of the body. The energy starts from the right terminating on the right at the right nostril. The major energy flow is known as Pingala Nadi. The Surya means the sun, the solar energy means heat, warm energies.

            The Surya Nadi enhances the functioning of the sympathetic nervous system to survive. The fight the stress response is mediated through the sympathetic system and the right nostril helps to do so. The Surya Nadi helps us to catabolic burning up our resources to keep us alive. It enables us to become active. On those days in dull, uneasy when you do not feel like coming out of bed in such situations, but we need to go to our daily work, the right nostril breathing technique can set the day.

            If we are stressed up and stressed out. We need the parasympathetic system to cool and calm the body. The persons are having higher functioning of a sympathetic always become stressed out, for those people the left nostril breathing technique brings them back to the middle and to a balanced point.

            Our right nostril had a connection with the left brain. By activating Surya Nadi, our left part of the brain can have the power to deal with a qualitative aspect like arts, music, and some kind of creative works.

            There is a gesture called Nasagra gesture to activate the Surya Nadi in pranayama. Close the right nostril with the thumb and start breathing in and out with the left nostril. Follow this technique 6 to 9 times around.

The Gesture is shown in the below fig:

Right Nostril:

            Surya Nadi

            Pingala Nadi

            Sympathetic

            Positive Energy


Chandra Nadi:

Breathing through the left nostril, the energy flow starts from the left and ends on the left side of the body. This energy flow is known as Ida Nadi.

Chandra Nadi refers to the moon, a cool and with lunar nature. It enables us to go into the parasympathetic nervous system. Parasympathetic helps us to anabolic replication of our resources to live for the other day.

The people who are tired, dull, feeling laziness should use to activate the Surya Nadi (right nostril breathing).  As per science, our left brain is connected with Surya Nadi to do day-to-day activities. Both analytical and logical functions mean quantitative functioning’s will be performed by the left brain

Ex: Acquiring the data, Generalization of the results, etc.

To perform this Chandra Nadi pranayama, the same Nasagra gesture but with the ring finger to close the left nostril and start breathing in and out through the right nostril. Follow this technique 6 to 9 times around.

Left Nostril:

            Chandra Nadi

            IDA Nadi

            Parasympathetic

            Negative Energy

Conclusion:

            We had Pingala Nadi on the right and IDA Nadi on the left. The left and right energy that is flowing through the right and left nostrils determinates and balances the heat and cool energy in the body.

The main goal of yoga is to balance our Breath. To say clinically Right Nostril had a connection with left-brain and similarly left nostril with the right brain. Surya Nadi (Right Nostril Breathing technique) enhances quantitative aspects in daily activities, and similarly, Chandra Nadi (Left Nostril Breathing technique) enhances Qualitative aspects in daily activities.

But as per Indian culture and beliefs, Lakshmi Devi is the goddess of prosperity and Saraswathi Devi is the goddess of Wisdom and Knowledge. Lakshmi is the left brain and Saraswathi is the Right Brain. The balancing of both energies is called Sara Kala in yoga.