The
Art of Kaya Kalpa
‘Kaya Kalpa' is a powerful technique that was discovered in
principle and practiced in various ways since ancient times. For the past two
decades, since 1985, it was synthesized in a simple format and taught to thousands of men and women by Sri Vethathiri
Maharishi as a daily routine to enhance vitality, promoting maximal health and
longevity. The valuable theory and practice presented here are given as taught
personally by Sri Vethathiri, and we are profoundly grateful to him for giving
us this Art of Kaya Kalpa. The practice is based on the teachings of the South
Indian Siddhas and has a three-fold objective:
1.
Withstanding the ageing process;
2.
Maintaining youthfulness and
physical health;
3.
To promote longevity as far as
possible so that one may live to attain wisdom and spiritual fulfilment.
The practice of Kaya Kalpa confers significant spiritual as
well as physical benefit because the mind and body are energized and
harmonized. This practice is a restructuring process of the body in a natural
way, so there are no medicines or herbs involved. Through regular practice of
this simple technique significant results have been obtained in various types
of chronic diseases and in overall improvement of health and immunity. Kaya
Kalpa is thus an anti-ageing technique; it helps cure and prevent diseases and
relieves many of the troubles that come with ageing.
Sri Vethathiri explained the theoretical base of Kaya Kalpa
with the idea that one would understand the theory and practice the technique.
It is not simply a set of postures and movements that are to be learned by
imitation -- the practice of Kaya Kalpa should be done with understanding and
application of mind in order to be most effective. There are two practices:
1.
Toning the nerves
and
2.
Ojas breath,
These two practices are done in
several different postures, personally
demonstrated during the course.
Theory
Science of Body
Chemistry
The physical body is sustained by food, air, water and other
radiations from earth and the cosmos. The metabolic routines separate and
synthesize the chemical elements needed for the digestive juices and to make
the blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow and sexual vital fluid.
According the science of ayurveda, each of these is
extracted from the previous one and thus the sexual vital fluid is a precious
essence, distilled after a complex and wonderful process.
The sexual vital fluid is concentrated in the reproductive
organs (both males and females), and it is also distributed in small quantities
throughout the body, the endocrine glands and the brain. The sexual vital fluid
comprises several chemicals and hormones and is highly energetic. This vital
fluid is the chemical base where the life energy (akash particles) is concentrated
and intensified, just like acid is the base for electricity in a battery.
Hence, because it is the base of the life force we can understand that
maintenance of good quantity and quality of sexual vital fluid is crucial to
our well being. It is our biological nature that there is an urge to release
sexual fluid every now and then. Releasing the surplus is healthy. But there is
a tendency to become deficient in quantity and quality of the sexual vital
fluid due to lack of proper habits in food, work (activity), rest, sexual
habits and use of thought force. All these factors have an effect on the sexual
vital fluid and hence on our life force.
Life force is the energy that circulates all over the body;
it is what we call 'life' itself. To be alive there must be circulation of life
force. The life force is comprised of free energy particles in circulation all
through the living body, and the base of this energy is the sexual vital fluid.
Just
as all energy particles radiate a magnetic wave, the life force particles in
the body constantly radiate a magnetic wave that we call 'biomagnetism'. The
biomagnetism is the affecter, receptor, recorder and reflector for every
action, function and experience –whether physical or mental. Hence,
sufficient quantity of sexual vital fluid charges the life force, and a strong
life force is needed to maintain intensity of the biomagnetic wave that carries
out all the routines and functions of the body and mind.
Now, keeping this explanation in mind, please
refer to the diagram above. You will see why all
the five points are linked to form a circle. Kaya Kalpa practice sustains the
health of body and mind by optimum maintenance of the sexual vital fluid, which
is essential for a strong life force and fully charged biomagnetismSCIENCE OF THIS PRACTICE
Toning the nerves(Aswini Mudra)
1)Nerves are activated around the anus
2)Activate the sexual vital gland
3)Purify the sexual vital fluid
4)Ectoplasm sediment in upper layer of the sexual vital fluid
Ojas breath,
1)Moolapantham - push the ectoplasm from the mooladhar( sexual vital gland)
2)turn the tongue - pull the ectoplasm from the thuriyam (pineal gland)
3)air breathe from nose - ectoplasm travel from sexual vital gland to pineal gland through sugkuma nadi
4)air release from mouth in teeth cap - ectoplasm travel from pineal gland to each and every cell of the body
5)Release Moolapantham
