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Surya Namaskar Mantras
Tribute to the Inner Sun, your Soul
Three Surya Namaskar mantras as musical accompaniment to the 'Salutations to the Inner Sun' posture series based on the 12 surya mantras. The Surya Prabhana Pranayama is a mantra with hand gestures to lovingly expand your breath. The Surya puja is a prayer to the reflections of your Inner Sun, your Soul, for deepening, stillness and refinement of your lived experience and relationship with your soul.
Mantras
1. Surya Namaskar mantra - 1 cycle of three mantras
2. Surya Namaskar mantra - 7 cycles of one mantra
3. Surya Namaskar mantra - 5 cycles of two mantras
4. Surya Prabhana Pranayama mantra
5. Surya puja
Surya, your Inner Sun
The Surya Namaskar, the “Salutation to the Sun,” is a greeting to the most important celestial body that makes this life here on earth possible for you, the sun. This greeting symbolizes a greeting to the most inner, valuable aspect of you as a human being, that which makes your life valuable, your inner sun, your soul. The Surya Namaskar is therefore a sacred greeting, a deep bow of respect from your personality to the twelve aspects of the soul, to befriend them, to be reunited with them, to be whole with them, to be healed and sanctified. Then being human suddenly means something completely different, and the actions and fruits that come from that human being will serve life in its fullest and most valuable meaning.
If you wish to know the soul, you wish to know something greater than the confines of your focus, something greater than your desire to see and the resulting focus. The only way to know and experience it is to allow it to enter you, to receive it joyfully, so that you can understand it from within, in the fullness of your being. The “I” cannot see the soul as a whole and would be better off not looking directly at it, just as it cannot see the sun as a whole and would be better off not looking directly into the sun. But the “I” can receive the sun, the soul, and can be open to the influence of the soul, open to the warmth, the light, and the radiance of the sun, of the soul. That is why the greatest spiritual invitation to people is to transform their conviction that they have to focus on achieving something in life into receptivity so that they feel what life as a whole is and how it is meant to be. Then you experience wholeness and how it fulfills you, because only in the completeness of wholeness does the soul have the space to feel at home and unfold.
The Surya Namaskar begins with the Mitraya aspect because it emphasizes the value of friendship and thus the soul as your friend or loved one. This is the foundation from which the Surya Namaskar begins, and being in touch with this quality has a soothing effect on the other eleven movements and values. After all, friendship is the emotional space where you feel loved, and that is a prerequisite for development. You then dare to be yourself much more (2nd aspect: Ravaye) and recognize your longing as your life force (3rd aspect: Suryaya). In order to evolve, you as a human being have the ability to perceive (4th aspect: Bhanave) and for this perception to be sincere, it is important that you feel free (5th aspect: Khagaya) and healthy (6th aspect: Pushne). In this state you will more easily remember your origin (7th aspect: Hiranyagarbhaya) and experience yourself as a whole (8th aspect: Maricaye). In this openness, you will more often feel enveloped (9th aspect: Adityaya) and inspired (10th aspect: Savitre). This emotional and intuitive lightness will give you a spiritual radiance (11th aspect: Arkaya), so that you will recognize its source as your loving self (12th aspect: Bhaskaraya) and most cherished friend. All Surya exercises are therefore always accompanied by the value of friendship, beginning with friendship for yourself as a person and expanding to friendship with your essence.
Surya Namaskar Mantras
The five mantras on this album are used in three major Surya practices: Surya Namaskar, Surya Prabhana Pranayama, and Surya Puja.
The Surya Namaskar is an exercise that involves the entire body. The intention of Surya Namaskar is to use all your cells to greet Surya, the sun, your inner sun, your soul. Because you feel that there is more to you than your personality and your body, you wish to get in touch with your soul. As a personality that longs for spiritual depth, you use Surya Namaskar, the 12 Surya mantras and the corresponding postures to connect with your soul, and that begins with greeting and meeting (namaskar). The Surya puja is an exercise that you do while sitting, gesturing with your arms, hands and head to express your gratitude for all the richness that you receive when you experience your soul. You are aware of your soul and in this way thank the great Mother Soul to whom all souls belong. The Surya Prabhana Pranayama is a pranayama (energetic breathing exercise) that you do while standing, using all the space available for breathing and energy flow. This pranayama brings together almost all the important aspects of the pranayama practice. In terms of physical movement, it primarily involves the arms and the hand chakras, to enhance both the space of your breath and the energetic freedom to open up further.
All three exercises together show how any relationship, including this spiritual relationship with your soul, takes place. It begins with greeting each other with respect and interest. Then there are moments of opening up more deeply to the other person and meeting each other more intimately. This exchange deepens more and more, and gratitude arises for being with and near each other. This gratitude for each other eventually becomes so great that you release ego space for the other person to use. As both parties release ego space to each other, one comes closer and closer to the realization that the deepest desire is to live in each other's energy and aura. May the Namaskar, Puja and Pranayama deeply support you in this way, to enter sincerely and deeply into a relationship with your soul, which you have longed for so long. The Surya exercises are discussed below, with descriptions and illustrations of the gestures and poses, and the mantras and their meaning.
Track 1-3: Surya Namaskar mantra’s
Ode to your Soul
1. Surya Namaskar mantra - 1 cycle (14.35 minutes) 2. Surya Namaskar mantra - 7 cycles (34.39 minutes) 3. Surya Namaskar mantra - 5 cycles (43.01 minutes) This album has three mantra accompaniments for the Surya Namaskar, the “Salutation to the Sun” ritual. All three have their own atmosphere and support you in performing the Surya Namaskar series of postures , which vary in tempo and intensity. The mantra begins with a musical, meditative introduction in which aum is chanted, which symbolizes the primordial sound, the essential, the absolute, that which contains the essence of everything. The mantra then continues with chanting the Surya mantra for one long cycle of about 15 minutes, seven short cycles of about 30 minutes and five medium-length cycles of about 45 minutes. The Sanskrit mantras are:
Mantra Aum mitraya namaha I salute you sun, soul, light of my loving friend. Aum ravaye namaha I salute you sun, soul, light around which everything has arisen. Aum suryaya namaha I salute you sun, soul, light that keeps me alive. Aum bhanave namaha I salute you sun, soul, light that makes everything visible. Aum khagaya namaha I salute you sun, soul, light that lets me experience what unbound freedom is. Aum pushne namaha I salute you sun, soul, light that is my most essential nourishment. Aum hiranyagarbhaya namaha I salute you sun, soul, light that is the first aspect of all creation. Aum maricaye namaha I greet you sun, soul, light that heals. Aum adityaya namaha I greet you sun, soul, light that continues to spread light like a mother. Aum savitre namaha I greet you sun, soul, light of spiritual inspiration. Aum arkaya namaha I greet you sun, soul, light that reaches and opens everything with its radiation. Aum bhaskaraya namaha I salute you sun, soul, light that is both source and creator. Aum shanti aum Your peace is the true nature of everything, including me. Aum shanti aum Your peace is the true nature of everything, including me Surya namaskar series of poses
Track 4: Surya puja
Prayer of gratitude to the twelve qualities of your soul
Opening prayer Aum shanti shanti shanti aum Aum atma amrithathvam Aum purna ahsritha Aum purusha tattvamasi Mantra Aum atma mitraya namaha Aum atma ravaye namaha Aum atma suryaya namaha Vahe atma shanti saranagati Aum atma bhanave namaha Aum atma khagaya namaha Aum atma pushne namaha Vahe atma shanti saranagati Aum atma hiranyagarbhaya namaha Aum atma maricaye namaha Aum atma adityaya namaha Vahe atma shanti saranagati Aum atma savitre namaha Aum atma arkaya namaha Aum atma bhaskaraya namaha Vahe atma shanti saranagati Aum shanti shanti shanti aum Free translation opening prayer: “Peace is the true nature of all things. Oh immortal Mother of all souls. Oh Soul of all souls, you are the wholeness that sustains all. Oh my most sacred soul, you are the eternal principle of peace and as such, you live also within me.” Free translation Surya puja “Oh my shining soul, you are my friend, center and my strength (centering values). You give me sight, space and energy (opening values). You are my origin, healing and protective aura (energetic values). You give me insight, radiance and the connection with the essential light (essential values). Oh glorious soul, every time I experience you and bow before you, I enter a peaceful, enriching and joyous openness Your peace is the true nature of all, including me.” About the Surya puja
The Surya puja is about your gratitude for the light, both the light of the sun outside and the light of your inner soul. The puja reminds you of the different forms of light that want to serve you and open you, offer you clarity and freedom, and let you develop. The Surya puja is specifically about the values of light that you receive from your relationship with your soul. Through the puja you express your gratitude for Atman, the Mother Soul, of which every living being is a child through its individualized soul. In this puja you express your gratitude to the Mother Soul for all the light you have been and are receiving from her, and for the value that this has for you as a more deeply conscious human being. It is like thanking your mother for all that she means to you, or thanking nature for all that it gives you, or thanking your personal inner experience for all that you have received. You as a human being with your individual soul, the Jivatman, are expressing your gratitude to the Atman, the great mother soul that encompasses all souls. It is like the star thanking the sun for the light and all that it receives as a result. Everyone feels connected to something greater in some way, and here that all-encompassing essence is thanked from the heart in a devotional and moving way, in stillness. The Surya puja begins with a short introductory prayer that expresses the spirit and value of the remaining mantras. This is primarily about the profound, venerable value of the soul, or Atma in Sanskrit, which appears often later in this puja.
Track 5: Surya Prabhana Pranayama mantra
The "Radiant Sun Breath"
The Surya Prabhana Pranayama, also known as “Radiant Soul Breathing,” supports the use of the space of the breath and deepens the connection with your consciousness. During the Surya mantras, you touch the twelve qualities with a long, streamlined inhalation, and with the exhalation, you give inner attention to your gratitude (in Sanskrit, dhanyavadah) for experiencing the qualities of your being during the following mantra. See the overview of the Surya qualities below, their meaning, the corresponding chakra area, and the associated hand and arm position. These are mentioned separately here, but you make a fluid movement as you inhale and exhale. The breath remains streamlined throughout the exercise. All the names in sequence are one inhalation and all the mantras of gratitude in sequence are one exhalation. So you let the air in very slowly during the inhalation. You create physical space by opening your arms and you create energetic space by feeling the connections and then you let the breath in very slowly. You have to find the right attunement for this and the accompanying music indicates the right duration for the inhalation and exhalation.
Preceding the mantra