5 8 S p i r i t ua l i t y S t u d i e s 8 - 2 Fa l l 2 0 2 2 Nādānusandhāna is the door to the pathway that leads to the famed śambhavi mudrā. The key to success on this path, according to Goraknath and the Yoga Upanishads lies in utilizing the correct practices in the correct sequence. First one must gain complete control over the physical organism; then mental steadiness must be established. The flow of mental activity must then be reversed until the mind dissolves into the highest Self and the yogin gains the experience of non-duality. This reversal is termed nādānusandhāna and leads the yogin through four stages of experience by which he or she gains the subtle power to hear the un-struck sound of the heart that is “the source point” (bindu) of the mind. The nature of this process of reversal is hidden within the meanings of the constituent parts of the term nādānusandhāna. Na refers to “prānā” (life wind), and da refers to “agnī” (fire). Nādā is the sound caused by the union of prānā and agnī. When this union is achieved regularly in practice and this sound triggered repeatedly, it wakens Kundalinī (“the coiled power”) and causes it to ascend. Anu refers to an “atom”, and sandhāna is the “act of taking aim”. The sound penetrates to the realm of the infinitely small, the chamber of “the unstruck sound within the heart” (anāhata nādā). This brings unmanī avasthā (“the state beyond mind”) and this manifests in four clear stages of experience before the final dissolution and reabsorption into “the source point” (bindu).
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