Sun Meditation

SIDDHAMRIT SURYA KRIYA YOGA ( Sun Meditation)

A revolutionary practice, manifested, to transform human race into a Superhuman race, to spell the end of gloom, hunger, disease, and death itself, which have now for long bounded mankind in their fatal chains. A practice, that indeed makes one perfect!

Part 1

The Beginning
Sri Swami Budhpuri ji Maharaj who represents one of the oldest orders of Sanyassis of India (i.e. The Puri order) can be hailed as the spiritual scientist, as someone who is determined to recourse the path of humanity towards the true source of Happiness.
In the last few centuries society has degraded spiritually as much as it has progressed technologically. In other words our troubles have only increased under the curtains of increasing comforts. Swamiji chose renunciation to contribute to or provide a thrust to the spiritual evolution of man, instead of limiting himself to the narrow space of Professor hood, helping only a handful of people with technological science; all this after he had gained a Master’s Degree in Technology.
To accomplish his objective Swamiji has been working tirelessly for over 35 years. His work has led him to solitary retreats in the Himalayas, seclusion in forests, and also to a continuous effort to unlock the mysterious teachings of all great religions of the world, based on his inner direct experience. Over the years he has presented the miraculous, hidden and hard practices in a simple but effective manner, which are an invaluable gift to common man. And now, all his vivid and extensive experiences have found form in SIDDHAMRIT SURYA KRIYA YOGA.
Man has striven endlessly to realize happiness. But under deception (the Indian Maya) he has looked for this happiness away from himself i.e. in the world of sense pleasures. He has ceaselessly tried to acquire things, to please his mind and body but has continually been disillusioned. Finally, few turned unto themselves, to find whether happiness steamed from the inside of man? Eventually very few after direct experience of both the outer and the inner worlds proclaimed that true happiness was indeed within man. Such men were titled Saints, Seers and Mystics.
But why was it that only a few individuals could reach the pinnacle of the search within?
It could be that either the experimenter or his means were at fault. Perhaps, some remained satisfied only with the long lists or the theoretical knowledge of the practices, thus feeding their egos. Some hardly dared to walk, traumatized by the fear of the unknown. Some just couldn’t do away with the varied social responsibilities to find space and time to do something concrete.
Therefore, to travel inwards and reach the source of ultimate happiness the hour demands of us for a new method in the hands of the experimenter. A method that can penetrate the mist of our scientific minds, a method that is for all- (simple and effective), and most importantly which can be integrated in the dazzling pace of our daily lives. With this in his mind and to provide a real thrust to the evolution of humanity, dearest Swamiji is gifting to us,
SIDDHAMRIT SURYA KRIYA YOGA (abb. SSKY)

What is SSKY?
It can simply be referred to as a revolutionary practice, marking the beginning of a new age in our world, encompassing in its influence, the physical, the mental, the spiritual and the social aspects of man.
Foreigners knew India as a place of hermits, some weird looking sadhus, doing odd things. But the advent of certain wonderful personalities as Swami Vivekananda, Paramhansa Yogananda, Swami Rama of The Himalayas and BKS Iyenger in the West, cleared up many misconceptions regarding hermits and their practices and today Yoga as a subject is a little better understood, though it is still widely considered as a practice of some physical postures and breathing exercises. But a delve into the books of the East throws up various clues about even SSKY, being one of the foremost practices. And it may surprise us that not only Indian scriptures but also the Bible and even the Quran have signaled mysteriously towards the practice of SSKY. (It is needless to say that it won’t be referred to by this very name). To understand this esoteric practice, let’s try to grasp the meaning contained in the name itself.

Siddhamrit
This refers to a subtle region in the body (‘SAHASRAR’, the crown of the head) or at the grosser level the brain and its subsidiary bodies, from where various juices (hormones) are secreted leading to nutrition & growth.

Surya
The Sun, the ultimate energy source.
Kriya
A certain way or a method.
Yoga
Union, with the ultimate
Therefore, SSKY involves certain well-defined methods and procedures i.e. it is a complete process, to unite us with the SUN and thereafter benefit from this union.
Ø The Significance of The Sun.
It is a proved scientific fact that the SUN is the source of all the energy we (all animate & inanimate creatures) take in. This energy acquires form as the Photosynthesized food in the plants. Therefore, it is this very energy that Man and animals take in through food and nutrition. The ingested food is digested in the belly. The undigested food is either defecated or excreted as urine. The digested food then forms blood, flesh, bones, bone marrow etc. The ancient Indian Science of Medicine in the Ayurveda goes on to say that even our mind, speech & prana[A1] * are foformed from the subtle part of the digested food.
With age, normally waste products get accumulated within the body leading to the impurification of the blood and littering of body organs etc. As a result the body is reduced to a bundle of disease and decays to grow old and consequently die. Science is working day in and out to stop ageing and to find cures for all the ailments. Still, the number of diseased is only mounting up!
The solution therefore lies not in medicating the ailment, but in curing the very cause (root) of the ailment. One point is worth mentioning here that all the ailments or diseases we identify by the outcome not the cause and so we treat only the effects instead of the disease in itself.
Here, I would like to express my grudge against the doctors (only those who treat the body as a machine and rely only on incomplete knowledge of books without any human touch in it) that has grown out of a bitter experience. Few months ago a lady of nearby town visited us. She was suffering from constipation for more than three years. As a result the waste had accumulated in the intestines causing acute stomachache and many other problems. She had visited lot many doctors and hospitals just to receive heavy medication and lots of painful tests & treatments but no relief. Doctors banned her food, as she was unable to digest it (isn’t it ironical that instead of helping her to digest the food they made her deprived of food).
Anyway, finally (after three years when there was enough material collected inside for them to work long hours and big money) she was operated in a Post Graduate Research Institute by top medical practitioners to get rid of that unnecessary load. And lo, just a few days after the operation they asked her to eat bread and all she liked (not what she could digest). Anyone may guess the result; body couldn’t cope because it needed time to compensate for three long years and adjust itself back to normal. This is not all; they operated her again to create a bye pass for defecation. I really feel sad for her and pity for those doctors who work as an engineer.

All Eastern texts on medicine regard our bodies to have been formed of 5 elements like the Universe itself i.e. earth, water, fire, air, ether. The whole principle of the Indian Ayurveda or Chinese Acupuncture treatment revolves around balancing of these 5 elements. Out of these the earth and water elements are regarded as the gross elements and the latter three as the subtle ones. Our bodies predominate in the gross elements. This is quite evident from the fact we can hardly use 1/10th of the total capacity of our brain and lungs.
Greater activity of the lungs will lead to greater oxygenation and rejuvenation of the brain. We all can try to imagine what a healthy and a greatly efficient human brain (i.e. efficient upto 100%) is capable of! We won’t only have a greater control over our environment but also ourselves. It could lead to a complete control over our muscular system, our nervous system, the cardiovascular system the list goes on…. This would spell a doomsday for all our ailments and mankind could live a healthier, happier life than ever before.
But here is a catch, in coping with the hustle-bustle of this jet-age our all attention and focus is shifted to outer material world, which has reduced our inner awareness drastically. This has made our internal organs less efficient. So that even if we try to intake more of oxygen or other nutritional supplements our body would refuse rather refrain them.
So, all we have to do is to find out some method through which we could increase the capacity of our brain, lungs and heart. This is in turn possible by shifting the balance of our bodies in the favour of the subtle elements (fire, air, space). All of us subsist on food. In other words it is the ingested food that forms the elements, which in turn subsist our bodies. But our nutrition is in itself predominant in the grosser elements. The food we take in becomes unpurified[A2] as it passes through the subsequent stages of the food chain. So how is it possible to increase the subtle elements in the body by continuing with this same food?
Sri Aurobindo of Pondicherry dedicated his life working for transformation of his physical body into a form that won’t be touched by death (an immortal physical form). For this he expressed his need for a food, which would be free of waste and grosser elements and contain light or energy in its crude form. Presently the food we take only diminishes the subtle elements like fire in our bodies. This is clear from how we suffer from eating too much, more than what our bodies can hold! As this fire element diminishes the nerves, the mind and all our body organs are filled with waste and grossness. This is the cause of old-age and death.
Thus, all we have to do is to increase the fire element in our bodies. For that we need a form of food, which either predominates in this Fire Element or which is completely fire. But before switching onto a completely new form of food we’ll need a method to gradually increase the fire within ourselves so that we can completely digest the food we take at present and also are able to eliminate maximum waste from our bodies, so that it is not accumulated inside.

The source of such an aliment is the Sun and the way to ingest this food is SIDDHAMRIT SURYA KRIYA YOGA.

Now even some modern scientists have started seeing the SUN as the Energy of the Future, Medicine of the Future, Food of the Future. For instance, Dr. Jacob Liberman, O. D. , Ph. D. ( author of Light: Medicine of the Future) describes the body as a living photocell, stimulated and regulated by light. “Our lives, our health and well-being are truly dependent on the sun. The human body is nourished directly by the stimulation of sunlight or nourished indirectly by eating foods, drinking fluids, or breathing air that has been vitalized by the sun’s light energy.

The Sun in itself is Fire and its rays illuminate the Earth. So the Sun becomes our food if we can take in the energy from it directly, not indirectly through the Food Chain as we do now. Only if we can take the sun’s energy directly will the fire element inside the bodies increase leading to maximum vitalization of the body organs and thus end all our ailments and diseases.
Here are certain excerpts depicting the slowly changing attitude of modern science on the SUN.
Ø When light enters the eye, millions of light sensitive cells convert the light into electrical impulses. These impulses travel along the optic nerve to the brain where they trigger the hypothalamus gland. The hypothalamus is part of the endocrine system, which governs most autonomic bodily functions such as blood pressure, body temperature, breathing, digestion, sexual function, moods, the immune system, the aging process, and circadian rhythm. -- John Downing, O. D., Ph. D., Director of the Light Therapy Department at the Preventive Medical Center of Marin in San Rafael, California, has been conducting clinical studies on the effects of light for twenty years. According to Dr. Downing, “We cause or worsen a wide range of health problems by spending ninety percent of our lives indoors under inadequate lighting conditions.

Ø In a recent study at the Clinical Pathology Department of the National Institute of Health, it was found that lack of a balanced spectrum of light contributed to loss of muscle tone and strength. Windows, windshield, eyeglasses, smog, and suntan lotions all filter out parts of the light spectrum and contribute to this problem.

Ø Light is the basic component from which all life originates, evolves, and is energized. Light and health are inseparable. Because we have managed to disconnect ourselves from the sources of light with our fluorescent lights, indoor lifestyles, glasses, contact lenses, sunglasses, tanning lotions, flesh foods, processed foods and even cooked vegetarian diets, many of us suffer from chronic “mal-illumination.” Like malnutrition, “mal-illumination” deprives us of a level of nutrients and rhythmic stimulation that is essential for living as fully healthy humans. -- Noble Prize Laureate Dr. Szent-Gyorgi describes the essential life process as a little electrical current sent to us by the sunshine. Without light there is no health. We are human photocells whose ultimate biological nutrient is sunlight.

The light therapy which is gaining prominence in modern world, is just one of the imperfect forms of SSKY. In SSKY we can take in more of the electromagnetic spectrum and also effect its penetration deeper into the body through various efficient techniques.

3. Uniting With The Sun
Thus is it is very clear that the Sun could be used as an efficient energizer of the human system. But hardly any method has been shown so as to how we could finally unite with the Sun? This method is SSKY.
We take in gross food through our mouths but to assimilate light our eyes serve as natural gateways.
Ø The Eyes
It is basically through the eyes that one relates with the outer world. On closing the eyes, one enters his inner world that is presently full of gloom thus goes into sleep.
The Bible says: “The light of the body is your eye, when your eye is clear, your whole body is clear, your whole body is also full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.” (Luke 11:34)
Shakespeare says, “The eyes are the windows of your soul”.
It can be said that our eyes are the part of the brain that inspects the outer world. The brain, in turn is the working part of our mind. The pure mind is the soul. Therefore our eyes relate us not only to the outer world, but also to our brain, mind and soul. In other words eyes are the bridge between outer and inner world.
Though the brain and the eyes constitute just 2% of our body weight they utilize 25% of our food intake. The eyes also utilize 1/3rd of the oxygen that is availed by the heart. And it is through the subtle interactions of the eyes that we draw in PRANA from the universe the activity of the nostrils and lungs is a subsidiary process. The scientists suspect an inter relationship between mental and optical diseases. It has been found that where 9% of normal individuals suffer from the eye-diseases, 66% of the depressed, alcoholics and other mentally diseased have optical disorders.

Ø The Brain
It is still widely believed that the eyes only serve as medium to view the outer world. But present discoveries have ascertained that this function of eyes is subsidiary to that of serving as efficient medium of relaying sunrays to the hypothalamus of the brain. In fact the sunrays govern the working of the Master Gland i.e. the Pineal Gland, by affecting the hypothalamus. The Pineal Gland secretes among others a hormone called Melatonin. It has been found that the quantity of the melatonin secreted gradually increases until youth and after stabilizing here decreases until old age and then finally stops. Scientists are interlinking old age with decreasing quantity of melatonin. Also it has been found that the melatonin is secreted in the absence of sunrays and its secretion is maximum during 2-3 am. It should be remembered that during deep sleep our consciousness retreats from the eyes and rests in the heart. And since the secretion of Melatonin is at its peak during deep sleep, it can be said that malatonin helps in connecting Man’s consciousness with his inner self (during deep sleep).
Both these phases i.e. the waking state and deep sleep are closely interlinked. If the waking state is wholesome and fine the sleep state will also be deeper. Or, the more we’ll be able to draw sun’s energy, prana, food, water etc. during the waking state, greater will be the secretion of hormones like melatonin during sleep and in turn closer will be our association with our inner-self.

Even the bible tells "Light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the Sun" (Ecclesiastics 11, v. 7)

The Quran says, “Faksafna Anka Geta Aka Fab Saro Kalyavama Hadeed”.
It means that when the sunrays penetrated the curtains (retina) and entered the brain, the consciousness was drawn inwards. Before this the Man was only a materialist, disillusioning himself with the temporary happiness obtained from wordly objects.

4. The Goal of SSKY: Super Human Race
Once the process of uniting with the sun commences one starts feeling the difference in the world around. The very first is that of wiping of all physical ailments of all kinds. To follow a sequence one is freed of the diseases thus:
Cure of all optical disorders, myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism etc.
Cure of constipation, indigestion, and gastric troubles.
Cure of migraine, depression, stress, insomnia and other mental disorders.
End of all heart troubles
Cure of all hormonal disorders
This list could be meaningless to an extent because SSKY with regular and efficient practice will cure any disorder known whether it be congenital, hormonal, infectious, degenerative, immunological or even neoplastic. Though it should be cleared from the very beginning that the cure of real serious diseases as cancers will require a unique way of practice but the basic requirement is indeed regularity and efficiency in practice.

SSKY fights the roots of disease and not the mere symptoms, as does the modern medicine. So, once the disease is removed it is removed forever, for its cause within us is cured completely.
Certainly it may seem to you as a fairy tale! But in reality SSKY has something much bigger as its objective before which the cure of physical ailments is hardly a deal.
These can be considered as the bye-products of the practice of SSKY.
The concept which is going to be discussed in the following lines may seem strange to you for such a possibility has mostly been considered an impossibility upto now and many have not even given a thought to it.
So, SSKY has as its goal, attainment of a deathless, immortal physical body a body that could live on this earth upto eternity, that would be beyond destruction by any known means. In such a physical body the soul and the body will be indistinguishable.

Surprised? Impossible? Well, this is what SSKY could give us. Of course such a concept cannot be grasped by our narrow minds which presently can only ponder over how to get more and more money, a well furnished house with a beautiful mistress for it and much more… The list is unending. And SSKY aims at not only evolution of one such form but a complete race of such men. A SUPERHUMAN RACE! WE find evidences about existence of such men from various sources. Theosophy mentions Master Morya, Master Kuthumuni among others as such beings. Paramhansa Yoganada talked about Babaji Nagraj as having a youthful deathless body. However the most convincing of all such references is from the life of Ramalinga Swamigal, who dematerialized his deathless body at the end of the 19th century in Vadalur (Tamil Nadu, India) before the eyes of thousands. In his poetry he claims to have gained a deathless body, by the grace of God. His dematerialization has also been recorded in the Gazette in Vadalur and this incident was inspected by the District Magistrate with an English officer, only to be declared as true.
This is where SSKY can take us but all depends only on our want to attain such a state of evolution, leaving aside all our longings for objects of sense-gratification. The harder we practice, the more efficiently we practice quicker will be our growth. But all need not undertake this practice to attain such a goal, one can simply start with the objective of attaining a sound physical body and gradually as the practice increases the goal would automatically change, for the mind will only wander where it finds greater happiness.

Myths & Misconceptions Cleared.
It has become a norm now that any mention of assimilating energy from the sun only rouses in our mind certain vague ideas about Sun Bath or certain physical postures used to salute the Sun, being widely taught at the various Yoga classes. Some would get a little closer and regard it as gazing at the sun during sunrise and sunset. But SSKY is a completely different practice and cannot be compared to the above-mentioned inadequate and empty practices.

Ø SSKY is not SUN BATH
Today we can find crowds of people sitting on beaches with their skins exposed to the sun in search of relaxation, vitamin D, and a better skin colour. Although by this one does get close to the sun but unfortunately it can only be regarded as a spoilt and empty form of SSKY; void of any substance.
This process is like an invitation given to a king to come to one’s house. But just consider the scenario if one closes all the doors and windows of the house just at the arrival of the king. How the king would enter the house! Of course he would return back disappointed or even enraged and that would only lead to bad consequences. Similarly in our body, our head and eyes serve as doors for the sunrays to enter our brain. But by keeping the heads covered and wearing sunglasses the Sunbathers close the doors of their houses and the King cannot enter the house. In this way the sunrays are absorbed only in the upper layers of the skin. Because the rays cannot be relayed deeper into the body via the skin the benefits are scarce. Instead over exposure could lead to serious consequences like sun burns etc.
In SSKY one relays the sunrays to the deepest centers of the brain and therefore can absorb more of the sun with triplicate benefits.

Ø SSKY is not SUN GAZING
It is not plain sun gazing i.e. gazing at the rising sun primarily to improve one’s eyesight. Rather in this practice one absorbs energy from a fully illuminated sun in order to absorb complete electromagnetic spectrum in a way that is completely harmless instead pleasing and joyful and of course not just to improve one’s eyesight!

Ø SSKY is not religion oriented…
And has no superstitions attached to it. It is a completely scientific practice, verified through experiments and experiences with researches still going on. It is a medium to bring joy and happiness in our stressful lives.
Ø It is not a form of medicine…
just to cure one’s physical ailments. It goes much further than this. It is purely a spiritual practice. A simple rule is, a healthy body has a healthy mind and only a healthy mind can attain to a healthy spirit. Thus any practice that develops us spiritually must first and foremost strengthen our body and mind. (Much has been discussed under the heading THE GOAL OF SSKY)
Ø SSKY is not a new invention…..
But has been practiced since past ages by various men and women (if we can call them so). All the texts available to us from religious traditions or scientific inventions do talk about the power of Sun and also mention some way to reap its benefit. In India, SANDHYA is a must for all the so-called religious or spiritual people from very beginning back to ‘Vedic Age’. That is nothing but a semblance of SSKY, though now it has lost its original form in the cruel hands of time.


From what has been discussed up to now it is evident that SSKY is a practice for all, which spreads across all barriers. You may be an artist, a social worker, a student, someone old and diseased, someone full of youthful exuberance; this revolutionary practice is sure to fill in you renewed energy so that you can continue your work efficiently.
It doesn’t require of you anything as to change your lifestyle or to link yourself to a new tradition. All it requires is an open sky, an open heart and the SUN with which you can unite through your eyes.
Up to now we have contemplated on the “what” & “why” aspects of SSKY, but now is the time to get into the “how”. AND FOR THAT WE NEED TO MEET because if used properly atomic energy can run a powerhouse tremendously, but it could also blow a whole country drastically if dealt wrongly. It is true for all the powers and certainly for Sun-Power. So, though it’s very easy, it’s important to learn the SSKY from a certified trainer or institution.
For more information you may visit www.shabadsuratsangam.org or write to shabadsuratsangam@yahoo.com.


Grace to all!


[A1] It is the esoteric life essence. Specifically, one of the five major vayus (airs), marked by inhalation or taking in of fresh life essence; the heart, lungs, and the brain are considered to be the main seats of this vital force. Thus prana is much more than simply the breath!



[A2]This means that the essential fire element of the food is diminished. Only the plants are able to get majority of this fire element as their food are the sunrays themselves.

Sun Meditation

SIDDHAMRIT SURYA KRIYA YOGA ( Sun Meditation)

A revolutionary practice, manifested, to transform human race into a Superhuman race, to spell the end of gloom, hunger, disease, and death itself, which have now for long bounded mankind in their fatal chains. A practice, that indeed makes one perfect!

Part 1

The Beginning
Sri Swami Budhpuri ji Maharaj who represents one of the oldest orders of Sanyassis of India (i.e. The Puri order) can be hailed as the spiritual scientist, as someone who is determined to recourse the path of humanity towards the true source of Happiness.
In the last few centuries society has degraded spiritually as much as it has progressed technologically. In other words our troubles have only increased under the curtains of increasing comforts. Swamiji chose renunciation to contribute to or provide a thrust to the spiritual evolution of man, instead of limiting himself to the narrow space of Professor hood, helping only a handful of people with technological science; all this after he had gained a Master’s Degree in Technology.
To accomplish his objective Swamiji has been working tirelessly for over 35 years. His work has led him to solitary retreats in the Himalayas, seclusion in forests, and also to a continuous effort to unlock the mysterious teachings of all great religions of the world, based on his inner direct experience. Over the years he has presented the miraculous, hidden and hard practices in a simple but effective manner, which are an invaluable gift to common man. And now, all his vivid and extensive experiences have found form in SIDDHAMRIT SURYA KRIYA YOGA.
Man has striven endlessly to realize happiness. But under deception (the Indian Maya) he has looked for this happiness away from himself i.e. in the world of sense pleasures. He has ceaselessly tried to acquire things, to please his mind and body but has continually been disillusioned. Finally, few turned unto themselves, to find whether happiness steamed from the inside of man? Eventually very few after direct experience of both the outer and the inner worlds proclaimed that true happiness was indeed within man. Such men were titled Saints, Seers and Mystics.
But why was it that only a few individuals could reach the pinnacle of the search within?
It could be that either the experimenter or his means were at fault. Perhaps, some remained satisfied only with the long lists or the theoretical knowledge of the practices, thus feeding their egos. Some hardly dared to walk, traumatized by the fear of the unknown. Some just couldn’t do away with the varied social responsibilities to find space and time to do something concrete.
Therefore, to travel inwards and reach the source of ultimate happiness the hour demands of us for a new method in the hands of the experimenter. A method that can penetrate the mist of our scientific minds, a method that is for all- (simple and effective), and most importantly which can be integrated in the dazzling pace of our daily lives. With this in his mind and to provide a real thrust to the evolution of humanity, dearest Swamiji is gifting to us,
SIDDHAMRIT SURYA KRIYA YOGA (abb. SSKY)

What is SSKY?
It can simply be referred to as a revolutionary practice, marking the beginning of a new age in our world, encompassing in its influence, the physical, the mental, the spiritual and the social aspects of man.
Foreigners knew India as a place of hermits, some weird looking sadhus, doing odd things. But the advent of certain wonderful personalities as Swami Vivekananda, Paramhansa Yogananda, Swami Rama of The Himalayas and BKS Iyenger in the West, cleared up many misconceptions regarding hermits and their practices and today Yoga as a subject is a little better understood, though it is still widely considered as a practice of some physical postures and breathing exercises. But a delve into the books of the East throws up various clues about even SSKY, being one of the foremost practices. And it may surprise us that not only Indian scriptures but also the Bible and even the Quran have signaled mysteriously towards the practice of SSKY. (It is needless to say that it won’t be referred to by this very name). To understand this esoteric practice, let’s try to grasp the meaning contained in the name itself.

Siddhamrit
This refers to a subtle region in the body (‘SAHASRAR’, the crown of the head) or at the grosser level the brain and its subsidiary bodies, from where various juices (hormones) are secreted leading to nutrition & growth.

Surya
The Sun, the ultimate energy source.
Kriya
A certain way or a method.
Yoga
Union, with the ultimate
Therefore, SSKY involves certain well-defined methods and procedures i.e. it is a complete process, to unite us with the SUN and thereafter benefit from this union.
Ø The Significance of The Sun.
It is a proved scientific fact that the SUN is the source of all the energy we (all animate & inanimate creatures) take in. This energy acquires form as the Photosynthesized food in the plants. Therefore, it is this very energy that Man and animals take in through food and nutrition. The ingested food is digested in the belly. The undigested food is either defecated or excreted as urine. The digested food then forms blood, flesh, bones, bone marrow etc. The ancient Indian Science of Medicine in the Ayurveda goes on to say that even our mind, speech & prana[A1] * are foformed from the subtle part of the digested food.
With age, normally waste products get accumulated within the body leading to the impurification of the blood and littering of body organs etc. As a result the body is reduced to a bundle of disease and decays to grow old and consequently die. Science is working day in and out to stop ageing and to find cures for all the ailments. Still, the number of diseased is only mounting up!
The solution therefore lies not in medicating the ailment, but in curing the very cause (root) of the ailment. One point is worth mentioning here that all the ailments or diseases we identify by the outcome not the cause and so we treat only the effects instead of the disease in itself.
Here, I would like to express my grudge against the doctors (only those who treat the body as a machine and rely only on incomplete knowledge of books without any human touch in it) that has grown out of a bitter experience. Few months ago a lady of nearby town visited us. She was suffering from constipation for more than three years. As a result the waste had accumulated in the intestines causing acute stomachache and many other problems. She had visited lot many doctors and hospitals just to receive heavy medication and lots of painful tests & treatments but no relief. Doctors banned her food, as she was unable to digest it (isn’t it ironical that instead of helping her to digest the food they made her deprived of food).
Anyway, finally (after three years when there was enough material collected inside for them to work long hours and big money) she was operated in a Post Graduate Research Institute by top medical practitioners to get rid of that unnecessary load. And lo, just a few days after the operation they asked her to eat bread and all she liked (not what she could digest). Anyone may guess the result; body couldn’t cope because it needed time to compensate for three long years and adjust itself back to normal. This is not all; they operated her again to create a bye pass for defecation. I really feel sad for her and pity for those doctors who work as an engineer.

All Eastern texts on medicine regard our bodies to have been formed of 5 elements like the Universe itself i.e. earth, water, fire, air, ether. The whole principle of the Indian Ayurveda or Chinese Acupuncture treatment revolves around balancing of these 5 elements. Out of these the earth and water elements are regarded as the gross elements and the latter three as the subtle ones. Our bodies predominate in the gross elements. This is quite evident from the fact we can hardly use 1/10th of the total capacity of our brain and lungs.
Greater activity of the lungs will lead to greater oxygenation and rejuvenation of the brain. We all can try to imagine what a healthy and a greatly efficient human brain (i.e. efficient upto 100%) is capable of! We won’t only have a greater control over our environment but also ourselves. It could lead to a complete control over our muscular system, our nervous system, the cardiovascular system the list goes on…. This would spell a doomsday for all our ailments and mankind could live a healthier, happier life than ever before.
But here is a catch, in coping with the hustle-bustle of this jet-age our all attention and focus is shifted to outer material world, which has reduced our inner awareness drastically. This has made our internal organs less efficient. So that even if we try to intake more of oxygen or other nutritional supplements our body would refuse rather refrain them.
So, all we have to do is to find out some method through which we could increase the capacity of our brain, lungs and heart. This is in turn possible by shifting the balance of our bodies in the favour of the subtle elements (fire, air, space). All of us subsist on food. In other words it is the ingested food that forms the elements, which in turn subsist our bodies. But our nutrition is in itself predominant in the grosser elements. The food we take in becomes unpurified[A2] as it passes through the subsequent stages of the food chain. So how is it possible to increase the subtle elements in the body by continuing with this same food?
Sri Aurobindo of Pondicherry dedicated his life working for transformation of his physical body into a form that won’t be touched by death (an immortal physical form). For this he expressed his need for a food, which would be free of waste and grosser elements and contain light or energy in its crude form. Presently the food we take only diminishes the subtle elements like fire in our bodies. This is clear from how we suffer from eating too much, more than what our bodies can hold! As this fire element diminishes the nerves, the mind and all our body organs are filled with waste and grossness. This is the cause of old-age and death.
Thus, all we have to do is to increase the fire element in our bodies. For that we need a form of food, which either predominates in this Fire Element or which is completely fire. But before switching onto a completely new form of food we’ll need a method to gradually increase the fire within ourselves so that we can completely digest the food we take at present and also are able to eliminate maximum waste from our bodies, so that it is not accumulated inside.

The source of such an aliment is the Sun and the way to ingest this food is SIDDHAMRIT SURYA KRIYA YOGA.

Now even some modern scientists have started seeing the SUN as the Energy of the Future, Medicine of the Future, Food of the Future. For instance, Dr. Jacob Liberman, O. D. , Ph. D. ( author of Light: Medicine of the Future) describes the body as a living photocell, stimulated and regulated by light. “Our lives, our health and well-being are truly dependent on the sun. The human body is nourished directly by the stimulation of sunlight or nourished indirectly by eating foods, drinking fluids, or breathing air that has been vitalized by the sun’s light energy.

The Sun in itself is Fire and its rays illuminate the Earth. So the Sun becomes our food if we can take in the energy from it directly, not indirectly through the Food Chain as we do now. Only if we can take the sun’s energy directly will the fire element inside the bodies increase leading to maximum vitalization of the body organs and thus end all our ailments and diseases.
Here are certain excerpts depicting the slowly changing attitude of modern science on the SUN.
Ø When light enters the eye, millions of light sensitive cells convert the light into electrical impulses. These impulses travel along the optic nerve to the brain where they trigger the hypothalamus gland. The hypothalamus is part of the endocrine system, which governs most autonomic bodily functions such as blood pressure, body temperature, breathing, digestion, sexual function, moods, the immune system, the aging process, and circadian rhythm. -- John Downing, O. D., Ph. D., Director of the Light Therapy Department at the Preventive Medical Center of Marin in San Rafael, California, has been conducting clinical studies on the effects of light for twenty years. According to Dr. Downing, “We cause or worsen a wide range of health problems by spending ninety percent of our lives indoors under inadequate lighting conditions.

Ø In a recent study at the Clinical Pathology Department of the National Institute of Health, it was found that lack of a balanced spectrum of light contributed to loss of muscle tone and strength. Windows, windshield, eyeglasses, smog, and suntan lotions all filter out parts of the light spectrum and contribute to this problem.

Ø Light is the basic component from which all life originates, evolves, and is energized. Light and health are inseparable. Because we have managed to disconnect ourselves from the sources of light with our fluorescent lights, indoor lifestyles, glasses, contact lenses, sunglasses, tanning lotions, flesh foods, processed foods and even cooked vegetarian diets, many of us suffer from chronic “mal-illumination.” Like malnutrition, “mal-illumination” deprives us of a level of nutrients and rhythmic stimulation that is essential for living as fully healthy humans. -- Noble Prize Laureate Dr. Szent-Gyorgi describes the essential life process as a little electrical current sent to us by the sunshine. Without light there is no health. We are human photocells whose ultimate biological nutrient is sunlight.

The light therapy which is gaining prominence in modern world, is just one of the imperfect forms of SSKY. In SSKY we can take in more of the electromagnetic spectrum and also effect its penetration deeper into the body through various efficient techniques.

3. Uniting With The Sun
Thus is it is very clear that the Sun could be used as an efficient energizer of the human system. But hardly any method has been shown so as to how we could finally unite with the Sun? This method is SSKY.
We take in gross food through our mouths but to assimilate light our eyes serve as natural gateways.
Ø The Eyes
It is basically through the eyes that one relates with the outer world. On closing the eyes, one enters his inner world that is presently full of gloom thus goes into sleep.
The Bible says: “The light of the body is your eye, when your eye is clear, your whole body is clear, your whole body is also full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.” (Luke 11:34)
Shakespeare says, “The eyes are the windows of your soul”.
It can be said that our eyes are the part of the brain that inspects the outer world. The brain, in turn is the working part of our mind. The pure mind is the soul. Therefore our eyes relate us not only to the outer world, but also to our brain, mind and soul. In other words eyes are the bridge between outer and inner world.
Though the brain and the eyes constitute just 2% of our body weight they utilize 25% of our food intake. The eyes also utilize 1/3rd of the oxygen that is availed by the heart. And it is through the subtle interactions of the eyes that we draw in PRANA from the universe the activity of the nostrils and lungs is a subsidiary process. The scientists suspect an inter relationship between mental and optical diseases. It has been found that where 9% of normal individuals suffer from the eye-diseases, 66% of the depressed, alcoholics and other mentally diseased have optical disorders.

Ø The Brain
It is still widely believed that the eyes only serve as medium to view the outer world. But present discoveries have ascertained that this function of eyes is subsidiary to that of serving as efficient medium of relaying sunrays to the hypothalamus of the brain. In fact the sunrays govern the working of the Master Gland i.e. the Pineal Gland, by affecting the hypothalamus. The Pineal Gland secretes among others a hormone called Melatonin. It has been found that the quantity of the melatonin secreted gradually increases until youth and after stabilizing here decreases until old age and then finally stops. Scientists are interlinking old age with decreasing quantity of melatonin. Also it has been found that the melatonin is secreted in the absence of sunrays and its secretion is maximum during 2-3 am. It should be remembered that during deep sleep our consciousness retreats from the eyes and rests in the heart. And since the secretion of Melatonin is at its peak during deep sleep, it can be said that malatonin helps in connecting Man’s consciousness with his inner self (during deep sleep).
Both these phases i.e. the waking state and deep sleep are closely interlinked. If the waking state is wholesome and fine the sleep state will also be deeper. Or, the more we’ll be able to draw sun’s energy, prana, food, water etc. during the waking state, greater will be the secretion of hormones like melatonin during sleep and in turn closer will be our association with our inner-self.

Even the bible tells "Light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the Sun" (Ecclesiastics 11, v. 7)

The Quran says, “Faksafna Anka Geta Aka Fab Saro Kalyavama Hadeed”.
It means that when the sunrays penetrated the curtains (retina) and entered the brain, the consciousness was drawn inwards. Before this the Man was only a materialist, disillusioning himself with the temporary happiness obtained from wordly objects.

4. The Goal of SSKY: Super Human Race
Once the process of uniting with the sun commences one starts feeling the difference in the world around. The very first is that of wiping of all physical ailments of all kinds. To follow a sequence one is freed of the diseases thus:
Cure of all optical disorders, myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism etc.
Cure of constipation, indigestion, and gastric troubles.
Cure of migraine, depression, stress, insomnia and other mental disorders.
End of all heart troubles
Cure of all hormonal disorders
This list could be meaningless to an extent because SSKY with regular and efficient practice will cure any disorder known whether it be congenital, hormonal, infectious, degenerative, immunological or even neoplastic. Though it should be cleared from the very beginning that the cure of real serious diseases as cancers will require a unique way of practice but the basic requirement is indeed regularity and efficiency in practice.

SSKY fights the roots of disease and not the mere symptoms, as does the modern medicine. So, once the disease is removed it is removed forever, for its cause within us is cured completely.
Certainly it may seem to you as a fairy tale! But in reality SSKY has something much bigger as its objective before which the cure of physical ailments is hardly a deal.
These can be considered as the bye-products of the practice of SSKY.
The concept which is going to be discussed in the following lines may seem strange to you for such a possibility has mostly been considered an impossibility upto now and many have not even given a thought to it.
So, SSKY has as its goal, attainment of a deathless, immortal physical body a body that could live on this earth upto eternity, that would be beyond destruction by any known means. In such a physical body the soul and the body will be indistinguishable.

Surprised? Impossible? Well, this is what SSKY could give us. Of course such a concept cannot be grasped by our narrow minds which presently can only ponder over how to get more and more money, a well furnished house with a beautiful mistress for it and much more… The list is unending. And SSKY aims at not only evolution of one such form but a complete race of such men. A SUPERHUMAN RACE! WE find evidences about existence of such men from various sources. Theosophy mentions Master Morya, Master Kuthumuni among others as such beings. Paramhansa Yoganada talked about Babaji Nagraj as having a youthful deathless body. However the most convincing of all such references is from the life of Ramalinga Swamigal, who dematerialized his deathless body at the end of the 19th century in Vadalur (Tamil Nadu, India) before the eyes of thousands. In his poetry he claims to have gained a deathless body, by the grace of God. His dematerialization has also been recorded in the Gazette in Vadalur and this incident was inspected by the District Magistrate with an English officer, only to be declared as true.
This is where SSKY can take us but all depends only on our want to attain such a state of evolution, leaving aside all our longings for objects of sense-gratification. The harder we practice, the more efficiently we practice quicker will be our growth. But all need not undertake this practice to attain such a goal, one can simply start with the objective of attaining a sound physical body and gradually as the practice increases the goal would automatically change, for the mind will only wander where it finds greater happiness.

Myths & Misconceptions Cleared.
It has become a norm now that any mention of assimilating energy from the sun only rouses in our mind certain vague ideas about Sun Bath or certain physical postures used to salute the Sun, being widely taught at the various Yoga classes. Some would get a little closer and regard it as gazing at the sun during sunrise and sunset. But SSKY is a completely different practice and cannot be compared to the above-mentioned inadequate and empty practices.

Ø SSKY is not SUN BATH
Today we can find crowds of people sitting on beaches with their skins exposed to the sun in search of relaxation, vitamin D, and a better skin colour. Although by this one does get close to the sun but unfortunately it can only be regarded as a spoilt and empty form of SSKY; void of any substance.
This process is like an invitation given to a king to come to one’s house. But just consider the scenario if one closes all the doors and windows of the house just at the arrival of the king. How the king would enter the house! Of course he would return back disappointed or even enraged and that would only lead to bad consequences. Similarly in our body, our head and eyes serve as doors for the sunrays to enter our brain. But by keeping the heads covered and wearing sunglasses the Sunbathers close the doors of their houses and the King cannot enter the house. In this way the sunrays are absorbed only in the upper layers of the skin. Because the rays cannot be relayed deeper into the body via the skin the benefits are scarce. Instead over exposure could lead to serious consequences like sun burns etc.
In SSKY one relays the sunrays to the deepest centers of the brain and therefore can absorb more of the sun with triplicate benefits.

Ø SSKY is not SUN GAZING
It is not plain sun gazing i.e. gazing at the rising sun primarily to improve one’s eyesight. Rather in this practice one absorbs energy from a fully illuminated sun in order to absorb complete electromagnetic spectrum in a way that is completely harmless instead pleasing and joyful and of course not just to improve one’s eyesight!

Ø SSKY is not religion oriented…
And has no superstitions attached to it. It is a completely scientific practice, verified through experiments and experiences with researches still going on. It is a medium to bring joy and happiness in our stressful lives.
Ø It is not a form of medicine…
just to cure one’s physical ailments. It goes much further than this. It is purely a spiritual practice. A simple rule is, a healthy body has a healthy mind and only a healthy mind can attain to a healthy spirit. Thus any practice that develops us spiritually must first and foremost strengthen our body and mind. (Much has been discussed under the heading THE GOAL OF SSKY)
Ø SSKY is not a new invention…..
But has been practiced since past ages by various men and women (if we can call them so). All the texts available to us from religious traditions or scientific inventions do talk about the power of Sun and also mention some way to reap its benefit. In India, SANDHYA is a must for all the so-called religious or spiritual people from very beginning back to ‘Vedic Age’. That is nothing but a semblance of SSKY, though now it has lost its original form in the cruel hands of time.


From what has been discussed up to now it is evident that SSKY is a practice for all, which spreads across all barriers. You may be an artist, a social worker, a student, someone old and diseased, someone full of youthful exuberance; this revolutionary practice is sure to fill in you renewed energy so that you can continue your work efficiently.
It doesn’t require of you anything as to change your lifestyle or to link yourself to a new tradition. All it requires is an open sky, an open heart and the SUN with which you can unite through your eyes.
Up to now we have contemplated on the “what” & “why” aspects of SSKY, but now is the time to get into the “how”. AND FOR THAT WE NEED TO MEET because if used properly atomic energy can run a powerhouse tremendously, but it could also blow a whole country drastically if dealt wrongly. It is true for all the powers and certainly for Sun-Power. So, though it’s very easy, it’s important to learn the SSKY from a certified trainer or institution.
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Grace to all!


[A1] It is the esoteric life essence. Specifically, one of the five major vayus (airs), marked by inhalation or taking in of fresh life essence; the heart, lungs, and the brain are considered to be the main seats of this vital force. Thus prana is much more than simply the breath!



[A2]This means that the essential fire element of the food is diminished. Only the plants are able to get majority of this fire element as their food are the sunrays themselves.