Talk:Sudarshan Kriya
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1 writes: Hi want to know about your Yoga classes
2: under it's present state this article is more of an advertisement than an encyclopedic entry. Main points made in the article are not verifiable.
3: Another reader writes: The points made about Sudarshan Kriya can be verified by regular practice. Even 2 such experiences during the Part 1 course can give extraordinary insight into the unknown in your very Self.
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Wikipedia is not even as good as discussion group. The discussion group, atleast, gives the source and most of members are known to other members. Anyone can put anything. This is nothing more than an ad. Even the very first word: Sudarshan and Kriya are not explained. How are English Speaking or even all the Indians are supposed to know the exact meaning of these words? Some call it Healing Breath Techniques. How does it translate to Sudarshan Kriya? No one bothered to explain the very first words in the title.
NOTE: Sudarshan Kriya = Proper vision through dynamic action.
This article on sudarshan kriya is not objective and it is not accurately instructional. It fails to provide non-biased information and as such fails to qualify as an encyclopedic entry. This article is little more than an evangelical advertisement. Dunn.sanfrancisco 21:22, 31 August 2006 (UTC)dunn.sanfrancisco
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The veracity of the claim that sudarshankriya is not just a duplication of existing pranayama techniques in Yoga needs to be contested. My view point is that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has not discovered anything new here, and is just using a centuries old breathing technique under Yoga. In patent parlance, his technique has obvious prior art.
NOTE: Sudarshan Kriya is not dissimilar from ancient techniques. It is, however, unique.
This Sudarshan Kriya is different than a pranayama. There is a definite distinction between any kriya and any pranayama in the ancient Yogic science. That is the reason there are two different names. Additionally, if Sudarshan Kriya was same as any other kriya, this would have been revealed by the Yogi/tradition/his or her devotees with which it resembles, this has never happened. The claims that it is not different are made only by those who lack the complete knowledge on the ancient Science of breath/Yoga Sadhana. It is usually based on their incomplete knowledge of this profound science. In patent parlance, it is not about the connection of the mind and the breath but a specific way to bring the mind to a deep relaxed state using a specific breathing technique. As such the use of breath to regulate and control the consciousness is ancient, but a specific technique revealed by a Master of Yoga for a certain effect is different. It is quiet naive by purporting that someone just came up with ancient technique; it just trivializes the profundity of any technique as well as the the one who revealed it. Proper education, research and experience has to go concomitantly before making any of such random claims.
Since this page was nominated for a neutrality check, I have slightly changed the last paragraph, inserting the word 'supposedly' as there is no evidence cited to prove the statement that the pranayam actually removes the 'turmoil in the mind'. I have also mentioned the names of the pranayama techniques that are done along with the Sudarshan Kriya, Bhastrika Pranayama and Ujjayi breath and I have put up their wikilinks too. Complexvanilla 16:54, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
