Mudra Vigyan ( The science of finger postures )

The whole creation is composed of five elements; earth, water, fire, air and ether. The same way also a human body is composed of five elements. Imbalance of the five elements in our body makes it sick. It’s also accepted by Chinese medicine systems, acupressure and acupuncture systems. Because of the ignorance of this fact modern lifestyle and luxurious life living people get easily affected by many different aliments. Not only physical but they also get affected by mental aliments too. Day by day the list of new diseases is becoming bigger. There are many diseases for which no medicines are available; asthma, migraine, arthritis few to be named. When you visit a doctor, he advices some chemicals and you need to spend a lot for that. Also these chemicals give many side effects. You take medicine for one disease but it develops another disease and damages other body parts. Like the medicine for flu damages your liver and intestine.

For the diseases modern science has developed many medicines but also ancient Vedic system provides technics through which you can recover without taking any medicine at all. The Rishis after their long research developed all these technics for the benefit of the humanity. The sages have developed many miraculous technics to heal not only the body but also the mind and integrated them together with spirituality. Santana dharma starts from betterment of the body and takes the seeker till self-realisation. The rishis advice about Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha; by fowling Dharma you get material prosperity, by getting prosperity you fulfil your desires, after fulfilling material desires a wise person moves towards self-realization.

First of all Vedic system teaches you to be healthy. Rishis always kept mudras in the beginning of spiritual rituals. It has been said that you get virtue by doing mudras. Performing the mudras to showing them to the deity is a primary requirement in the ritual.

• There 24 mudras needed to do Gayatri Mantra japa
• There are different mudras for evening
• In the worship of Shri Yantra and Shri Vidya mudras play an important role.
• Mudras are also very necessary in worshiping lord Shiva
• In Yoga it is said Mudara is much more powerful than asana

Mudras are the developed form of asanas, mudras are much more beneficial than asanas. There are many asanas which everybody cannot do but mudras are simple so everybody can practice them. In asanas body is the primary focus but in mudras prana is the major focus.

In this world there is no other technic which is more effective than mudras to heal the body and mind. If you want a healthy life, peaceful mind and joy full life then you should implement mudras in your daily life.