Contact!!!

Jaldhar H. Vyas jaldhar at BRAINCELLS.COM
Thu Sep 25 23:35:21 CDT 1997


On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Nanda Kumar wrote:

> I hope I'm not asking a trivial question here. Anyway here it is.
>
> When doing meditation, in whatever position, is it necessary to touch
> your thumb with the finger next to the little finger? Somebody once told
> me that some sort of energy is created by this contact! Another day I
> saw on TV that only the primates can do this!
>

It is called dhyana mudra.  There are many such mudras which have
different symbolic meanings.  For this dhyana mudra I have heard it
represents the purusha and prakriti of Samkhya philosophy.

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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