6. Līūnasī Meditation
Based on the June Mamsani
Follow Gurudeva’s advice: “There are thousands of miles of nerve currents in each of us. Don’t try to feel them all at once. Start with the little ones, with the feeling of the hands. Now, feel the life force going through these nerves energizing the body. Try to sense the subtle nerves that extend out and around the body about three or four feet. Tune into the currents of life force as they flow through these nerves. This is a subtle feeling, and most likely awareness will wander into some other area of the mind. When this happens, gently bring it back to your point of concentration, to feeling the nerves within the body and the energy within the nerves.” §
In Shūm§
līūnasī§
Quote from Gurudeva§
Inhaling Prana is not air, of course, yet it is contained in the air in a certain manifestation. Much prana is found in the air among the trees or near the ocean. All of nature and the forces of nature are various manifestations of odic prana that have taken visual shape. Plants feed on the odic prana in the air. You can absorb prana simply by walking through a grove of trees. The air is filled with it. Take a walk today, out into the odic force field of nature and absorb the prana in the air through your breath and through the pores of your skin. You will feel the prana entering into your pranic sheath, or vital health body, and remaining there while you exhale.§
Supplementary Reading§
Twelve Shum Meditations §
Shum-Tyeif Mamsani for the Month of June§
Nīfmasī līūnasī is the sixth mamsanī of the year. Nīfmasī is a portrait of the sixth dimension, and the meaning has to be experienced to be known. It means that the inner body of the soul is alive and conscious in the physical body and to some degree is taking over the elements of the physical body because you have put the physical body into a certain position. Nīfmasī also names this position, this sixth-dimensional position of the body where you can feel the power of the soul, the body of the superconscious that we study about so intently in The Master Course. The nīfmasī position is sitting with your right foot on your left thigh— you put that leg up first, and then you put your left foot on the right thigh. Your hands are placed in your lap, the right hand resting on the left, palms up, tips of the thumbs touching softly. The spine is, of course, straight, and the head is balanced at the top of the spine.§
Sometimes in the practice of nīfmasī, great pain is experienced in the joints, muscles and ligaments. It is recommended, within the realms of wisdom, to experience some of this pain, because the inner elements are adjusting the outer elements of the body, and you are working out deep subconscious areas that may have been accumulating within you for many, many lives. This is a very important position and should be worked at until you can sit comfortably in nīfmasī and feel the power of the soul for a half-hour or an hour or more without moving. So, work diligently with this posture while meditating upon this mamsanī. §
Sitting in nīfmasī makes it easy to come into the next area, which is named by the fourth-dimensional portrait līūnasī. Līūnasī refers to feeling the nerve currents of the body. There are thousands of miles of nerve currents in each of us. Don’t try to feel them all at once. Start with the little ones, with the feeling of the hands, thumbs touching. Now feel the life force going through these nerves, energizing the body. Try to sense the even more subtle nerves that extend out and around the body about three or four feet. This may take a long time. When you have located some of these nerves, feel the energy within them. Tune into the currents of life force as they flow through these nerves. This is a subtle feeling, and most likely awareness will wander into some other area of the mind. When this happens, gently bring it back to your point of concentration, to feeling the nerves within the body and the energy within the nerves. This mamsanī, then, tells us that if we sit in nīfmasī, we bring the power of the soul into prominence in the physical body and allow awareness to flow quite naturally into the līūnasī area. The flowing line between nīfmasī and līūnasī means awareness traveling from one area of mind to another, and its name is nīīmf.§
nīfmasī 
43.29.16§
1) The traditional meditation posture in haṭha yoga, called lotus or padmāsana; 2) first, place the right foot on the left thigh, then place the left foot on the right thigh; 3) the spine is held straight with the head balanced on top; 4) the hands are resting in the lap, palms up and open, right hand on top, with the thumbs gently touching in dhyāna mudrā; 5) the twenty-fourth and last pose of the special series of haṭha yoga postures known as namtyēmbī.§
nīīmf» 
06.46.148§
1) Awareness flowing through the mind, being singularly aware of one area and then another; 2) one of the many forms of awareness delineated in Shūm; 3) represented in mamsanī maā and mambashūm maā by a flowing line between portraits; 4) pronounced nīīmf, often pronounced and written simply as nīmf. §
līūnasī 
05.14.15.16§
1) Astral; feeling life force flowing through nerves; 2) feeling energy flowing through the network of nerves within your physical body and subtle body; 3) energy flow, psychic nerves, nerve currents; 4) life flowing through the nervous system creates the feeling of līūnasī; 5) sitting in līshūmnambī ūlīsim, striving to locate this basic instinctive energy flow within your body and subtle bodies; 6) “In the heart is the ātman; here are the hundred and one arteries to each of which belong a hundred other arteries, and to each of these belong 72,000 small branches; in those moves the diffused breath” (Ṛig Veda, Kaushītaki Upanishad).§
Additional Resources§
Merging with Śiva, Lesson 257: Overcoming Karma§