The Yogi With NO Heartbeat! (Ancient Secret Exposed)

The Yogi With NO Heartbeat! (Ancient Secret Exposed)

Author Name:Vismaya

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Transcript:
(00:00) Can you stop your heart just by thinking about it? Slowing your heartbeat to the extent that it stops, but you're still alive. In an experiment, a yogi voluntarily stopped his heart for 17 long seconds. But later he stood up and explained that he was using an ancient practice.
(00:22) He mentioned that not only can he stop his heart but he could also increase or decrease the temperature or even leave his body entirely and come back whenever he chooses to. And this is just one example. There have been many yogis who have used this technique to survive without food for medical healing and even for conscious departure also called mahas samadhi.
(00:44) But what he did that afternoon shouldn't be possible. Not according to everything modern medicine believes about the human body. We live inside a body we don't control. Your heart beats, digestion runs, all without permission. So when someone demonstrate control over those systems, it challenges the most basic assumption we have about being human.
(01:05) In this video, we are going to explore the techniques used by ancient people to stop the heart. And later in the video, we will also understand what made them choose to do so. The ancient Indians actually had a name for cardiac suspension. They called it hya stambhana. But stopping the heart was never the god.
(01:26) It was simply a natural outcome of deep yogic practice. They didn't treat it as a miracle. They treated it as a skill, something that could be learned. And in the ancient text, this wasn't seen as something extraordinary. It was considered a milestone, a checkpoint that told you that your practice was working. Think about that.
(01:45) In a tradition thousands of years old, stopping your heart was just one item on a longer list of things a serious practitioner was expected to eventually master. The entire practice sat inside a much larger system called pranayams, the conscious control of breath. And the foundational idea behind all of it was simple but radical.
(02:04) Your breath and your mind are two expressions of same force. When one becomes still, the other follows. In the yoga sutras of Patanjli, pranayam is not defined as breathing exercises but as the controlled sessation of inhalation and exhalation. The original Sanskrit word used is vitanli describes four states of breath.
(02:28) The first three involves conscious effort. You intentionally hold your breath, use specific ratios, apply muscular locks. But the fourth level is different. The fourth level called cable kumbak is when the breath stops on its own without effort or force because the mind has become so still that the body simply pauses.
(02:52) To understand why the breath stops, the yoga assist explains that mind and life force move together like two wheels on a car. When the mind becomes still, the breath naturally slows and suspends. When the breath is still through kumbak, the mind also quiets. In cable kumba, concentration becomes so stable that metabolic demand drops and the urge to breathe fades because mental fluctuations have ceased.
(03:15) In yogic philosophy, demise is the withdrawal of pr usually involuntary. In cable kumbaka, pran is described as remaining internally balanced in the sushumna while breathing is suspended and awareness stays present. This is why it is linked to overcoming fear of demise. mentioned in the yoga sutras of Patanjali.
(03:37) The practitioner directly sees that awareness is not dependent on the breathing process. The hutter yoga praipika says something remarkable about this state. It says that for the yogi who has mastered kal kumbak nothing in the three worlds is beyond reach and the fear of demise is conquered because the practitioner has learned to replicate the state of demise while remaining fully conscious.
(04:01) So how do you get there? The ancient texts describe a progression of techniques, each one building on the last. Now there's a second technique, but it is highly advised to learn this from an experienced teacher and it is advised to not try this at home. It's called kichi mudra and it involves curling the tongue backward pass the soft pallet until it reaches inside the nasal cavity.
(04:26) To make the tongue long enough to do this, practitioners would stretch it daily, sometimes for months or years. In certain lineages, they would even gradually cut the frenulum, the thin tissue that connects the tongue to the floor of the mouth to allow it to extend further. It sounds extreme, and it is, but the claim in the scripture is that stimulating the tissue at the back of the nasal cavity near the pituitary gland produces cascading hormonal and neurological changes.
(04:55) Some modern researchers think this may interact with spino palatine ganglion, a nerve cluster involved in autonomic regulation. Whether that fully explains the phenomena is still an open question. Put these techniques together, the breath retention, the muscular lock, the pressure points. And what you have is not mysticism.
(05:15) It's a systematic method of hijacking the autonomic nervous system. Modern science calls it veagal nerve stimulation. The yogis called it mastery of prana. And here's where the story gets harder to dismiss. In 1988, a yogi named Satya Morti was buried underground in a sealed pit. No food, no water, no fresh air for 8 days. When they opened the pit, he was alive.
(05:38) In 2000, researchers at Harvard Medical School documented Tibetan monks using a meditation technique called tumo to raise their body temperature by 17° F. Using only their minds, they were able to dry wet sheets wrapped around their bodies in a freezing room. What these yogis were doing through breath retention, muscular locks, and specific pressure points was essentially hacking the vagus nerve, manually overriding the system that runs automatically.
(06:07) Skeptics call it walwva maneuver, a known reflex where bearing down increases pressure and briefly slows the heart. And yes, that's part of the mechanism. But the Wulva maneuver doesn't explain 17° of body temperature control. It doesn't explain a complete cardiac flatline with full recovery. These cases remain, as one researcher put it, an unexamined gauntlet thrown at the feet of modern medicine.
(06:33) Why would anyone do this? That's the question that changes everything. Because if you only frame this as a physical feat, stopping hard, raising temperature, it looks like circus act. impressive but pointless. But that's not what it is for for the practitioner. Every one of these techniques was a step toward one specific destination.
(06:52) Mahas samadhi, conscious departure from the body, not demise as we understand it, but a deliberate chosen exit. We've talked about Mahas samadhi in detail in one of the previous videos. Those who are interested can check it out. The logic is simple. If you've practiced stopping your heart and restarting it, if you've learned to lower your metabolism so far that you can survive without food, then the final transition isn't terrifying anymore.
(07:17) You've already been to the edge. You know what it feels like and you know how to come back until one day you choose not to. So, this was never just about controlling the heart. It was about removing the deepest human fear. The fear of losing control when life ends. at the boundary between being alive and not.
(07:40) These practitioners were turning the unknown into something familiar. For most of us, the body is something that happens to us. For them, it was something that could be understood, trained, and ultimately mastered. And that leaves us with one unsettling question. How many of the limits we accept as humans are truly real? And how many are simply untrained?