Khecari Mudra / Nutrition Sense Retracted
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Date: Posted 3 years before Jan 03, 2017
MiBeloved 3 years ago
This morning I got a message from Lahiri Baba about khecari mudra practice. He said that the purpose of it was to draw up the nutritional urges in the subtle body.
What are these urges?
These concern more than just the tasting sense. From the onset as soon as a living entity leaves the causal plane, initially, there arises this need for nourishment. At once a sense grows out of the self which begins to grasp on whatever exists which provide nutrients for the subtle body. Over time this develops into an organism which seeks out fulfillments in whatever environment it happens to find itself in.
Naad meditation is the center of this practice. First naad meditation as a sound current detection and absorption process; then naad meditation with light all around, especially in the front part of the subtle head. Then there is the pushing of the tongue back to the soft palate. Then meditation on this, on the three actions of hearing naad, seeing naad light, and making sense contact of the tip of the tongue to the soft palate.
This last action has within it the tasting sense, the touching sense and the smelling sense, which means that all five senses are captured with the hearing sense captured in naad, and the visual sense captured by naad light in the front of the subtle head, and the other three senses captured at the focal point where the tip of the tongue is driven back into the soft palate.
If one does a thorough breath infusion practice beforehand, right before the meditation session, and if the energies of the psyche are uniform throughout, then this tongue press back action will result in the causal nutrition sense being arrested which will cause any wayward sensual energies which are outside the grasp of the core-self, to be retracted. This is the full arrest of the system which qualifies the student to begin Patanjali higher yoga process of samyama superior inSelf yoga.
Here is a diagram:
The student keeps this meditation going until chit akash sky of consciousness dawns.
