Ke Chari
Ke Chari
Ke Chari
When you start getting connected to the roots of Hatha and Tantra Yoga, Tibetian
Buddhism, Kashmir Sivaism and Sri Vidya you find the mystics of Matsyendra as a main
soucre
One key way to practise is Kechari Mudra. Even today it can be a key practice underlaying
all your other practices, Asana Pranayama, Meditation to transform your energetic body
In order to effect khecari mudra, the yogi forces the tip of his tongue back and upwards
into the opening at the back of the palette. Then, by concentrating his gaze inwardly to a
point between the eyebrows, he causes his capititalized nectar to flow, via the sankhini
[nadi], into the throat, where he drinks it. This process was explained to me by a young
yogin of the Juna Akhada...As he described it all depended on forcing the godess
[kundalini] up into the head, from hence the rain of necatar would flood down into the
body David White
Juna Akhada we know are the Naga Babas, the naked one or just scrubbed with ashes on
the Kumbha Mela festival.
Like we know from other Yoga practises and even from sexuality it is not so much a
forcing but a sliding in. Even though we should add some key details to start the
practises on a deeper level before doing anything else you should work on getting your
tongue back upwards into the nasal cavity.
Traditions like Kashmir Saivism developed more subtle practices or even non-dualistic
'no-practises' with the aim to grasp the knowledge the insight, the jnana, of the physical
practices to develop a more direct spiritual paths or a vidya.
Kechari Mudra means 'Flying through space'.
As a more subtle practise Kechari becomes a sonic practise or an uccara, an upliftment.
If you start using mantra in a way to connect your heart with the dvatasanta, the twelf
finger point above your head or the yogini vaktra, the mouth of the yogini, than you
might experience Kechari as a garland of the ladder
The yogi should make repeated use of the flow of sonic consciousness which is the garland of the ladder that
runs to the point between the eyebrows, the end of sound and power which one expanding and free of
restrictions is perpetually unfolding (Tantra Loka, Abhinavagupa)
In the classic text Vijnana Bhairava you can experience Kechari as the hidden Bhairava
mystic as Bhairava rupa, an energetic formation or svarupa like a subtle feeling of a
funnel between heart and head.
Sutra or dharana 25 explains you should concentrate on the two points continuously and
bhairvia bhairavi bhairavasya vapuh viyate .
The energetic formation of Bhairava will perpetually appear inside your pranic body.
of Goddess Kali). Sometimes cutting the frenulum (a mucousmembrane extending from the floor of the mouth to the
midline of the underside of the tongue) is necessary. Else, pull or move your tongue around constantly. When it gets
long enough, to reach the point between the eyebrows, then Kechari becomes possible.
36. The frenulum is cut 1/2 millimeter each day and the wound is sealed. In 6months, the tongue becomes free & quite
long.