The Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā — trans. Pancham Sinh (1915)
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Then rock salt and yellow myrobalan (both powdered) should be rubbed in. On the 7th day, it should again be cut a hair’s breadth. 35.
One should go on doing thus, regularly for six months. At the end of six months, the fraenum of the tongue will be completely cut. 36.
Turning the tongue upwards, it is fixed on the three ways (oesophagus, windpipe and palate.) Thus it makes the Khechari Mudra, and is called the Vyoma Chakra. 37.
The Yogi who sits for a minute turning his tongue upwards, is saved from poisons, diseases, death, old age, etc. 38.
He who knows the Khechari Mudra is not afflicted with disease, death, sloth, sleep, hunger, thirst, and swooning. 39.
He who knows the Khechari Mudra, is not troubled hy diseases, is not stained with karmas, and is not snared by time. 40.
The Siddhas have devised this Khechari Mudra from the fact that the mind and the tongue reach akasa by its practice. 41.
If the hole behind the palate be stopped with Khechari by turning the tongue upwards, then bindu cannot leave its place even if a woman were embraced. 42.
If the Yogi drinks Somarasa (juice) by sitting with the tongue turned backwards and mind concentrated, there is no doubt he conquers death within 15 days. 43.
If the Yogi, whose body is full of Somarasa (juice), were bitten by
Takshaka (snake), its poison cannot permeate his body. 44.
As fire is inseparably connected with the wood and light is connected with the wick and oil, so does the soul not leave the body full of nectar exuding from the Soma. 45.
Note.—Soma (Chandra) is described later on located in the thousand-petalled lotus in the human brain, and is the same as is seen on Sivas’ head in pictures, and from which a sort of juice exudes. It is the retaining of this exudation which makes one immortal.
Those who eat the flesh of the (cow) and drink the immortal liquor daily, are regarded by me men of noble family. Others are but a disgrace to their families. 46.
Note.—कृतार्थौ पितरौ तेन धन्यो देशः कुलं च तत् । जायते योगवान्यत्र दत्तमक्षय्यतां व्रजेत् ॥ दृष्टः संभाषितः स्पृष्टः पुंप्रकृत्या विवेकवान् । भवकोटि शतापातं पुनाति वृजिनं नृणाम् ॥ ब्रह्मवैवर्ते
Translation : Fortunate are the parents and blessed is the country and the family where a Yogi is born. Anything given to such a Yogi, becomes immortal. One, who discriminates between Purusa and Prakriti, purges the sins of a million incarnations, by seeing, speaking, and touching such men (i.e., Yogi.)
A Yogi far exceeds a thousand householders, a hundred vanaprasthas, and a thousand Brahmacharis.
Who can know the reality of the Raja Yoga? That country is very sacred where resides a man who knows it. By seeing and honouring him, generations of ignorant men get moksa, what to speak of those who are actually engaged in it. He who knows internal and external yoga, deserves adoration from you and me, what if he is adored by the rest of mankind !
Those who engage in the great yoga, once, twice or thrice daily, are to be known as masters of great wealth (maheshwaras) or Lords.
The word गो means tongue; eating it is thrusting it in the gullet which destroys great sins. 47,
Immortal liquor is the nectar exuding from the moon (Chandra situated on the left side of the space between the eyebrows). It is produced by the fire which is generated by thrusting the tongue. 48.
If the tongue can touch with its end the hole from which falls the rasa (juice) which is saltish, bitter, sour, milky and similar to ghee and honey, one can drive away disease, destroy old age, can evade an attack of arms, become immortal in eight ways and can attract fairies. 49.
He who drinks the clear stream of liquor of the moon (soma) falling from the brain to the sixteen-petalled lotus (in the heart), obtained by means of Prana, by applying the tongue to the hole of the pendant in the palate, and by meditating on the great power (Kundalini), becomes free from disease and tender in body, like the stalk of a lotus, and the Yogi lives a very long life. 50.
On the top of the Meru (vertebral column), concealed in a hole, is the Somarasa (nectar of Chandra); the wise, whose intellect is not overpowered by Raja and Tama gunas, but in whom Satwa guna is predominant, say there is the (universal spirit) atma in it. It is the source of the down-going Ida, Pingala and Susumna Nadis, which are the Ganges, the Yamuna and the Sarasvati. From that Chandra is shed the essence of the body which causes death of men. It should, therefore, be stopped from shedding. This (Khechari Mudra) is a very good instrument for this purpose. There is no other means of achieving this end. 51.
This hole is the generator of knowledge and is the source of the five streams (Ida, Pingala, &c.). In that colorless vacuum, Khechari Mudra should be established. 52.
There is only one seed germinating the whole universe from it; and there is only one Mudra, called Khechari. There is only one deva (god) without any one’s support, and there is one condition called Manonmani. 53.
The Uddiyana Bandha.
Uddiyana is so called by the Yogis, because by its practice the
Prana (Vayu,) flies (flows) in the Susumna. 54.
Uddiyana is so called, because the great bird, Prana, tied to it, flies without being fatigued. It is explained below. 55.
The belly above the navel is pressed backwards towards the spine.
This Uddiyana Bandha is like a lion for the elephant of death. 56.