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Originally posted by Lookatmynavelnow
Would any of you care to make a comment on the snipping benefits?
Hello L@MNN & All,
The practice of snipping the frenulum beneath the tongue enabled me to enter Khechari Mudra Stage 2 (as defined by Advanced Yoga Practices). The addition of Khechari Mudra to my daily yoga practices yielded certain key benefits, and I heartily recommend adoption of the practice.
Has the practice of Khechari Mudra provided all the benefits I had imagined, anticipated and hoped for?
Honestly, no.
The practice of Khechari Mudra has contributed to benefits infinitely - and I use that term quite literally - beyond what I was capable of imagining, anticipating and hoping even existed, or was possible ... to orders of magnitude so vast, that words literally do not have the ability to describe.Here is a link to a thread I started a while back on
Samadhi.
Before snipping, and subsequently entering Khechari Mudra Stage 2, I could not have written that post.
After entering Khechari Mudra, I
did.
And I don't say this boastingly, but with a humility and gratitude so profound that it certainly cannot be expressed in words.
As I write this post, I literally sit here with tears of joy in my eyes, and a loopy grin on my face, as I realize: even that Samadhi post seems a long way back, consciousness & bliss-wise.
Like many practitioners of yoga, I wondered for what seemed like a LONG time, where all the amazingly "good stuff" was hidden, and how I might obtain it.
Now, I wonder ... daily ... literally ... how the abundance, beauty and utter glory of Self, of consciousness, of life ... of THIS ... can be this limitless, this staggeringly, awesomely, boundlessly REAL.
All I can tell you, is:
The dawning of living awareness of reality seems to be augmented significantly by sticking your tongue up your nose, from the inside.
Do I expect you to believe me? Of course not. I will, however, point out that I'm in good company, regarding this opinion.
From the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Chapter 3, Verse 53:"
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."
As Jesus said (Matthew 13:45-46):
“
The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it."
Is Khechari Mudra that pearl of great price?
No.
It can just go a very long way toward showing you
exactly where it is (and the very literal fact that there's nowhere it isn't.)
The most sacred number in the science of Self-Realization is 108.
Yogani outlined the basics of Khechari Mudra in AYP Lesson 108 for a reason:
Khechari Mudra
can be one of the most important keys to realization available.
Is it essential? Honestly, No. The world has seen plenty of fully realized souls who never heard of Khechari.
Can it make a significant difference?
Yes.
It most assuredly can.
Yoga ... Union ... Living Awareness of the Bliss of Self ... Satchidananda ... is not actually something you get, or attain ... it's who you actually
are ... the natural state, prior to all the illusion-producing, consciousness-fettering concepts (prior to everything, actually) which apparently bind us to the wheel of Samsara - the utterly illusory cycle of birth and death.
What Khechari actually
does, is: it creates a very important subtle energy link in the body-mind, which allows the apparent chains of constricted consciousness to be greatly loosened, or dissolve, in perception (hence the term and its meaning - the term
Khechari is from the Sanskrit, meaning "to fly through inner-space", or "to know one's own nature as the limitless Sky of Consciousness."
I used to think that "flying through inner space" amounted to some sort of yogic amusement park ride.
Not so.
It amounts to a statement concerning the literal, ever-fresh joy of continuous expansion of This That I Am.
Am I waxing metaphysical, here?
Nope.
Waxing
actual.
Was Khechari Mudra the key?
Dunno.
Was it
a key?
Evidently.
Reality (your true nature) is not what you think it is.
What's it worth to consciously live as and from your true nature?
Everything.
Literally, everything.
As Adyashanti says, "I gave everything for this, and I laughingly wonder:
how could it have been so cheap?"
It's all a lot less dramatic, and a lot more real, than anyone could ever dream.
Could what I've said in this post possibly be true?
Find out.Nothing anyone
else knows matters in the slightest.
Jesus said: "The kingdom of heaven is within you."
He's not kidding.
Aum Hridayam*,
Kirtanman
*AUM is Where the Heart Is.