Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

have been carried out exactly in the following manner. Initially pranayama is practised
assiduously, until kumbhaka (retention of the breath) has been perfected. At this stage,
khechari mudra is performed. This is not the simple form of khechari as performed in
kundalini yoga sadhana, but the practice of hatha yoga in which the root or frenulum of
the under surface of the tongue is gradually cut and the tongue is slowly elongated and
inserted into the nasopharynx. It blocks off the passage as a cork seals a bottle. The whole
practice is perfected over a two year period.
By this practice the drops from bindu fall to vishuddhi and subsequently permeate the
whole bodily system. These drops of nectar maintain the nutrition and vitality of the
bodily tissues while simultaneously arresting the metabolic processes of the body. When
the metabolism of the cells and tissues of the body is suspended in this way, oxygen is no
longer required and cellular wastes are not produced. Therefore, the person who
hibernates can live without breathing for quite an extended period of time. Even the facial
hair does not grow during the period of hibernation.
The poison center
Also, besides producing nectar, bindu is responsible for the production of poison. The
poison glands and the nectar glands are almost simultaneously situated. You may wonder
if by awakening bindu there is any danger in stimulating the poison glands. If bindu and
vishuddhi are stimulated at the same time there is absolutely no danger, because bindu
controls the nectar glands and vishuddhi has a bearing on both nectar and poison. As long
as nectar is flowing, the poison can do no harm. Also, if a yogi has purified his body
through hatha yoga and the practices of dhyana and raja yoga, the poison glands are
utilized for the production of nectar.
The origin of individuality
Bindu is considered to be the origin of creation or the point where oneness first
divides itself to produce the world of multiple individual forms. This aspect of bindu can
be traced to the Sanskrit root bind, which means 'to split or divide'.
Bindu implies a point without dimension, a dimensionless center. In some Sanskrit
texts it is termed chidghana - that which has its roots in the limitless consciousness.
Bindu is considered to be the gateway to shoonya, the state of void. This void should not
be misinterpreted as a state of nothingness. Rather, it is the state of no-thingness - the
state of pure, absolute and undifferentiated consciousness. Bindu is mysterious. It is an
ineffable focal point within which the two opposites, infinity and zero, fullness and
nothingness, coexist.
Within bindu is contained the evolutionary potential for all the myriad objects of the
universe. It contains the blueprint for creation. Evolution here refers to the vertical,
transcendental process by which life, objects and organisms arise from the underlying
substratum of existence. The evolution is not at all the same as the scientific concept of
Darwinian evolution. This is but a historical trace of the changes over a period of time in