Extracting Amṛta: Vajrayana version of Khechari mudra!?
This text pays homage to Virūpa. The teaching is attributed to Yogeśvara Virūpa. The text is extracted from Sakya Kabum text.
Namo Virupaya!
Posture
Sit with your legs crossed.
Straighten the back.
The hands are in a meditation mudra with the thumbs pressed together at the navel.
Bend the throat slightly.
Roll the tongue back until it reaches the hollow of the mouth and make sure that it touches the little tongue.
Object of mind
Clearly visualise yourself in the form of your own personal deity.
Imagine the inverted syllable ཧཾ (amṛta) at the crown of your head.
And also visualise a crooked syllable ཧཾ head turned inwards at the spot between the eyebrows.
Visualise the syllable སུཾ on the tip of the little tongue, the syllable ཧཱུཾ in the centre of the heart (in the Vasanata channel), the red syllable ཨཾ in the centre of the navel and the rest of the syllables in white colour.
Breathing technique
With the slight movement of the lower air, from the syllable ཨཾ of the navel, there arises air with a heat of fire.
This will warm up the syllable ཧཱུཾ of the heart and in turn warm up the syllable སུཾ of the little tongue.
This will generate a warmth in the syllable ཧཾ (amṛta) at the crown and the spot between the eyebrows. And this will make the ཧཾ (amṛta) melt in the form of great bliss.
By pressing the upper air slightly downwards, the power of the movement of the syllable ཧཾ is increased.
Since the lower tips of the two amṛta (ཧཾ) channels are on the little tongue, the nectar of immortality will slowly fall down from the little tongue and reaches the heart’s syllable ཧཱུཾ.
This will boost the power of the heart’s syllable ཧཱུཾ, and the amṛta will move through the heart’s eight channels of the eight consciousness. Then imagine the amṛta filling the whole body.
It begins with the hot air generated by the lower air and the syllable ཨཾ of the navel, which gradually brings heat to the syllable ཧཱུཾ of the heart, the syllable སུཾ of the little tongue, and then the syllable ཧཾ of the crown and the forehead which causes the amṛta syllable ཧཾ to melt.
Imagine an interrupted flow of amṛta from the little tongue. At this point, curl the tongue backwards and slowly suck on the little tongue. Amṛta will emerge from the cavity of the little tongue, and by sucking it slowly, swallow it.
Then gently unite the upper and lower air and practise for a long time.
It is said that the Mahasiddha Tog-tse-pa (Kotali) attained his siddhis through the practice of this breathing technique.
Benefits
There will be an increase in the glow of the complexion.
Clarity in the faculty of the senses.
youthful look.
Attainment of longevity
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ANOTHER VERSION BY TARANATHA
1. Sit in a vajra crossed legs posture.
2. Straighten the vertebrae and the shoulders.
3. Bend the neck.
4. Look upward sixteen inches away from the spots between the eyes.
5. Place the palm of the hands over the knees in earth-pressing mudra.
6. Visualize Amrta (bodhicitta) in the form of syllable HUM in the centre of the crown or forehead’s Nadi chakra with sixteen petals, encircled by white colour sixteen vowels (or Bindu) in an anti-clockwise.
7. Draw the lower air upwards, as a result, warm air will rise upwards from the lower abdomen and touch the forehead’s syllables or the Bindus, and from that falls white warm liquid amrta (nectar) like a stream of milk.
8. Imagine the upper part of the forehead becoming full of fire.
9. Expel the stale air.
10. When you breathe in, inhale with the sound of SHIID from the mouth, bring the outer air along with the amrta in the forehead above the tongue, and then ingest them together with the saliva.
11. And then maintain or hold air in balance in all parts of the upper and lower parts of the body.
12. Curl or reverse the tip of the tongue into the cavity and touch the small tongue.
13. And from the small tongue, a stream of nectar or amrta will flow.
14. And then imagine the entire nadis or channels filling up with amrta.
15. After regular practice, there will start to flow a self-arising amrta from the small tongue.