Ojas, tejas, amrita and bindu (the brain hormones)

ABOUT BINDU

what is bindu?

Guruji: it also has different meanings: bindu is a source of creation also – it’s a point over “OM” and the nada – this crescent moon is the sound of nada vibration and below is kala: when it condenses – it appears as creation. And also sometimes bindu used as a reference to the male semen also. It has these meanings.

why such wide differ in meanings?

Guruji: well, the semen can also start a new creation: from linguistic point of view they are using the same word for these things.

I think Lahiri Mahasaya was mentioning bindu as a some point in practice?

Guruji: of course – when you’re going much deeper in yoga, in practice – you will experience that.

could we say that something which appears inside kutastha is also the transforming of bindu?

Guruji: this is the pathway which will take you to bindu, the beginning of it.

on what depends the shapes which it takes inside?

Guruji: it depends on so many things – your karmic level, your mental level, your spiritual level. Same thing will appear differently for different people.

it’s somehow dehi is trying to show something to us?

Guruji: it is the way of communication, yes.

like you must learn alphabet?

Guruji: no, the understanding will come in time.

it’s like the highest form of vacha?

Guruji: it’s even beyond that, something else.

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

is that some special hours on full moon?

Guruji: that will remains unseen. Most mysterious state of the moon.

how long it lasts?

Guruji: never been seen, it’s unknown. Remember, it’s a discussion about inner moon: from that moment amrita comes from there.

in many books they are talking about sun, moon and fire mandalas; from the moon mandala we discovered the amrita comes; but what about sun and fire mandala?

Guruji: that means apana reaches there, Kundalini reaches there – and this effect will come. it’s only for accomplished yogis, not for just normal person. Apana is sun, and the union will make fire also – yogic fire, it’s a poetic term as well. Only after awakening of Kundalini this can take place.

ODJAS—>AMRITA—>IMMORTALITY

ojas is absorbing in the heart?

Guruji: yes, then the heart becomes extraordinary powerful and start to support your brain more than it is needed. Then your subconscious start to become conscious; then, after a long time, amrita may start to form inside your subconscious.

so it is after?

Guruji: much-much later. If you’re a yogi – it may start to form simultaneously; but mostly it’s a step up program.

what happened when amrita reaches the heart?

Guruji: then the whole body will transform. It make you immortal.

so, as we were discussing before: ojas appears, absorbing in the heart and heart becomes very strong and support the brain, then amrita appears?

Guruji: only if subconscious has been accessed! Then, with enough yoga practice there is a possibility: amrita may start forming there.

so if amrita is there – you are immortal?

Guruji: your journey towards attaining immortality will begin – if you’re able to assimilate that amrita in your system. Nothing happens automatically.

amrita is not storing in the brain or in the heart?

Guruji: it is not storing: it comes; heart becomes powerful – then it supplies to every part of the body. When everything is – let’s say, overflowing – with it, you have achieved.

is it possible that amrita has formed but body cannot assimilate it?

Guruji: not possible, it will never happen like this.

ojas here is like….?

Guruji: major steppingstone. It will increase your consciousness to sublime levels. If you’re not intelligent enough – what you will do with that?

but what is amrita?

Guruji: it maybe a certain type of hormone, which start dropping in those mysterious part of the brain.

that amrita, which gods are drinking: it is metaphorical name for it?

Guruji: maybe it’s a literal fact also.

but the liquid was different than that hormone from the brain?

Guruji: of course.

and ojas is forming exactly in the heart?

Guruji: it is forming and stores, exactly 8 drops.

and when ojas is only forming – it is really looks like a liquid?

Guruji: ayurveda says -only 8 big drops forms with the lifetime practice.

but if we compare with the liquid: like a water, like a milk, like an oil?

Guruji: nobody knows that. It is not described. Maybe colourless and very different type of thing.

TRANSFORMATION

We all have Prana and Apana our life depends on them. But when Yogi’s using prana and apana to do certain pranayam s in a way, he is trying to transform them to very sublime levels.

Some people may question: they already

good in their original form then what is need of transformation? That you need to transform Apana into Ojas, so it will store in your heart and you need transform Prana into Amrit,

which will come into your heard with a practice of Yoga. And they will unite there.

So very simple example is two child’s are there, one girl and the boy, when they will be transformed and become adults . As children, they can do nothing, no reproduction is possible.

Same way, Prana and Apana are inside us ,

and they are supporting our life but only after transformation they will be able to give you

a very sublime type of life.

So we need to keep that in our mind .

and You described that nails and hairs are like some kind of the immortal substance?

Guruji: so, that immortal substance has a special memory: when you will begin to feel that kumbhak to the nails and hairs- that memory will continue to pervade all your body. Memory will go to all your cells: so the different effect it will be – far more deeper than we understand.

so, when we are working with the right side, we are not taking memory from outside world?

Guruji: we are working with our own.

STAGES OF SELF-REALIZATION

what is amrita actually?

Guruji: it maybe the name, given in ancient times for a special hormone which forms after certain level of yoga. It could be some very special hormone, which may form. Amrita is created inside the brain – and it has to be something like a hormone.

Is it possible to develop your biceps without heavy curling?

could we say that it is one of the aims of Kriya yoga?

Guruji: not aim – it is just one of the results. Aim is self-realization.

is the self-realization connected with the feeling “I am”?

Guruji: “I am” is one thing; but how many unaccountable possibilities are also carry “I am”? all these possibilities you need to discover. Otherwise self-realization will not remain complete. Each and every possibility.

is it possible to see such things like amrita which is formed and ojas in the heart?

Guruji: amrita – yes, I become aware; with intense yoga practice it forms in the brain and it is extraordinary hormone. I’ve already recorded this.

but only now we understand, how You know

Guruji: only with enough yoga practice it may start to form.

it forms in agya chakra?

Guruji: no, forget about it: it will come from subconscious.

and electrical impulses?

Guruji: in the brain there are flashing of electric lights – and in a nervous system also. You’re intensely aware of the electrical flow. It’s a fantastic experience.

And in a daytime there is a sort of twilight just beneath the skin- if the body is exposed to light. Otherwise, it is dark.

can You appreciate and understand the changings which are going through the practice?

Guruji: yes

and ojas: how it is looking?

Guruji: 8 drops only; initially it’s like liquid – but it absorbs in the heart and makes the heart very strong.

on the certain level of development yogi starts to consume amrita?

Guruji: it need to form first inside the brain.

will it depend on the quality of the thoughts of the yogi, who is able to produce it?

Guruji: not depend on the thought: on the power of yoga practice: it is a result. Not will propel you to keep on practicing to the best of your abilities; but this is the result of very heightened, most excellent practice.

so there is no possibility that something could turn amrita into poison?

Guruji: no. it will be created when the body is ready to tolerate. Don’t you think brain is responsible for our growing, becoming young and getting older also? It is stand to reason that some spiritual hormone may be created in the brain, which will stabilize the body for centuries?

I’m asking that for example sudden blast of adrenaline will create the different chemical reaction and will spoil all the result?

Guruji: accidentally it will never happen. Not possible.

Amrita will be assimilated in the body. “amrita” literally means “deathless”. What we read in India, in indian shastras, - nowhere else in the world you will find such great information and great things. Only in our mythology lifespan is thousands of years, tapas for thousands of years: nowhere else it is even discussed.

in other mythologies it could be done only by some magic or by finding some artifact like the fountain of youth.

Guruji: ojas is collected in the body – then it’s collected in the heart. It is absorbing in the heart muscles.

and ojas doesn’t spread again all over the body?

Guruji: no, it remain concentrated in the heart.

is it visible on the person- when he has ojas in the heart?

Guruji: he will be full of valour and so many other things; they will say – ojasvi: he is full of ojas – that’s why he is so extraordinary.

if amrita will come to the heart which have no ojas?

Guruji: it will not even develop! No chance. Maybe the next step of ojas is amrita.

from Gorakhbodh – they are saying that concentrated ojas in the heart and amrita could start to form simultaneously?

Guruji: ojas is the prelude to amrita

they could not start to form simultaneously – first ojas, then amrita?

Guruji: first it is greatest of the great effort – to be able to receive ojas. And when this possibility has been achieved – then the possibility of amrita which come down from your brain in khechari mudra – that possibility will begin. Of course they are compliment each other, very closely thing.

first must be ojas – only then amrita could come?

Guruji: yes. Because the ojas developed only 8 drops in lifetime practice, it is places in the heart; and as we already come to the conclusion – heart is supporting the brain: so when ojas is there in the heart – that somehow will support the brain extraordinarily and maybe activated also- then amrita will begin to form.

For the sake of the modern term – they will be no have a term – maybe some very extraordinary special hormone start to form which the yogi of ancient time were calling “amrita”.

We don’t know still what brain is capable of producing. I’ve noticed that the physical thing and everything depends on the brain: when it secrets some hormone or different hormones – the body begin develop, begin to feel different emotions – so many things. When the secretion of hormones is different then you’re feeling different. Maybe whole tapas is for the brain finally start producing amrita. For this ojas is needed because without heart brain will cease. They all go together.

so ojas is like supplying system for the brain?

Guruji: something which only brain is needing very hard.

approximately at what time one drop could be formed?

Guruji: there is no time frame – depends on the individual.

but if the process is already started?

Guruji: minimum 12 to 24 years for 1 drop.

is it possible to form 8 drops in one lifetime?

Guruji: why not – life span will increase with that

when 1 drop formed – you’re more young?

Guruji: maybe it will add extra 12 years to your life( hypothetically)

how we can see it on the body and on the mind when the drop is formed?

Guruji: your brain will begin to function extraordinarily. You will become a wise man.

even with one drop?

Guruji: it’s a rarest of rare.

when amrita starts to form?

Guruji: after 8 drops is there – that is a next stage of that.

again: how long amrita is formed?

Guruji: time frame will be big: from 12 to 24 for the first particle of amrita to come down.

on what it depends?

Guruji: on everything – it is forming in your physical body, not in some chakra above your head or coming from heaven; it is forming inside the body.

it’s more harder to retain than to stop the heart?

Guruji: it’s not retaining: it’s about you’re able to digest that life force inside your body. Retaining is nothing – assimilating inside the body: then when it will digest – it will convert into ojas. It is also written in Ayurveda.

so no rasayana, no mercury cannot help to convert semen or something into ojas?

Guruji: it may help, but ultimately, finally it’s prolonged very heavy concentrated yoga practice most excellent – that is actually to transform.

it doesn’t exists the magic pill?

Guruji: nothing – only your own effort in the right direction. Human efforts are mostly misdirective. The Miss is direction for them.

Minimum 12 years is always for one drop. I think you should think about it when you each 120 years obviously – no karma will affect you.

could samadhi be achieved without that 1 drop of ojas?

Guruji: yes. But after something may happen and it may start.

and without first experience of samadhi it could start to form?

Guruji: you will not have any desire to achieve that.

Next stage of ojas is amrita.

so that process of forming ojas is possible only after crossing 120 years?

Guruji: before that it’s not possible. You see, in 12 years all cells of your body become new; old cells are retaining the old memories. As they will become new with your own practice- the program will be different. When new cells will develop with new program - that will support the creation of ojas. Old cells with old memories – not possible. That’s why we need to live long.

so first we must practice samadhi like the first step of education?

Guruji: first there should be enough ambition and desire for you to be a yogi, to start yoga practice. Then your luck will come into play- if you’re lucky enough you’ll find right path, right teacher who will guide you in extreme detail. Then if your efforts are right and you’re able to achieve samadhi – then this process will click. Then again if you’re successful and luck plays a great role here – then in 12 years time you will begin to feel different if everything is going well. And suddenly with the first drop of ojas your mind will open up in extraordinary way and you’ll starting to be aware of so many things which you were already there – but you couldn’t even feel that they are there. Then with the second drop it will big blast in your mind and you will begin to understand so many things; and the process will on and on. You will be the very wise person and you will improve physically also. The first impression will be on your physical body: body is an expression of your mind or brain.

OJAS AND TEJAS (ADDITION)

Your definition of ojas is too different from any other; ojas could be of few types?

Guruji: I think ojas is ojas. When you’re trying to go in too much details – then you say “para ojas” and “apara ojas”. Para ojas is that which enter your brain and can stimulate amrita. And a ojas, which will remain inside your heart which just will form – it is called apara. It is just a transformation process. Not that there are too different types. When we don’t understand something – we go to the philosophical things and the final word will be: “god works in mysterious way” – which he does, maybe. But all these things are part of your physical body- it’s all part of you, working inside how it is done. Remember, people are running after soul or spirit – but I’m saying: physical body itself is one of the greatest of the great mysteries- you cannot discard it as a bag of flesh and bones or bag full of shit or something; it is carrying the immortal spirit inside and Narayana is sleeping – your brain is there. 98% is sleeping but it has all the possibilities of awakening, it’s a great mystery! We need to solve it, learn more out of it – then the spirit will be taking care of.

what is tejas?

Guruji: there are different meanings of this word: tejas is your life force. The more life force you have – more valorous and more bright you will appear. You will be very strong in your speech, in your deeds, in your karma, in your thinking, in your decisions: the strength will just simply have their express through you. That is also tejas.

in “Amaraugh Prabodh” it is said that tejas is always in the tallu like a pointed flame of a candle?

Guruji: yes – you need fire. The water in your skull is warm enough – so the brain is sleeping comfortably.

Ojas, tejas & prana.

could we say that ojas is the essence of prana?

Guruji: yes

and it exists only in the heart?

Guruji: in a lifetime, if you observe absolute celibacy only eight drops of it forms and they are stored in the heart; that’s why sometime it is said that eight-petal lotus is in the heart – actually there are eight drops of ojas.

but why nobody seen it?

Guruji: you don’t see celibate also. And it’s not only celibate – he must be an accomplished yogi as well.

I’ve read somewhere that when ojas is finished – the person will die?

Guruji: many people are saying this, but if ojas will be there – as long as it is there the jiva will remain inside the body. Ojas is forming only by yoga practice.

in Ayurveda is said that it forms from the food – like the final step?

Guruji: ok, we’re agree that after food it is the last thing which develop – but how many people wait for it to develop? The point is this.

but if the person looks very good, shining and brilliant – can we say that he has more ojas?

Guruji: it reflects directly in the aura. Only. The aura will be bright and much bigger with big range. Usually it will be golden or white. Ojas is the essence of the life force.

how ojas is connected with chakras?

Guruji: when your heart is very strong and full of ojas - then it’s very big possibilities that your chakras are also develop, then open, your kundalini is awaken and your subconscious is conscious – I mean you’re a superman. But I don’t think you will be able to develop your chakras without attaining the class where they activate the chakras, taking 200 dollars from your pocket. If you will not go to that class – no possibility of chakras, remember that. Without certificate it’s not possible( laughing). Bhajans is the most important ingredient for awakening your chakras.

what is the connection between ojas and tejas?

Guruji: tejas is the property of ojas and the reflection of ojas. Valor is the right word in English. It is your might – like the valor of the warrior: you’re not afraid of anything, you’re ready to face any challenge – that power. It will have direct impact on your mind also.

so tejas is something metaphoric?

Guruji: no, tejas is like the strength of the strong man – it can not be metaphoric. It’s an expression of ojas. Try to understand: the truth of the truthful man, strength of a strong man, the intellect of intelligent man, - how you will separate them?

how the truth can be measured?

Guruji: there is no scale.

only power we can measure?

Guruji: maybe the power is the only truth.

what form tejas has?

Guruji: only it is expressed by your karmas, your actions.

I understand, that ojas is the part of yoga practice: but

Guruji: even not a yogi can have enough tejas – like a warrior or great scientist or a great intellects, even poets. What is poetry – it is an expression of their tejas. Something like inner power.

Guruji, normal people can have ojas?

Guruji: no, ojas is missing. But some type of tejas is always there.

when the child is born – have he ojas?

Guruji: no, how can it be there? But he have possibility. You can call tejas like strong ability with enough power to execute it.

but everything comes from the mind: so tejas is just the level of consciousness?

Guruji: expressions are different. When the expressions are different – you need to use different words for them. And confusion start from using different words.

so any strong expression of the body we can call tejas?

Guruji: we have word in hindi: tejasvi purush. Who is able to command thousands, when you easily can dominate anyone – that is an expression of tejas. He will be able to command many people - and his command will be respected naturally. Natural leadership.

BINDU BLOWS – EXPLOSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Uvula is very important; it is inside the mouth – maybe controlling all the teeth.

In “Amaraughashasana”: the mouth of Shankhini is the tenth gate and it’s in raja danta?

Guruji: Yes, it’s the same point. That’s why the khechari is so important. If you just look at the shape of it – it looks like OM also. Maybe this is the home of OM.

Does it gives you access to the practice of Shankhini?

Guruji: Yes, and access to the sahasrara, from where you can access Shankhini practice.

Amazing how in ancient texts they could recognize a triangular shape of a waternut – and You discovered it's somewhere in the brain?

Guruji: I knew it – then one of my doctor disciples was here and he immediately showed me the picture on a phone, how it looks. But in this book the author is describing it downwhere.

Yes, that is the confusion!

Guruji: I said – that’s a problem, it’s upthere, not down there.

They are writing: when bindu blows – it expands and looks like the triangle fruit of waternut?

Guruji: Water fruit, yes: it must be on the back side of the head. That water fruit thing is there.

What does it mean: “when bindu blows”?

Guruji: Maybe the Nada comes; you can go on and elaborate on this. You can connect it with the nuclear blast: the smallest of the small atoms blows up and starts a chain reaction; so you can say – when bindu blows it – the chain reaction comes and a blasting of the consciousness will follow. It will be like a nuclear blast. I already knew – it must be somewhere in the brain and the doctor provided me with the proof.

What is the function of this waternut formation in the brain?

Guruji: When it’s activated – the consciousness will not flow freely.

From the yogic point of view – it is blocking the consciousness?

Guruji: Not exactly blocking; it controls your respiration also. Aerobic and anaerobic breathing also: you won't need to breathe for a very long time. And who can even imagine that the brain is looking like hips? As we discovered – they describe it exactly.

Guruji, which upaprana’s function is connected with swallowing?

HIGHER YOGA EDUCATION

amrita which is produces in the brain: it differs when the person is in samadhi or not in samadhi?

Guruji: even if a normal person will produce accidentally – it will go into digestive fire. It will make a person a little bit stronger than usual but that’s it. But if it comes into the heart and goes through blood stream - then it work miraculous.

but if yogin is in samadhi or not in samadhi – the process are the same or different?

Guruji: no, samadhi – in suspended animation nothing happens with the physical body.

how it can happen with normal person?

Guruji: accidents do happen time to time. There are cases when extra shot of adrenaline make so many people do superhuman things but they were ordinary people. You cannot define a rule for it – it may happen it may not happen.

yesterday we discussed that amrita could form only if ojas will form?

Guruji: in regular way – that’s the point. Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone but he was never student of engineery or something, it just click; or James Watt discover the steam engine looking at the tea boiling. He was not an engineer. And he couldn’t improve on what he discovered. For that people with great education will need – to improve those things. That amrita is like education – you will improve on that chance thing.

Q: what should we do with liquid, coming with khechari?

Guruji: take it inside.

Q: could we do it without moving out the tongue?

Guruji: of course, it will come with practice. It is the very potent thing, it may be elixir – because so many rare hormones combines there; you are esteeming them – directly effect will be there. On the mind also. There is one point here: where they are describing taking the tongue inside – only outside they are talking. Or this door of Brahma is inside.

Q: it affects nabhi?

Guruji: yes, it will have direct effect on nabhi also; but there it affect generative organs – they can produce life. When you use them differently – they will create internal life. Instead of creating external life – internal life will be created. And you remember th Taoism? In books of Taoism we can read that the foetus will develop inside – that they called internal life. Connect them together. When union will take place- what then? New life comes: it is the result of the union. Superconsciousness.

Just as fire stays connected to the fuel and lamplight to
the oil, so does soul not abandon the body while it is full
of moon’s nectar.
The one, who eats the flesh of the cow and drinks immor-
tal wine, only he belongs to a high lineage. Others are
destroyers of their lineage.

The word “[…]” means the tongue (and also means the cow).
Eating the flesh of the cow means to make it enter the up-
per palate. It (Khechari) destroys the greatest of sins.
When the tongue enters the cavity, heat is indeed pro -
duced and the immortal nectar of the moon flows.

When the tongue constantly kisses the inside of the nasal
passage, the nectar from the moon flows and it has a salty,
pungent, and acidic taste. It is like a combination of milk,
ghee, and honey. Fatal diseases, old age, and weapons are
warded off. From that, immortality and the eight siddhis
or perfections manifest.
When you continue to do Mahavedha – continue to
kiss yourself inside the nasal passage with the tongue in
Khechari Mudra, it stimulates a very mysterious activity
inside the brain and new hormones or a semi-liquid fluid
starts to flow. This semi-liquid fluid is also called milk or
nectar by the yogis. This removes all the diseases and slows
down the ageing process greatly, and even if someone at -
tacks you with a weapon, it cannot harm you. The possibil-
ity of immortality and the eight siddhis begins from here.
”

Fluid drips into the sixteen-petalled lotus (Vishuddha
Chakra). When the tongue is inserted into the upper cav-
ity, Paramshakti (Kundalini) is released and one becomes
concentrated in it (the experience that ensues) . The yogi
who drinks the pure stream of nectar is freed from dis -
ease, has longevity, and has a body as soft as a beautiful
lotus stem.
How to drink this nectar is discussed in Amaroli and
Vajroli.
”

The nectar is secreted from the topmost part of the Meru
(Sushumna), the fountain-head of the nadis. He, who
has a pure intellect, can know the truth therein. The
nectar, which is the essence of the body, flows out from
the moon and hence death ensues. Therefore Khechari
Mudra should be practiced; otherwise perfection of the
body cannot be attained.
When you simply hold the head straight – the nectar
goes into your digestive fire and is destroyed. But when
your head is tilted up in Mahavedha and the tongue is
kissing the inside of the nasal passage, the flow comes un-
der the tongue. Here, there are two very minor holes. It
is through these holes that the nectar or the milk coming
down from the brain gets assimilated in the body and goes
directly to the heart and slows down the ageing process
immensely.
Sublingual gland – a small salivary gland that produces mucin
(the viscous component of saliva) in human beings is located on
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either side of the mouth under the tongue. These two small holes
have outgoing functions. And if we put the medicine under the
tongue, these glands produces saliva with the great quantity of
mucin, which dissolves the medicine very fast and after that it
is absorbed by vena sublingualis (a tributary of the lingual vein)
and goes directly to the heart.
Five nadis convene in this cavity and it is the source of
knowledge. Khechari should be established in that Void,
untainted (by ignorance).
That’s why Shiva has said that Khechari is dear to Him.
“[…] ” means without carbon.
”

There is only one seed of creation and only one mudra
that is Khechari. There is only one God who is independ-
ent of everything, and only one state, Manonmani.
Most of the people say that bindu is semen. But here
bindu doesn't mean semen. Nada, bindu, and kala are the
three parts of OM. Bindu is the original source of crea -
tion. This bindu is the seed of your being which is seen in
Y oni Mudra and which has been described by yogi Swat -
marama in the fourth chapter. Bindu appears only in Y oni
”

Mudra, inside the golden ring. You are able to perceive it
only with Y oni Mudra and with all the combinations of
different mudras. Bindu’s different expressions are called
kala, which yogi slowly begins to understand. As long as
the mind is connected with the physical body, this experi-
ence is possible. Here body is as important as mind. Mind
is bindu and body is kala and they are united with nada.
That is why Y oni Mudra is called Y oni Mudra, because it
is from the yoni that everybody comes into being. What
you see in Y oni Mudra is the cause of your being. It is the
continuation – it is not one technique. All these mudras
and pranayamas help you to create it. Khechari is the secret
part of Mahavedha and all the pranayamas. Swatmarama is
trying to explain it step-by-step, by breaking it into pieces;
otherwise it is a continuous process.