Gheranda Samhita

Q: what about vatasara dhauti?

Guruji: vatasara dhauti is – the way you do the shankhprakshalana, the same it is done with the air.

Q: could you explain it word by word? How exactly we must to do this technic?

Guruji: contract the mouth like the beak of the crow and drink air slowly. And filling the stomach slowly and moving there in; then slowly force it out through the low passage. Simple like shankhprakshalana. You will have to eat it. And move it in your stomach like you are doing nauli and then expel.

Q: and in vatasara dhauti we must do the same postures like in shankhprakshalana?

Guruji: yes, it will help.

Q: and varisara dhauti?

Guruji: absolutely like shankhprakshalana. And agnisara I hope you already know. Do it 100 times. Agnisara your stomach should be absolutely clean. Then the perfect result of agnisara will come.

Q: and what about bahish krita dhauti?

Guruji: they simply write that you need to keep the air inside your stomach for 1,5 hour.

Q: how?

Guruji: when you have eaten it, when it is in intestines – it is possible to keep it there more than 1,5 hour, then you expel it through the lower part.

Q: so in vatasara dhauti we are deliberately make it to going down …

Guruji: immediately with nauli and all other technics and here you must keep it inside for 1,5 hour.

Q: why exactly this period?

Guruji: actually it is special time: even Shakti Chalini is for 1,5 hour. In 1,5 hour it starts some sort of different type of reaction inside. Or it may prepare your intestines for the kevala kumbhaka also.

Next shloka is about Shakti nadi- that thing I told you about bring out your tongue.

Danda dhauti is cleaning the teeth. They are saying about cleansing of the teeth, than root of the tongue, and the 2 holes of the ears and the frontal sinus- nose. You have to do all these things.

Q: what is catchu powder?

Guruji: it is sort of powder, which people eat and paan also- it is supposed to be good- and some people rub their teeth to clean them. Just buy dabur red toothpaste- it contains catchu. And you should clean your teeth in the morning daily. Catchu powder nade from the special type of tree.

Q: could you explain the shlokas about jihva sadhana?

Guruji: I shall now tell you the method of cleansing the tongue; the elaboration(?) of tongue destroys old age, death and disease. They are not saying anything about how to polish, but they are describe the position of the hand – like this( middle and ring finger together).

Q: when the people do khechari – it is connected with the karma? Why exactly with the tongue?

Guruji: it connected with the karma; the tongue is called Shakti and it is the most pleased to Shiva. It is the real secret: what we are without tongue? – nothing. No taste, no speech, nothing.

The next shloka simply prepare the tongue for khechari mudra. When you know the more elaborated technics – you don’t need it. Remember: in no yoga book talabhi and jihva chalan not described. It’ s a great secret of Kriya.

Kapala randhra dhauti: making massage with the thumb on your forehead.Now I’m trying to draw your attention to another thing. They are talking about brahma randhra – kapala randhra. And it is describing between the eyebrows, not on the top of the head. This is the technical thing.

Q: how the technics of vomiting connected with hridaya dhauti?

Guruji: in some of the things we say that only by udana vayu and draw apana up you will be able to vomit. Simply by inducing the vomit-like sensation maybe apana is coming up. This will have the direct effect on your heart. It can be connected with apana ultimate, this is no other way.

Q: so when we are trying to vomit – we are connect with apana and trying to make it rise?

Guruji: or by removing all the flegms, while you are eating when it goes out – it easiers the heart. Because they are collected near the heart most of the time – all these flegms and bile and everything here. So when you remove it – heart is more or less better.

Vamana dhauti: after eating drink water up to your throat, looking for a while upward, vomit it out. It is used only for a bile and disorders of flegm, only to remove it. If you don’t have this – you don’t need to do it.

If you are already done vatasara dhauti and varisara dhauti – for what need you do mula sadhana? Everything is clean already.

Q: it is needed to do all these things?

Guruji: You just do it, learn it, and then do it when it is needed. The regular practice of yoga will keep your system very clean. And if you will overdo it – it will destroy your health. Immunity system will be down.

Q: what is lauliki?

Guruji: you know this, it is nauli.