Please understand I am not trying to teach or sell anything. I am initiated in person into Kriya Yoga by an authentic lineage. I do have a deep heart felt connection to God and Lahiri Mahasaya. Without these three things I would not dare do what I am describing.
There are enough cautionary warnings out there for me to believe the things being said.
To me Kriya is something I was born doing I just did not know I was doing anything special until later. People interested in Kriya Yoga should take initiation and learn from an authorized person only if you feel the inner prompting to do so. Books are not enough, internet lessons are not enough. Initiation must be had it makes all the difference.
If Kriya Yoga is advanced as people write, ok that’s nice for me it is just for me to do.
I can only speak from my own actual experience and for me it just is my time to do this thing. Babies walk when they are ready and know when this is.
I as a spiritual infant am taking to my legs even now. I am sharing my first stumbling steps of Kechari so others may have an idea of what it is like when they start taking to their legs and walking.
This morning practice of Kriya went very well but I was suffused with disappointment over the lack of connectivity without Kechari.
Knowing the difference now makes Kriya without Kechari seem like the very circuit I am working with is not operating as cleanly as it should, it is not the same anymore not as deeply satisfying not as right feeling as it should be, not as effortless as I know it can be the mind is not in the still silent point as much as it can be even though it is silent it is a shallow silence that lacks depth and silent resonance.
As an analogy:
If the spine and sushumna are a conductor when Kechari is done it becomes like a super cooled superconductor where the electrons no longer bump into copper atoms in a high tension line creating heat and resistance. Zero resistance means zero energy loss. So it is in physics so it is here.
I had intended to rest from anymore Kechari attempts today and perhaps start up again tomorrow.
I always pray to God And Lahiri Mahasaya asking for guidance in my practice and do my very best to be aware of inner promptings. I also ask for authorization, permission and protection from my own ignorance to practice such sacred things.
During my Practice of Kriya Pranayama it came to me to aid the tongue into position.
The best way I can put this Is I felt the persona the presence of Yogiraj giving permission to do this, so I did.
Tentatively at first I placed the tip of my tongue to the back of my throat while practicing Pranayama I felt a circuit becoming better established. The area of the soft pallet felt tight the Uvula was in the way. So I practiced like this until I had to swallow.
I resumed practice and guided the tongue into position gently until it touched the back of the throat I established stable breathing and became relaxed and comfortable while practicing this pranayama this way.
I was following the movements so pure and nice in the spine and it happened my tongue slid up as the soft pallet opened and and welcomed it in all the way to the root of my tongue.
The circuit became so nice so clean so unrestricted so peaceful so home coming so right I became immediately internalized.
I began analyzing this new happening immediately. The first thing I noticed is there was no pain zero none at all. In fact the strain on my tongue and the soft pallet was removed.
To clarify when in deep Kriya Practice the tongue would push forcefully against the soft pallet which would make the underside of the tongue ache. One time it happened so forcefully in the beginning the string twanged and a small piece on the very outer edge when stretched tight did tear but I am talking about an area perhaps a millimeter or less long by a 1/4 of a millimeter long it that deep just enough to run a finger nail along the edge of the tendon and feel a small dip when stretched tight but at the time felt like 12 inches worth.
So now with the tongue behind the soft pallet the edge of the soft pallet at the base of the tongue. The soft pallet became the very thing that was holding my tongue in place without effort everything was just fitting very nicely like it always belonged in this position so much so I did not even think it odd at all.
Everything was just comfortable surprisingly so no straining of the tongue even though it wanted to continue even further up on its own now that nothing was in it’s way. The soft pallet though holding this tongue did not strain pull tear or ache in any way.
Breathing was incredibly free more free flowing in fact than with the tongue not being there. At no time was there a sense of my tongue being a foreign invader or that I was hurting this body in any way. Absolutely incredible in retrospect.
I was experiencing such a nice flow of awareness I was reluctant to explore anymore so I just followed my inner promptings and explored while just breathing just being there.
I discovered that breathing was completely free and unrestricted. I could feel the incoming and outgoing breath on my tongue before anywhere else. I was a little surprised to discover that it felt like my tongue was in a huge cavernous area I guess it is just not long enough yet to touch. I could however get the tongue to curve foreword to touch the floor of the Soft pallet with the bottom of my tongue but felt like what I had accomplished was enough for now.
I left the tongue in the Kechari position and removed my hand from my mouth it was no longer needed and everything was very comfortable so I went back to practicing Kriya Pranayama with wonderful results.
Then I had to swallow and was pleasantly surprised to discover the tongue slid out nicely and resumed it’s normal position and just swallowed. I then sat in silence for some time feeling the after poise of Kriya practice until the inner prompting came again to aid the tongue into position which I did once again this time becoming consciously aware of what was needed to do so.
The tongue slid up into position and the circuit completed again just as surly as flipping a light switch. I practiced this several more times as swallowing occurred until I felt I had the new mechanics down and inner prompting told me this was enough for now.
This mornings practice has marked a stepping stone in my practice. I will update this as things progress.