Hi peeps! This is a cut and paste of part of an email that I sent to Yogani.
Lots of strange things happen during practice, but I follow the AYP line and treat them all as “scenery”. However, a couple of meditations ago, a couple of things happened that at the time I didn’t give much thought to, until last night as I was reading “Kundalini Tantra” by Swami Satyananda Saraswati.
I did the 10 minutes of Spinal Breathing, then moved into the meditation. It seemed to go well in that thoughts were few, mantra like a faint pulse and there were those moments were you get to where there are no thoughts at all until you realise that you have stopped breathing. For some reason I then tried Khechari (just stage 1). Now, it’s not something that I usually do and it didn’t seem to make much difference, so I stopped it. Soon after that, I noticed a lovely clear feeling in my throat, like a very nice cool mint feeling, more like a vapour than a liquid. It lasted long enough for me to think, “Wow, that’s nice. What is it? …better get back to the mantra”. Then my meditation kind of shifted. I felt as if I didn’t exist, that yes the mantra was going on, but I wasn’t doing it, what was I? I tried to explain it to my wife by saying that I felt like I was no-thing rattling around inside a brain. There were no thoughts, but I was there. Everything seemed clear, but I didn’t know who, what or where I was!
So, anyway, after a short while, I moved on to my Samyama, then ended the meditation, and forgot about the scenery.
Of course, I gave all this little thought, but then I read on page 99-100 of “Kundalini Tantra” about Khechari and amrit. I then read what it had to say about the effect of amrit.
“When you sit for meditation the mind is perfectly still, it can not move and you can not think. There is shoonyata, an experience of total nothingness. If you are practicing mantra, you feel that somebody else is practicing and you are only witnessing it. …”
Then it clicked that perhaps the “abortive” Khechari, the “mint liquor” and the odd meditation were all linked.
I have only been practicing AYP for 4-5 months. Is it possible that I actually experienced a drop of amrit? Or was it just another odd bit of scenery?
And the reply:
Hi Echo:
Yes, that is a “taste” of the nectar cycle. If you search for nectar, amrita, soma and related terms in the AYP lessons and forums you will find discussions on it. Here is one I recall doing not long ago: http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3204#27584 (check entire topic)
You are wise to let it go and carry on with practices and normal life.
Good things are happening. All the best!
The guru is in you.
and my reply to the reply: 
Hi Yogani
It’s amazing when things happen that you can not discount as fantasy!
All the very best
Hi Guys,
A few years ago I came across a product called Amrit kalash Nectar. Produced by Maharishi Ayeruveda Company which is said to quickly change into Ojas in the stomach… something like that.
Wondering if the association to the amrit nectar that you guys talk about as suggested by the product name really exists.
Thanks,
Emil
Hi Emil,
If I have understood the terminology right, Soma is the stuff produced in the stomach (lower torso) area, amrita is the stuff that drips down from the top of the head into the mouth/ throat, and ojas is the stuff that is secreted from the body, and trickles down outside the physical body. The production of soma is a prerequisite for the production of the other two as they are its transformed form.
Yogani has (I believe) hinted that one of the effects of amaroli is the increased production of soma in the stomach. I don’t know anything about the product you refered to, but if drinking urine helps, then presumably other substances could also. Or maybe it contained someones urine. If it does, it certainly won’t be the first time someone has bottled their wee and sold it.
Christi
It would be really funny
Paying for someone else’s while one is wasting his own precious urine.
Echo, Great things are happening for you. All the best !
Can you pls give details on the ‘Kundalini Tantra’ book? the book’s full name and Author’s name?
is it good?
thanks !
Hi there,
The book was Kundalini Tantra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Here is a link to the book on amazon -
http://www.amazon.com/Kundalini-Tantra-Swami-Satyananda-Saraswati/dp/8185787158/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207571580&sr=1-7
I had purchased this book few months back. have been reading in pieces.
thanks !
Hi Yogani,
I was just wondering… do you think this is what the term “anointed” refers to in the spiritual world. I ask mainly because you mention the word at the end of lesson 51:
http://www.aypsite.org/51.html
"The truth is that we all have equal access to the divine life through our human nervous system. You can choose to be anointed if you are willing to do the work that goes with it – the work of applying the knowledge of human transformation, which is doing spiritual practices every day. "
Christi
Hi Yogani,
I was just wondering… do you think this is what the term “anointed” refers to in the spiritual world. I ask mainly because you mention the word at the end of lesson 51:
http://www.aypsite.org/51.html
"The truth is that we all have equal access to the divine life through our human nervous system. You can choose to be anointed if you are willing to do the work that goes with it – the work of applying the knowledge of human transformation, which is doing spiritual practices every day. "
Christi
Hi Christi: That is one interpretation, though I think being anointed also means to travel a higher path in active surrender to our chosen ideal, not necessarily tied to being physically anointed from the inside or the outside. When we choose, then we are chosen, or anointed. In time, the ojas comes along with that, being a component of the rise of ecstatic conductivity and radiance. The oil anointing ceremonies found in the religions can be viewed as metaphorical representations of that process. The guru is in you.
Hi Shanthi,
The information you have posted was quite useful.Where do you get all these information from is something from the books or it is from your experiences.
Thanks,
Hi lakshmi_shegar,
Welcome to the forum.
The words I quoted above are from Yogani’s book Diet, Shatkarmas and Amaroli.
He has posted a few paragraphs from his book here.
That use to happen quite a lot to me as well long time back.
But I had no idea what was happening at that time, but this thread helps me in understanding what was happening,
I recently was reading a book, that explained it as a siddhi that sits in the throat chakra , that can even reverse aging process by controling some form of liquid (amrita??,nectar??).
Hi Arzkiahai,
Yes, I have heard that too. The stuff that stops your body from ageing is the amrita which drips down from bindu chakra on the top back of your head. But it doesn’t stop the ageing process until the throat chakra is fully activated and able to transform this nectar into another substance which then drips down to the navel chakra.
But I cannot confirm any of this from my actual experience, it is just what I read in a book (don’t ask me which one).
Christi