Course XLII - Teaching 11: Exercises for Monitoring the Larynx Wheel
When the disciple controls the Larinx Wheel, he goes beyond frontiers of the human senses and enters a region where the “silent music” makes sense.
Chants, for instance plain chant, sustained on one and the same music note, are examples of exercises tending to develop this center.
Hindus ever loved this practice and preached the significance of repeating words, reciting names and coming near to the Eternal One through knowledge and recitation of the Ineffable Name.
All exercises of Vishudda are based on sixteen vocals of its petals combined.
The practitioner should stand up and look at the sunrise, extending over and over again his arms and reciting the first two vocals:
a â
Later, he will make seventy-seven genuflexions, reciting:
a â
i î
In a comfortable position, crossed-legged, elbows on the hips level, hands like a cup, thumbs and forefinger together, after he breathes in deeply, he will retain his breath and recite the holy vocals:
a â
i î
u û
Successively, he will breathe out adding gradually the syllables, and eventually he will repeat the sixteen syllables retaining his breath:
a â
i î
u û
ri rî
bu bû
e ai
o au
a ah
Later, the practitioner will put thumbs on his ears, forefingers on his eyes, middle fingers on both nasal cavities, ring fingers on his mouth and little fingers on his chin, repeating in a modulated way the vowels, according to Master’s instructions, till he falls exhausted or in ecstasy.
[Note: Vowels with circumflex accent replace vowels with flat accent in Sanskrit.]