Category: Shat karma

Technique

Combine together the second, the middle and the forth fingers and enter them into the throat rubbing and cleaning the root of tongue. Do it slowly and carefully till you get the feeling that the root of the tongue has become clean. Do it daily in the morning.

Benefits

• One doing it daily escapes from the disease and old age, for the phlegm and catarrh are cleared off and eliminated everyday.
• Keeps one safe from bad throat and bad cold.

This is to cleanse teeth everyday and is considered to be the chief among Dhauties which one should never miss.

Technique

The roots of the teeth should be rubbed clean with a twig, some medicine or even with dried earth. It must be done daily in the morning.

 

Benefits

• Preserves the teeth from decay and avoids foul smell.
• Keeps the teeth bright and clean.

The Bahishkrita Dhauti is to cleanse the stomach and intestines by means of air. It must be learnt from an expert. 

 

Technique

Forming the lips like a crow’s beak, one should fill the belly with air and try to hold  it inside for a pretty long time and then evacuate the same through the rectum. Constant practice would be needed to master this feat.

 

Benefits

• Very useful for persons suffering from constipation or indigestion.
• Promotes health and long life.

The Vahnisara is to generate heat in the abdomen.

 

Technique

Sitting in some easy posture one should squeeze in and then loosen out the abdomen constantly for about a hundred times.  Start with ten such squeezing and add to this number gradually every day till it could be mastered fully.

 

Benefits

• Most useful for the phlegmatic people and fat persons.
• Reduces fat belly.
• Cures constipation.
• Improves digestion.
• Has very healthy effect on the liver and respiratory organs.

The Varisar is one of the most useful practices. It is also called the Shankha Prakshalana which means flushing of the alimentary canal. Its technique should be learnt from an expert to safe-guard against any harmful effects.

 

Technique

Drink as much warm, salty water as would fill the stomach up to the throat. Then have the abdominal movements as taught by the teacher till the water goes down into the intestines. Repeat the in-take of water followed by exercise till the fresh-like water begins flowing out of the rectum. Here, follow the advice of the teacher very closely regarding the rest and the diet needed after the practice. Any violations might result into serious trouble.

 

Benefits

• Cleans the intestines and removes germs present inside them.
• Improves digestion system.
• Cures blood related diseases.
• Useful for good health.

Technique

Suck in the breath slowly through the mouth, shaping it like the crow beak. Then hold it inside the stomach, for the air thus sucked must go to the stomach through the food pipe. Retain the air up to your normal capacity of doing so and then blow it out through the same route i.e. the mouth.

 

Benefits

• Purifies the stomach by means of air.
• Cures many diseases and considerably improves digestion.

The Dhauti is of four kinds:

1. Antar Dhauti or Internal Dhauti
2. Danta Dhauti or Dental Dhauti
3. Hrid Dhauti or Heart Dhauti
4. Mula-shodhana Dhauti or Rectum Dhauti

 

1. Antar Dhauti or Internal Dhauti is further classified into into four divisions as:
   1. Vatasara Dhauti or Wind Passing
   2. Varisara Dhauti or Water Passing
   3. Vahnisara Dhauti or Heat Passing
   4. Bahishkrita Dhauti or Blowing Out
2. Danta Dhauti or Dental Dhauti has also four divisions as:
   1. Dantamula Dhauti or Teeth Cleaning
   2. Jihvamula Dhauti or Tongue Cleaning
   3. Karnarandhra Dhauti or Ear Duct Cleaning
   4. Kapalarandhra Dhauti or Head Passage Cleaning
3. Hrid Dhauti or Heart Dhauti is classified into three sub-divisions as:
   1. Danda Dhauti or Stalk Dhauti
   2. Vamana Dhauti or Vomiting
   3. Vastra Dhauti or Cloth Dhauti
4. Mula-shodhana Dhauti or Rectum Dhauti is meant for rectum cleaning.

 

If we sum up, the Dhauti would consist of the following twelve varieties for practice:

1. Vatasara Dhauti or Wind Passing
2. Varisara Dhauti or Water Passing
3. Vahnisara Dhauti or Heat Passing
4. Bahishkrita Dhauti or Blowing Out
5. Dantamula Dhauti or Teeth Cleaning
6. Jihvamula Dhauti or Tongue Cleaning
7. Karnarandhra Dhauti or Ear Duct Cleaning
8. Kapalarandhra Dhauti or Head Passage Cleaning
9. Danda Dhauti or Stalk Dhauti
10. Vamana Dhauti or Vomiting
11. Vastra Dhauti or Cloth Dhauti
12. Mula-shodhana Dhauti or Rectum Dhauti