Inner Utterance into Silence
Bhairava
This verse asks you to focus attention on a specific inner point in the mouth while quietly making a mental upward sound. The point is not the sound itself, but the way it gathers the mind. When the inner motion settles, awareness naturally sinks into quiet.
मध्यवजह्वे िावरतास्ये मध्ये वनक्षप्य चेतनाम् । होच्चारं मनसा कुिंस्तत् शान्ते प्रलीयते ॥ ८१ ॥
madhyavartī jihvāyāṃ hṛdayāsyāyāṃ madhye nikṣipya cetanām | hocchāraṃ manasā kurvīt tat śānte pralīyate || 81 ||
Translation
Placing awareness in the middle of the tongue and palate, one should mentally perform the upward utterance (hocchāra); when that becomes still, it dissolves.
Use a subtle inner articulation to guide awareness into stillness, where the activity of sound collapses into silence.