I enjoy doing the simple Neti, but whats the point, really, of doing all those weird advanced methods like Urine Neti, or Sutra Neti ?
A. The more advanced forms of Neti are both specific therapeutic practices in a physical sense, but also they’ve been preserved by the great Gurus and passed onto their disciples as specifically advanced spiritual techniques, methods of awakening the higher mental faculties. Remember too, that they were kept a secret for many centuries, and were considered as occult sciences. It is only in the last 100 years or so that these things have become common knowledge around the western world. These rarer techniques super-sensitise the sinus passages, and stimulate higher sensory functions in the brain and the mind. That’s really why all yoga practices exist. For higher productivity in the art and disciplines of meditation. It’s not really for sinusitis or hayfever or allergies or asthma. The Yogis didn’t have those things thousands of years ago. They used these methods to purify themselves to the ultimate, so their body and mind was a more highly developed instrument for investigation and per
