THE SCIENCE OF PRANAYAMA By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA.pdf

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 10, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1466216530
ISBN-13: 978-1466216532




Body positions typically associated with the practice of Yoga are intended primarily to restore and maintain a practitioner's healthy well-being, and improve the body's flexibility and vitality. These are widely known as Yoga postures or Yoga positions, which is currently practiced for exercise and as popular alternative medicine. Yoga primarily works with the energy in the body through the science of pranayama or energy control. Yoga teaches how to still the mind through breath-control and thereby attain higher states of awareness and wellness. The teachings in this book show the yogi or yoga practitioner how to unleash this harmony within one's self.





Today, for quick travel, the material world presents us the Railway, Steamers, Aeroplanes
and so forth, but the Yogins claim that by Yogic culture the weight of the body can be so reduced
that it can fly over the space to any distance in an instant. They can prepare a magic ointment, which
when applied to the soles of the feet, gives them power to traverse any distance on earth within a
very short time. By the practice of Khechari Mudra, by applying the elongated tongue to the
posterior nasal openings they can fly in the air. By keeping a magic pill in their mouth they can also
move in space to any place in the twinkling of an eye. When we are anxious to know the welfare of
our own relations in a distant or foreign land, we take recourse to writing letters sending ordinary or
urgent cables. But the Yogins claim that they can, by meditation (Dyana), know anything that
happens in other parts of the world by a projection of the mind or by mentally travelling the distance
which is only a matter of few seconds. Yogi Lahiri, whose Samadhi is still in Varanasi, travelled to
London to see the state of health of his superior’s wife. For hearing a friend at a long distance the
material world presents us with telephones and wireless receivers, but the Yogins claim that
through their Yogic power, they can hear anything, from any distance, even the voices of God and
other invisible beings in the firmament. Today when a man is suffering from a disease the material
world presents us with doctors, medicines, injections and so forth, but the Yogins claim that by a
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mere glance or by simple touch or by recitation of Mantras, not only the diseases can be cured but
also life can be given to a dead man.