Breath is Time

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Dear Sri Vaishnavas,

 

I found this article when browsing, it has some interesting points

about breathing and food .

 

adiyEn,

 

sriram,balaraman

 

Breath is Time

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That which is real is the respiration, say Sanskrit texts. A respiration

consists of two halves, an inhalation and an exhalation. The obstacles

to Sun-Moon respiration, or equipose-breathing, are caused by

conditioning.

 

 

Food is of three types

 

* impressions

* breath

* edibles.

 

Just as without food we are starved and die, and without oxygen we

suffocate, so without impressions we could not survive. Wrong food

affects us, faulty breathing starves the blood of oxygen, lack of

impressions causes physiological disturbance.

 

Relating our own body to cosmology,

 

Our earth centre, our physical or planetary body, is sustained by food.

 

Our emotional centre (Sol) is sustained by breath.

 

Our intellectual centre (Moon) is sustained by impressions.

 

Speech is breath modulated by the physical organism in various ways

depth of breathing, muscle tension, shape of mouth, shape of mental

impressions. The Indian measure is that 10 long syllables make 1 breath.

There are smaller subdivisions of time ending with the paramanu -- this

is related to the time taken to sense an impression.

 

 

Words are said to have a delusive nature (Mahamaya Matrika) because the

word itself, although it may contain a reference to an object is often

surrounded by clusters or Kulas of lesser Shaktis, These lesser Shaktis

themselves indicate other references to objects. These Shaktis are what

are called 'associations of thought', clusters of sense impressions,

connected perhaps by links which are unique to an individual.

 

 

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