Guest guest Posted May 8, 2001 Report Share Posted May 8, 2001 INDOLOGY, "Lynken Ghose" <lynkenghose@h...> wrote: > Dmitri: > > Could you give me the text from which you are getting these translations? > I'd be interested in the Sanskrit text as well as verse #s. > I don't know of any text that gives translations I posted, though I don't think there is any thing original my rendering. I reconstructed them from descriptions of techniques of breathing and explanations of "cosmic energy" flows that are spread around technical texts. The one I used most and the one that is the clearest about it all is a book of Swami Rama "Science of Breathing". For example, vyaana is explained there as the flow responsible for general relaxation of muscules. The "cosmic energy" is one and the same no matter which "vital breath" you consider, but cyclic flows are different. The musclular effort/relaxation accentuates different flows and the reverse is true as well. vyaana is most pronounced when inhalation is changed by exhalation because between the two there neccessarily should be relaxation of muscles responsible for inhalation. That is why vyaana is associated with the moment between inhalation and exhalation. In general, the flows are associated with different parts of body or muscle groups by the degree of accentuation of those flows by those muscle groups or body parts. The "vital breaths" exist on there own and one of the goals of praanaayaama is to make them less dependent on the physical body parts. Hope it helps, Dmitri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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