PRANAYAMA

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          PRANAYAMA

 

You have to use the three Vedas.That is,---place the mind upon your

respiration.This is the firsrt step.How to place the mind upon respiration ?

Being to observe your respiration.You can observe only with  the mind.You

cannot abserve with ear or nose of anything. ‘Observe’  means only with the

mind, nothing else.You cannot observe with the leg or hand.Eeryday spend

sometime making an observation of your respiration.That is, observe the

movements that are taking place while your breathing is taking place.What are

you to do for this ? You have to sit calmly at a place.We are going  backwards

in the step of practice to make  it understand better. So you have to sit

calmly at a place which is clean and having pure surroundings.. So what we have

to do firstly is to select a place which is clean,pure and calm.In the

Bhagavadgita, it is said, ‘’ Shuchou Deshe prathisthapya’’. Then select

a posture which is convenient and comfortable to your

constututuion.So don’t prescribe ‘Padmasna’ to all.Let everyone starts

his own constitution as a starting point and then he should better himself. The

reaching goal must be the same, but the starting point need not be the

same.Suppose I prescribe padmasana to all and ask them to be seated in it

without any movement for half an hour.In the case of some,legs will become like

sticks.Labourers have to employed in order to move  their legs.Afterwards,

their knees will loose movement and sounds ‘Tuk,Tuk, will be produced.In that

position, there will be no question of his mind attaining stability,as his knees

are suffering fromdrawin pains.Suppose, a guru takes all his disciples to a shoe

shop and purchases shoes of  the size relevant to his feet to all of them.What

is the fun of it !The same is , if all are asked to take  ‘Padmasana’.An

Oriental  ‘Guru’ for the first time went to the Occident.He  asked the

pupils to come to his initiation

and asked them to come there by 4 A.M. He thought it was like India.One of the

fellows asked ‘ ‘Can we have our breakfast and come ?   ‘’ He said ,

No, no.That is a great sin . It is a crime itself  ‘’.Then the disciples

came with appetite and humger in the morning and were sitting like hounds.The

Guru said,  ‘’ Close your eyes,’’ They closed. He was about to tell

them’’Gurur Brahma’’ and said ‘’What do you see?.They said,

‘’Two slices of bread with some butter in between . ‘’(All such humorous

illustrations of Master created a happy laugh among the pupils and gave them a

relaxation and further they were drawn to his yogic presence.)

 

So one should not be foolish.Select a place and select a posture which is

convenient to the fellow.You start with a stage of the fellow.Then let him sit

down upon some comfortable place and close his eyes.Let him observe what is

taking place in him.Priorly,we use to think that we are breathing ourselves;we

are breathing our air, we are eating our food, we are doing our job.These are

our fanciful thoughts of  illusion. We breathe our air only when we

smoke.(Laugh of the puils).In fact, at all other times, the indweller viz., the

Lord – Consciousness in us  breathing his own air.This air belongs to

Him.This property which we think our own, belongs to Him .This body too belongs

to Him.(Laugh).So what we call this body, it is given to us.It is not ours.It is

hypothecated to God-Bank.We owe all these to Him.This body is like a shop

established by Him.Here in this, we have put up the stock. Taken from Him on

credit.We are making business, by selling His

stock.We must know this you cannot cross the  threshold to go into the higher

and inner realms of consciousness for spiritual progress.Later ,gradually the

mind goes nearer and nearer the respiration , by way of your observation of

respiration with your mind.

 

TOBE CONTINUED…..

 

COURTESY-MASTER .E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A