Yoga Philosophy

SR No.: 006542
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Devchand Lalbhai Pustakoddhar Fund
Publication Year: 1912
Total Pages: 284
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Yoga
File Size: 11 MB

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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING.
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may be taken. When the breathing has been regulated in the way which I have pointed out, that is, by breathing in for a certain length of time, keeping the breath for a certain time, and breathing out for a stated time, this practice should be taken for ten minutes or more every day, and there are still other rules which are to be observed for the purpose of rising spiritually; and connected with these rules are the rules of diet, because when a person omits the rules of diet it will be of no use for him to observe the rules of breathing A person eating meat is not in a condition favourable to spiritual progress. The rules of diet therefore must be important. There are finer elements which are contained in the air, and which should be allowed to have their influences freely in all parts of the body, and therefore these parts should not be stiffened, as it were, by the use of injurious food. The best time for breathing in this way that I have described is the time just before breakfast, because when the physical work is not going on, and all the organs are quiet and ready to receive the life principie, and even forces subtler than that. Therefore all exercise of a religious nature should take place before breakfast. No one ought to practise these exercises just after breakfast. With regard to still higher powers, higher than ordinary health and the working in health of all the organs of the body, there are rules of course for all the different practises and sciences of this sort, and those are practised by the Yogis, who have from their birth lived a life of purity and holiness and have