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NOTE BY A PRACTICAL STUDENT 165 which Prana (breath) moves having the nadis as its vehicles, were stiff. It is only when these two nadis are plaint that a practitioner will not feel unpleasant sensations.
A teacher of Yoga should be near, both to give proper directions and to prescribe proper medicines to allay heat, etc. If through excess of heat in the body generated through Yoga, there is a feeling within as if the internal parts were ulcerated, one should take once or twice a decoction of poppy-seed rind. To allay the general heat produced by Yoga, Yogis, in addition to their milk diet, will have to take every morning a decoction of horse-grass root mixed with 7 pepper corns and 3 fingerfuls of cuminins ( in Tamil., This latter applies to those only upon milk diet. For the present, I would advise our brother, in order to assist the subsiding of the fiery influence within, to either mix a small spoonful of pure castor oil with his food or take it just before going to bed.
Finally I shall have to advise our brother to give up Pranayama, unless he means to restrict himself to proper diet, etc., and to abstain from sexual intercourse. Should our brother be a married person, he need not dream of Pranayama now; for, should he practise it, in spite of all these obstacles to it, it will, I think, cost him his life or end dangerously with him. Our brother may, if he likes to develop his “star," resort to mild methods, such as the hearing of internal sounds at night, when he has closed his ears. Then he will be able to hear the different stages of
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