Atmayogaasutra

Author(s): Ram
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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breath,
lengthening, shortening, developing and diffusing the constituted of the Atman and the Anatman.
8. The pranayama is the science of the breath-discipline by which the meditator draws unto his Atman, the spatoms through inhalation, which disjoin matoms attached with the Atman and throws them out through exhalation. It consists of six processes, (1) Prana connotes in-breath, (2) Apana, the out-breath, (3) Udana, the up-breath, (4) Avana, the down-breath, (5) Vyana, the diffused breath and (6) Samana, the middle-breath. The Samana is the best as it is identical with the Samatvam (realibrium).
9. The meditational processes, in the beginning, shall only be mental (psychological), which, by and by, shall merge in the intellectual and the both finally merging in the spirital. The Atmayogin shall ever remain aware and careful about the right nature of these threefold aspects of the meditation.
10. The Atmayogin may, in the beginning, make the point of his meditation any matteric object, his nose-point, any treepoint, any artifically created point or the numerals Zero or One or any other or any word including the word Soham. But he should clearly understand that all these aids are matteric and he has to transcend through them to the Atman. Finally, he has to stabilise his Atman in Himself.
11. The meditator, during meditations, shall mentally rise to the highest part of the realuum, conceiving that he is above the turmoils of the Samsara, and in company with the Siddhas. The Siddhas reside in the highest part of the universe but every part of the universe is the highest in relation to the lowest. Our planet Earth is also a highest part to some planet in the lowest region in relation to it. The meditator, thus, shall mentally occupy all the parts of the totality (Poornatva) that the universe is. The company of the Siddhas shall provide him the purest spatoms to inhale so that the exhaled matoms soon get annihilated.
12. The meditator may, alternatively, also make the whole earth as his Asana, mentally rise above along with it, stablise in
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