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chords (larynx) and nose such that its reverberations are felt right up to the cerebral hemisphere.
4.
During this process let the lungs spontaneously exhale the accumulated alveolar air.
5.
Feel as if the entire body is engulfed in to the sound waves of Mahapran Reverberations.
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Now, inhale again. Repeating it five times is normally adequate.
This exercise can be attempted anywhere, anytime during the day. Benefits will be tangible within a short period of time.
Two-pronged Strategy
There are schools and institutions which impart education on wide ranging subjects but there is hardly any organized effort to impart moral and behavioural guidance. This lopsided stress on knowledge is slowly resulting in weird sadism, bizarre violence, and barbaric treatment of weaker strata of society, which includes not only economically poor but women and children too. This calls for an immediate strengthening of our moral back-up programs. Study of Lifesciences as proposed by Mahapragya is a timely step in right direction as it emphasizes on four-fold development -
• Management of Emotions, Values and Virtues
• Mitigation of Temper and Destructive Tendencies • Enrichment of Positive and Constructive Energy Nurturing of Team and Social spirit
We must acknowledge the fact that all humans born with natural instincts which have both virtues and vices. These emotions of anger-compassion, revenge-forgiveness, love-hate, etc. are nothing but various chemical activities within the brain. And these activities can be controlled through the proper software programming of thoughts. To achieve this we shall have to adopt twopronged strategy - one of acquiring academic excellence through institutional education and second of practicing life-sciences through meditation, yoga and moral building. Mahapragya says the vehicle of life can run and achieve new goals if the two wheels of knowledge and character are maintained well balanced. And then only the moral bankruptcy, blatantly visible today, will give way to cultural and spiritual richness.
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