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TULSI-PRAJNÁ diet i.e. Mitāhāra21 will naturally be free from the diseases, and hence he will have a special energy which is very healthy. Thereafter, he becomes eligible for the practice of prānāyāma and therefore in course of the practice of prānāyāma he gradually gets away the dosas or Kalmașa and any other such Tyājya padārtha or waste products Then he seldom possesses such waste products during the advanced stages of prāņāyāma. Therefore, we can say that the sweat of such an aspirant, seldom possesses any doşas. Every minute particle or Jivakana will have subtle exercise by prānāyāma and the sweat excreted as such sweat containing more proteins, when goes out from the body, there is every possibility of losing the minimum proteins required to the body. Therefore, such kind of sweat needs to be reabsorbed in the body by way of rubbing that sweat again to the body so as to supply the required proteins and as a result of which the body becomes sturdy and the sweat glands too become powerful and the body becomes light also 22 In addition to this we may note that when the body becomes hot due to breath control (prānāyāma), excess water may be lost during prānāyāma. We may compare the Siva-samhitā which supports this view from other angle. There it is said : When the body perspires, rub it well into the body, otherwise the Yogi loses his dhätu''23 or the seven basic tissues namely 'Saptadhātu' viz. rasa (plasma), rakta (blood), mānisa (muscular tissue, medas (adipose-tissue), asthi (bone tissue), maijā (marrow tissue) and śukra (reproductive tissue). To maintain these, certain chemical hormones are produced and when they cannot be stored, they are expelled from the system. If there is perspiration due to prāņāyāma, chemical hormones are released unnecessarily. Therefore the perspiration should be rubbed back in to the skin so that the hormones are reabsorbed through the pores. This also helps to rebalance the system and tone the nerves and muscles.
To sum up, after the performance of Asanas and Şațkriyās, the aspirant in the developing stage of practising prāņāyāma known as Nādi sodhana kriyā, attains a state of purification and starts sweating due to the heat produced in the body. This sweat helps the body to maintain the normal temperature of the body, by loss of accrued heat. In this process the body loses the Dosas or dirt and becomes very clean. The body which thus has lost the Jadatva or grossness attains Laghutva and hence becomes laghu. Since the aspirant is in the advanced stage of Prānāyāma, the sweat contains the proteins that the doșas because of his proper diet i.e. Mitähāra And this sweat containing protein (when goes out from the body, the aspirant may lack the required proteins to the body) needs to be rubbed to his body
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