Book Title: Yoga Philosophy
Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Agamoday Samiti

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________________ THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING 107 equal change. The chest breathing becomes natural to some women because certain parts are pressed so that they cannot move to take the abdominal breathing. So far as the health is concerned the different parts of the body must receive full exercise, and if the exercise is given to one part only at the expense of the rest there is inequality created in the body which gives rise to many diseases. The Hindu science does not stop here, however. It treats of the science from a different standpoint. It is not merely the oxygen of the atmosphere that is considered very important, although it is very important, as an element of supporting the system by oxidizing the blood, but besides this there are so many elements and ethers in the air, that it is necessary that we should understand the nature of all these and their properties and their action on the body. We say that the whole world can be divided into several kinds of ethers, and ultimately we may reach a point where we say that all these different ethers are only forms of one, but for convenience dake we say that there are five. All of these have different properties; I have given the names of all these and their properties in previous lectures, We have to understand the influence and the results produced by these ethers on our body, because breathing is nothing but receiving a compound of all these ethers, and each has something to do with the functions of the body. The first ether is nothing else than that ether which becomes the medium for tran Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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