Yoga Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Agamoday Samiti

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THE SCIENCE OF BREATHING
just after breakfast. With regard to still higher powers, higher than ordinary health and the working in health of all the organs of the body, fhere are rules of course for all the different practises and sciences of this sort, and those are practised by the Yogis, who have from their birth lived a life of purity and holiness and have practised the rules of diet also. Sometimes they live for a year on milk and nothing else, or on clarified butter and nothing else. When they contemplate o the different plexuses they observe these rules and the postures which they assume on these occasions are some of them very difficult. They have to retain a certain position while contemplating for an hour or two hours. There are many other rules which the Yogis practise which they have never given out to any one. It is not the following of these rules that is to be taken into consideration with regard to the Yogis, the chief thing is that they cannot do these exercises unless the body is fit for the powers which it is to obtain, and the body cannot be made fit till the injurious humors are driven out. They also observe · many practises, which, as no person can follow them out in this country, with the life they live and the circumstances under which they must act, it will not be important to discuss. These will not of course be important for business people or those whose object is to make money. These different plexuses in the body are many, of course, but six of them are the most important. Two of them are situated below the
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