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The Practice of Prânâyâma
Yoga. TO THE EDITOR, I venture to address you this letter on a matter of the 1 highest importance to me at this moment, and I hope you will sympathize with me and remove my present mental suffering by your kind advice. For some time past I have been meditating on different subjects with the view of concentrating and purifying. my mind. These meditations were upon the “ Three Gems" on love, on death, on the impurities of the body, &c., such as are in use among Buddhists. After going through all these every evening I used to practice “ Anapanasato," which you call the "Regulation of Breath.” When this course had been followed for some time, I saw "streaks of light" and then a star hovering overhead. By degrees this star came closer and closer to me, and at last it touched the top of my head and began to iníuse some fiery influence into my brain. At this stage another spark of light proceeded from space and stopped at times on the left side below the shoulder and at other times on my temples, which made me feel as if my veins were going to burst. In fact these sparks of fire were devoloping into a cricle of fire around the head. I felt a burning sensation in the head and body, and further observed a dim star
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