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164 NOTE BY A PRACTICAL STUDENT in the cavernous plexus there. It is by acting upon thi point that hypnotizers produce giddiness in their subjects Any disturbance in that place, caused either through an in tense concentration of mind at that spot or through Prana ya ma, serves to unsettle the mind and therefore produce giddiness. It costs - Yogi a great deal of effort and difficult to conquer this point, and unless he is strong-willed hi sometimes becomes mad or mentally affected. Now wher a shock was given to this plexus through Pranayama (coupled with the burning sensation within), and thereby to the mind in it, our brother's mind got dizzy and he was unable to think. In these circumstances, however, one should never give way to fear, but meet these difficulties with courage.
No doubt all these difficulties in the case of beginners can be easily got over with a proper diet and with the guidance of a knower of Yoga. It was not prudent on the part of our brother to have resorted to Pranayama without first regulating his diet. A practitioner should not only abstain from flesh, etc., but also from all pungent substances at the outset. Further should he wish to have success in Pranayama all through, he must abstain from all tastes except swectness. He should live upon food prepared in milk, and rice or wheat, with sugar to sweeten it. He should take a sufficient quantity of it-neither less nor more. In the case of our brother when he betook himself to Pranayama he had not abstained from fish and meat even. Such being the case, it is no wonder that he felt as if his viens would crack, inasmuch as his Ida and Pingala nadis (nerves ?), upon
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