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and beasts and ultimately on all objects, big and small, animate and inanimate.
एवं परासु देहेषु जीवद्देहप्रवेशस्तु
नोच्यते
Meaning: In this manner, one should enter the body of a dead person through breath of the left artery. The subject of entering into the bodies of the living beings is not touched upon here on account of the fear of sin.
प्रविशेद्वामनासया ।
पापशङ्कया ।। २७२ ।।
Explanation
ब्रह्मरंध्रण निर्गत्य प्रविश्यापानवर्त्मना । श्रित्वानाभ्यम्बुजं यायात् हृदम्भोजं सुषुम्णया ।। १ ।। तत्र तत्प्राणसंचारं निरुन्ध्या भिजवायुना । यावद्देहात्ततो देही गतचेष्टो विनिष्पतेत् ॥ २ ॥ तेन देहे विनिर्मुक्ते प्रादुर्भूतेन्द्रियक्रियः । वर्त्तेत सर्वकार्येषु स्वदेह इव योगवित् ॥ ३ ॥ दिनार्धं वा दिनं चेति क्रीडेत्परपुरे सुधीः । श्रनेन विधिना भूयः प्रविशेदात्मनः पुरं ॥ ४ ॥
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Meaning Getting out from the aperture of the crown of the head, one should enter the other's body through the anus and reach the lotus of the navel. From there onwards, one should go to the lotus of the heart. Here he should try to stop, by his own breath, the movement of the breath of the body he has entered. He should do this till the body he has entered becomes motionless and falls down on earth. The original soul leaves the body and the yogi may
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