The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 118 : The Art of Breathing - 2

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 118 🌹

🌴 The Art of Breathing - 2 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 The Pulsation of the Soul 🌻

People have a high opinion about physical exercises as a means to maintain well-being. 

They jog and do other exercises, yet they fall ill despite the purest diet and the most healthy habits. Physical exercises do not compare to a continual working with breathing, because subtle effects are much more powerful than physical ones. 

Those who regularly work with breathing fall ill very rarely and benefit from surpassing health and strength.

By doing breathing exercises, the body adopts a particular rhythm that enables us to reach the soul through the personality. 

When we focus on breathing, we give attention to an effect of the soul; thus, we come continually closer to her. It is not the physical form that breathes, but the soul. 

She is in ongoing rhythmical meditation. Her pulsation maintains respiration and the life of the form. The soul’s pulsation continues even after the death of the body. 

Hence, we continue our conscious living when we connect with this pulsation.

Pulsation is the subtle aspect of breathing, and the subtle aspect of air is called Prana. 

The element of air builds a bridge between the detached and the oceanic consciousness. Inhaling brings the divine man and also the life principle in form of oxygen to us. 

Exhaling forces out of us carbon dioxide, which stops the flow of life. Deep breathing oxygenates the blood, calls more subtle matter into the body, and forces gross matter out of it. 

We should ensure that our speech is good, our mouth clean, and the passage from the nostrils to the lungs is free.

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Sources used: Master K.P. Kumar: On Healing / Hercules / notes from seminars.

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