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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
and raises one by itself without any support to the
transcendental Jnana that is all-pervading and
stainless, all the noble Pranavayus shone with
effulgence in his body, producing and raising
sound in it. Then did the process of Rechaka
(expiration) arise in the whole body exhaling the
Pranavayu without. Like Muni Agastya who
sipped with one sip the whole ocean and rendered
it void of water, his whole body was rendered void
of Pranavayu which lifted itself up to the regions of
Brahmakasa of partless Jnana essence. The great
Agni of the heart (Jnanagni) pervaded the whole
body and burnt it up (within). This is the first stage
of Pranava. This stage of Rechaka shines or (arises)
not through Hatha yoga. For does not Hatha yoga
generate dire pains? Then in the equillibrated stage
of the second, viz., Ukara of the noble Pranava, the
immoveable Kumbhaka (cessation of breath) was
induced in the Pranavayus which pervaded the
whole body. The non-agitated Pranavayus were
then full both externally and internally, high and
low and in the quarters and the Akasa, like bellows
stuffed with air. In an instant, the Agni which
burnt the body in the previous stage was now
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