Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
extinguished, like a flashing lightning. The body
became snow-white like the burnt white ashes,
thereby revealing within it bones, muscles and
other things in regular order. All the net- work of
bones appeared in a regular gradation, as if
sleeping in a bed of camphor. With Vayu, these
white ashes were raised up in the air and in a
moment permeated the whole Akasa. All these
collected themselves in one place like wintry
clouds. Thus was the second stage of Pranava
attained, wherein he was till his longed*for
required time. This stage was not developed
through Hatha yoga which generates endless pain.
Then in the third quiescent stage of Pranava, vis.,
Makara, the Pranavayus reached the stage called
Puraka (Inspiration) on account of their Purana
fullness). In that painless stage, all the Pranas
entered the nectar of intelligence. All the
Pranavayus which were cool, as if drenched in
snow, became the Mandala (sphere) of the moon in
the midst of the Akasa, like the evaporated smoke
in the atmosphere transmuted into the cool clouds.
Then the Pranas laden with the nectarine showers
descended down from the Akasa and soaked the
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