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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
Here Vasistha, though familiar with the control of
Prana, asked him what he meant by it. To which
the Yogi went on thus „In the cool lotus of the heart
within this visible tenement of flesh composed of
the five elements, there are two Vayus, Prana and
Apana commingled in it. Those, who tread
smoothly and without any the slightest effort the
path of these two Vayus, will become the sun and
the moon themselves in the heart-Akasa and will
rove in the Akasa and yet be animating and
carrying their fleshy tabernacle. These Vayus will
go up and down to higher and lower states. They
are of the same nature in the waking, dreaming
and dreamless sleeping states, and permeate all
throughout. I am moving in the direction of these
two Vayus and have rendered nil all my Vasanas
(in the waking state), like unto those of the
dreamless sleeping state. Divide a filament of the
lotus stalk into a thousand times and you will find
these Vayus more subtle than that. Hence it is, it is
difficult for me to treat about the nature of these
Vayus (and their vibrations). Of these, Prana does
ceaselessly vibrate in this body with an upward
motion both externally and internally; while
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