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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
without any affliction to the mind, then it is called
(the internal) Rechaka (exhalation). When the
externally fluctuating Prana enters the nose and
stops there at its tip, then it is called the external
Puraka; but if passing from the tip of the fullblown
nose, it goes (down twelve digits, then it is
also called the external Puraka. When Prana goes
arrested without and Apana within, then it is
called the external Kumbhaka. When the shining
Apana- Vayu takes an upward bent within, then it
is styled the external Rechaka. All these practices
lead to Moksha. Therefore they should ever be
meditated upon. Those who have understood and
practised well all the external and internal
Kumbhakas and others will never after be re-born.
All the eight courses I have given out before are
capable of yielding Moksha. They should be
sought after by day and by night. Those who are
associated with these practices smoothly and
control their minds by not letting them run in other
directions will, in course of time, reach Nirvana.
Such practitioners will never thirst after material
pleasures, like Brahmins who will not defile their
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