Laghu YOGA VASISHTHA - HolyBooks.com

LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
hands by the touch of a dog s skin. They will ever
be in this uniform practice, whether walking or
standing, whether waking, dreaming or soundly
sleeping. They will never be afflicted with bondage
or pains. They will encompass all legitimate
longed-for results. Prana having flown out, will
again be absorbed in the heart having run back
twelve digits. Similarly will Apana be absorbed in
the heart, having issued out of the heart and
running back twelve digits to it. Apana, being the
moon, will cool the whole body in its passage. But
Prana, being the sun, will generate heat in the
system and cook (or digest) everything in it. Will
pains arise in one who has reached that supreme
state when the Kalas (rays) of Apana, the moon,
are drowned by Prana, the sun? Will re-birth arise
in one who has reached that powerful Seat when
the Kalas of Prana, the sun are devoured by Apana,
the moon? Those will arrest at once the seven
births who reach that neutral state when they find
Apana Vayu consumed by Prana and vice versa. I
eulogise that Chidatman who is in that
intermediate state when Prana and Apana are
absorbed in one another. I meditate ceaselessly
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