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Chapter X: The Yogi Theory and Practice of Prana Absorption from Food.1809
Chapter X: The Yogi Theory and Practice of Prana Absorption from
Food.
Nature’s shrewdness in combining several duties into one, and also
in rendering necessary duties pleasant (and thereby likely to be
performed) is illustrated in numberless ways. One of the most striking
examples of this kind will be brought out in this chapter. We will see how
she manages to accomplish several things at the same time, and how she
also renders pleasant several most necessary offices of the physical system.
Let us start with the statement of the Yogi theory of the absorption of
Prana from food. This theory holds that there is contained in the food of
man and the lower animals, a certain form of Prana which is absolutely
necessary for man’s maintenance of strength and energy, and that such form
of Prana is absorbed from the food by the nerves of the tongue, mouth and
teeth. The act of mastication liberates this Prana, by separating the particles
of the food into minute bits, thus exposing as many atoms of Prana to the
tongue, mouth and teeth as possible. Each atom of food contains numerous
electrons of food-prana, or food energy, which electrons are liberated by
the breaking-up process of mastication, and the chemical action of certain
subtle chemical constituents of the saliva, the presence of which have not
been suspected by modern scientists, and which are not discernible by the