The Yoga of Patanjali

100 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjalithere, we are permitted to know that it is there. This is becausewe begin to exist only when it is there. Soul, the ninth natureexists as co-eternal with Spirit, the Lord of the whole creationand He proposes Life to breath into a Unit and then we arethere. The spirit does not propose but the soul, the ninth natureproposes to direct life into respiration so that the other eightnatures build objectivity. They form the vehicles to the lifethat keeps on breathing. Eternity is the content of Spirit andSoul (the tenth and ninth natures). Hence the Lord of Eternityis a double unit. From this comes down what we call periodicity.This acts as the Law of pulsation which necessitates the ‘Lawof Respiration’. It is to breathe out and re-absorb the wholecreation. During the process, the myriads of living beings arebreathed out and they begin to breathe until they are breathedin. The periodicity produces the Law of Pulsation which iscalled Prana in the Yogic literature. In some text books Pranais translated as breath. It is not correct. Breath is the result ofPrana. We are breathing not because we want to live, but becauseof the activity of the Law of Pulsation.Pulsation is double in its nature, centripetal and centrifugal.One pulse is different from the next and there is the alternationwhich produces the charge in the form of a current which wecall the span. Each pulsation has a couple of complementaryvibrations and each couple differs from the next. Then there isthe habit-forming nature that keeps on the repetition of thisalternation. This is what takes place as existence in prana planefundamentally. Our respiration is allowed to repeat, galvanisedby the power of habit. Then follows the double pulsation of theheart which we call circulation. All this process is the power ofwhat we vaguely know as “Music”. It is said in the Vedas thatthere are intelligences in Nature who play the music and theyare called “Gandharvas”. What we discover as music on theconscious plane has its basis in these principles of the Gandharvas