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106 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjaliprescribed as Pranayama in some schools of Yoga. There maybe a greater truth in the process but it is not known by eitherPatanjali or the Author of the Bhagavadgita.It is a sufficient reason for us not to follow that method.We wanted to follow Patanjali’s Yoga in the beginning and let usnot skid away into the Ashrams of different Gurus. NeitherPatanjali nor Bhagavadgita prescribe us any Khumbaka inPranayama. Sometimes you can ask, why can’t we doKhumbaka? You may say that the retention of breath is alsonecessary for some purpose. That is what the school of HathaYoga says. It may be true, it may be necessary for some specificpurpose. At the same time your lungs say that it is necessary tobreathe. There is oxygen available and there is the urge of thelungs for oxygen. If you know more than the oxygen and yourlungs, it is O. K. If your specific purpose to do Khumbaka ismore valuable than your life, it is well and good. It is a questionof life and death, because the lungs need oxygen to live, moreprecisely, to make you live. The lungs never wanted to live butthey always want to make you live since it is their appointedduty. Your lungs are wiser than yourself since nature is alwayswiser than any products of nature. If you allow the lungs todecide, it is one way. If you want to decide, it is another way,the way of Hatha Yoga. Here Patanjali and Bhagavadgita deviatefrom the other schools of thought. Hence we too prefer to deviate.We stick on to Patanjali since we started to study Patanjali’sbook and follow it. The path of Patanjali, the Bhagavadgita andthe Masters is always one. You can choose the other way butbe sure you are not in the path of the Bhagavadgita, Patanjaliand the Masters. We feel it better to be under the care of certainscientists, who are practical and who assure us everything aboutthe results without a mystification. Is it better to have medicinefrom a doctor, who is well experienced, or is it better to chooseone’s own medicine? Commonsense tells us that it is always
Lesson - 6 107desirable to leave ourselves to the care of a doctor. If we beginto experiment upon ourselves the responsibility lies with us.Now there is the fourth step. As you follow the previousstep you will find that your respiration becomes more and moreuniform, and it begins to identify with the music which producedrespiration on the background of space. It is what the learnedones call the Law of Pulsation. Now you are under the directcare of a Universal Law which knows the Law of Periodicityaccording to which, it knows when to exercise the phenomenonof re-absorption (which is ignorantly called death). Your awarenessis turned more and more with the music of your backgroundwhich produced your respiration. Then the mind merges in thepulsation and there are no two items existing. The mind that isobserving respiration is no more different from the activity ofrespiration. See how the musician, while singing in a concert,becomes more and more aware of music and less and lessaware of the anatomy of music. The beat is conducted betterwhen the musician forgets the beat. Do you know why thenovice of a musician fails to maintain the beat? It is because ofhis careful awareness of the beat. The careful driver is moreaware of the detail of his driving and you know the result. Thedriving is a big hell and it is exposed to risk. As the driverbecomes less and less aware of the detail of driving he findsthat himself and the driving are not two. This is the experienceof a driver who has become, a Master. A musician who is areal artist is passively aware of the totality of what he produceswhile he is not at all aware of the detail he has to work out. Hewill be one with the music and there are no two items like themusic and the musician.Similarly you will be one with your respiration and thereare no two things Like your awareness and your respiration.Prana and respiration are one in nature. Now your mind and
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