The Yoga of Patanjali

112 Lessons on The Yoga of PatanjaliPranayama without this regulation of activity is highlydangerous. This caution is unfortunately not known by 90% ofthose who teach Pranayama for earning money. They enrollyou and advise you to enforce pranayama upon your lungsand they become helpless. One side, you should regulate yourdaily programme and on the other side, you should graduallybrief yourself into the Pranayama process. If you do not carefor the first half, you will be lame by one leg. Jumping with theone leg is but limping. It may injure the other leg also. Thissimultaneous approach from the two poles apart to the centreof your consciousness will give you the real progress and itcauses the inevitable fruition.At first your breath will be regulated. It results in theabsence of the external and internal disturbances. At first youwould have a place to practise which is your own and in courseof time you will have your own place wherever you sit. Physicallocation is necessary only until the mental location is made.After some time you will find the light which you call “I AM”.All the layers of obscuration will be removed. Light shines forth.The I AM in you is the same I AM in me, but it is normallyconditioned by the mode of mind, the mood of the day, andthe doubts and the sorrows and habits. These are all the layersthat obscure the one light “I AM” that shines forth from themany domes which we call the vehicles. Normally we call thelayer and the vehicles by the name “I AM”. And by that wemean the impure and the smoked glasses. All these layers willbe removed. The I AM that shines as the Lord-consciousnessin everyone cannot be conditioned, but it is conditioned to usjust as the Sun, who cannot be covered, is covered by theclouds to us. All this obscuration will be removed through thisprocess of Pranayama. Mind stands one with life and the unitof the mind and life stands one with the light. Withdrawal of themind and a total absorption of the existence of the not-self will