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226 RAJA YOGA.
the air through the Pingald (right nostril).
Again fill*
ing in through the Pingald the air should be slowly
rejected through the Idd, in the same way. This
should be practised for three or four years, or three
or four months, according to the directions of a Guru,
in secret (alone in a room) in the early morning, at
midday, in the evening, and at midnight (until) the
nerves become purified, and these are the signs; light
ness of body, clear complexion, good appetite, hearing
of the Ndda. Then should be practised Prdndydma,
composed of Rechaka (exhalation), Kumbhaka (reten
tion), and Puraka (inhalation). Joining the Prdna
with the Apdna is Prdndydma.
In sixteen Mdtrds filling the body from the head to
the feet in thirty-two Mdtrds to be thrown out, with
sixty-four the Kumbhaka should be made.
There is another sort of Prdndydma in which, with
sixteen Mdtrds, the body is to be filled, then the Kum
bhaka is made with sixty-four, and with thirty-two
it
should be rejected.
By Prdndydma impurities of the body are thrown
out; \)y Dhdrand t\\o.
impurities of the mind; by Pratydhdra
impurities of attachment, and by Samddhi is taken
off everything that hides the lordship of the Soul."
Sankhya.
Book III.
29. By the achievement of meditation, there are to
the pure one (the Purud) all powers like nature.
30. Meditation is the removal of attachment.