Raja-Yoga

38 RAjA YOGA.
that each part of the body can be brought under per
fect control. This the Yogi does through Prdndydma.
Perhaps some of you have read in these books that in
Prdndydma^ when drawing in the breath, you must fill
your whole body with Prdna. In the English transla
tions Prdna is
given as breath, and you are inclined to
ask how that is to be done. The fault is with the
translator. Every part of the body can be filled with
Prdna. this vital force, and when you are able to do
that, you can control the whole body. All the sick
ness and misery felt in the body will be perfectly con
trolled, and, not only so, you will be able to control
another s body. Everything is infectious in this world,
good or bad. If your body be in a certain state of
tension, it will have a tendency to produce the same
tension in others. If you are strong and healthy, those
that live near you will also have the tendency to be
come strong and healthy, but,
if
you are sick and weak,
those around you will have the tendency to become
the same. This vibration will be, as it were, conveyed
to another body. In the case of one man trying to
heal another, the first idea is simply transferring his
own health to the other. This is the primitive sort of
healing. Consciously, or unconsciously health can be
transmitted. The very strong man, living with the
weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he
knows it or not. When consciously done it becomes
quicker and better in its action. Next come those
cases in which a man may not be very healthy himself,
yet we know that he can bring
health to another. The