Raja-Yoga

SO
RAjA YOGA.
changed into something like electricity. When all the
motions of the body have become perfectly rhythmical
the body has, as it were, become a gigantic battery of
will. This tremendous will is
exactly what the Yogi
wants. This is, therefore, a physiological explanation
of the breathing exercise. It tends to bring a rhyth
mic action in the body, and helps us, through the
respiratory centre, to control the other centres. The
aim of Prdndydma here is to rouse the coiled-up power
in the MMddhdra, called the Kundalini.
Everything that we see, or imagine, or dream, we
have to perceive in space. This is the ordinary space,
called the MahdkdSa, or great space. When a Yogi
reads the thoughts of other men, or perceives supersensuous
objects, he sees them in another sort of space
called the ChittdkdSa, the mental space. When percep
tion has become objectless, and the soul shines in its
own nature,
it is called the Chiddkdta, or knowledge
space. When the Kundalini is
aroused, and enters the
canal of the Sutumnd all the perceptions are in the
mental space. When it has reached that end of the
canal which opens out into the brain, the objectless
perception is in the knowledge space. Taking the
analogy of electricity, we find that man can send a
current only along a wire, but nature requires no wires
to send her tremendous currents. This proves that
the wire is not really necessary, but that only our in
ability to dispense with it
compels
us to use it.
Similarly, all the sensations and motions of the body
are being sent into the brain, and sent out of it, through