Theos-Talk Archives (July 1996 Message tl00118)

Quote by Max on Patanjali:
>II,49. This having been (accomplished) Pranayama which is cessation of 
>inspiration and  expiration (follows).

	Prana-yama or "pranic death" will occur automatically
when prana from the incoming air energizes the body, and 
breathing stops.  It will stop because it is no longer necessary,
the body living on the prana instead.  This is how yogis can
be buried for long periods of time without air to breathe.  It is
so easy to do that even I can do it (a few minutes only).

	Jerry S.
	Member TI

Now for my quote:

"The fundamental task which gives the key to many
realizations is the silence of the mind ... All kinds of
discoveries are made, in truth, when the mental
machinery stops, and the first is that if the power
to think is a remarkable gift, the power not to
think is even more so."  (Satprem,1968, SRI
AUROBINDU OR THE ADVENTURE OF 
CONSCIOUSNESS)