IT’S ALL ABOUT PRANA


 

You exist thanks to prana.

It is a force which pervades every flower, every tree, every living being and every cell. Wind blows thanks prana, the sea moves through prana. Wether waking or sleeping nether body nor mind can function without prana. Food and light also sustain prana.

The word prana means force in constant motion.

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Human Life, Cosmic Happenings and Tantra


 

You might have already heard about Prana, Yoga and Tantra but especially if you are a Westerner you will be very surprised how you are stumbled into a false informations about all three.

Just like many, you most probably think that tantra is something that can make your sexual life blooming. There is nothing wrong with blooming sexual life whether romantic or not you are a living being just like any other.

But Tantra is the oldest science on Earth about man and a very sophisticated philosophy.

And Yoga is part of that science.

Now, according to those profound sciences the cosmic vital energy is manifested in the physical body as the individual vital energy.

That energy is divided into five energy body levels or koshas.

Five Layers of Your Body


 

There is one ancient Indian text on it and it is called Taittiriya Upanishad.

The five layers or panca kosha vishleshana are according to that text inteconected sheaths of the Self. Each sheath is subtler than the other:

The first sheath is the physical sheath which is food, air, water or annamaya kosha.

The second is the sheath of vital energy or pranamaya kosha.

The third is the mental sheath, the conscious experience, or manomaya kosha.

The fourth is the intuitive experience of the outer world or vijnanamaya kosha.

The fifth is anandamaya kosha which is the experience of unification with the cosmic prana, with the higher knowledge where all other forces melt into each other (Yoga generally means unity, harmony).

The first tree sheets are connected to the matter and the last two to the spirit.

Interconnected Appearances


 

Prana is the vital energy which we draw into ourselves from the surrounding universe.

The individual prana is constantly connected to its source just like some invisible thread. Both energies are in a constant movement and if prana stops there will be no life.

Prana which surrounds us carries a very strong vibration and breath is the grossest manifestation of that vibration. What connects the universal energy with the individual is breath. What we firstly do when we come out of our mother’s womb is we breathe in.

Finer oscillations than breath are of the nerve currents, the vibrations of our thoughts, wishes, emotions. So, if we control our breath we can control our thoughts and emotions too. This is what pranayama or breathing technique does.

“No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.”

– Jorge Luis Borges