Hindu Medicine c8.130
Hindu Medicine c8.130
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c8.130
The prāṇa is noticeable in its flow and warmth. Only the way in which it acts can be observed; but it does not palpably effect any exchange between the air within the body and outside. The neglect of the lungs in Hindu physiology is the more striking, if one considers the traditional fame of breathing technique in yoga tradition, this fascinating bequest of Mother India to modern man that urges him on in new directions of psychic experience, if not toward a revolution of his outlook on the meaning of life and man’s essential nature.