Hindu Medicine c8.46

c8.46

The devotee, in paying homage to his own life-breath (prāṇa), first celebrates it as the cosmic life-principle, the Lord of All, whose enlivening forces manifest themselves most impressively at the rainy season; hence the references to rain, thunder and lightning that quicken vegetation and cattle and rescue nature from the merciless summer heat. The rain-bearing monsoon wind, thought of as carrying on its wings the refreshing fluid of the life-giving celestial waters, is the most patent and auspicious manifestation of the life-breath of the universe.