Hindu Medicine c8.67
Hindu Medicine c8.67
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c8.67
Life-breath, man’s inner swan, remains faithful to the abode it has chosen in man’s body; through its incessant twofold movement the swan reestablishes the continuity of its participation in both spheres, the inner and the outer, the higher and the lower. Prāṇa plays the rôle of the life-giving guest of the human body, as it were, deigning to stay on and to bestow its beneficent presence for a full life-time; if properly honored, it never withdraws completely, though free to do so; communing in a ceaseless rhythm with the sphere beyond the organism, it proceeds from its apertures with one of its limbs: