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PRANAHUTI – ITS RELEVANCE IN SADHANA
Regarding Pranayama, it is significantly replaced in our system. Instead of our trying to control Prana, we are exhorted to yield to the Divine, to the Master, to the Supreme Master who is governing all of us, not necessarily Sri Ramachandraji of Shajahanpur or Fategarh or any person like that, not a personality, the Supreme Master for all of us, God, the Ultimate God. Now in this comes contribution from Rev. Lalaji Maharaj. What he did was, since this Pranayama and other exercises were going on wasting the entire life of a person, he provided an alternative. The sadhanas and other efforts to control the body and breath require all the time we have and by the end of the life also, one is not very sure whether he is settled or not. So you end up in performing Asana and development of Yama and Niyama and Pranayama, as the goal of life itself and go on talking about it. Others say “Nistaparudandi Veedu”, absolutely a person with his high ethical standards etc. We talk too much about it, while each man errs everyday on all these things and each man errs irrespective of which saint he was. This of course, will lead us to some of our epics, where we have seen great saints have fallen just like that because of some lapse. The lapses you have got, I have got, he has got. Here there is not a person who is out of it. So we don’t
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