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SRI RAMCHANDRA’S RAJAYOGA – THE NEW DARSANA
Having established this position, he suggests that a fellow human being who is capable of Pranahuti is the one that is to be chosen to assist the sadhaka in the practice. Prana is something that every living human being is crowned with and that kingly thing is what is to be used for reaching the Ultimate. But as any king or people in power, it is generally utilised for perpetuation for self and very rarely offered to others. Power when shared loses its strength. This is what is found in all mundane matters. But Prana if offered only swells in its strength and purity. This is what Revered Babuji asserts and exhorts trainers to utilise every conceivable opportunity to do “ahuti” of the prana for the betterment of the relationship between humans and the Divine which is somehow estranged.
As contrasted to Pranayama which is controlling prana for varying periods of time and which it is held will ultimately lead to control of mind, i.e. through the control of physical the idea that control of mind is achieved (which is but a form of expression of the Mens sana corporea sano, or a sound mind due to sound body, which is also the basis of hatha yoga), Revered Babuji asserts that through the regulation of the mind i.e. by pranahuti alone, yoga is possible and
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