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Come on the way of Yoga. The unique and marvellous cure of yoga has helped innumerable patients suffering from various diseases to come out of them successfully. It can fortify our body against the attack of any kind of fatal diseases. For all that we need not spend any money.

Here I give you a set of Asanas and Pranayama, which you can do yourself after a brief practise of I week at the most.The Basic Scripture followed here is “Hatayoga Pradeepika” written by Swami Swatmarama who is the proponent of this most important division of Yoga called HATAYOGA.

Pranayama (The Breathing Exercise)

A visitor once asked Ramana Maharshi a baffling question

“Guru, my mind is always wavering. How can I control it?”

The answer came smooth. “It can be done by controlling your breath”

Breathing is the process by which we take in ‘Prana’, the Vital Force from the air. This ‘prana’ pervades each and every single cell of our body supplying it with the Vital Energy. Our body accumulates a lot of impure substances inside during the metabolic activities, and these are removed as the ‘prana’ enters and occupy those places. Whichever body part where ‘prana’ cannot reach, the impurities are get accumulated and that part becomes diseased. In other words the more ‘prana’ we can take inside and retain, the more vital and healthier our body will be. ‘Prana’ is invisible and breathing is its visible manifestation.

Mind and breath are inseparably interlinked together. When one splutters the other one also does. When mind is calm the breath also takes place calm. But when mind goes distorted and turbulent the breath also becomes distorted. You can see and experience it yourself. This shows by controlling the rhythm and way of breath we can very well control our mind. This is what we achieve through “Pranayama” (Control of breath). The words of Ramana Maharshi connote this universal truth.

When a person normally inhales he does not take air lung full, and conversely when he exhales the air already taken in will not go out full. This serious defect is rectified by doing Pranayama.

Hatayoga Pradeepika tells about 8 different types of Pranayamas. But some of these are to be studied directly from the Guru. Only 4 types are given here.