| Prana, which is also known as vital energy, is in the air, | | | | further on this point, you can see Prana is a power |
| our bodies, and objects around us. One of my | | | | that is everywhere, is not an object, and apparently is |
| students remarked that Prana could not be in his Yoga | | | | difficult for the human mind to define. |
| mat, since it was an inanimate object. | | | | We are smug and take our ability to learn for granted. |
| After all, his Yoga mat was not a living being, so how | | | | At the touch of our finger tips, the Internet gives us |
| could it contain Prana? How could ancient Yogis know | | | | much more access to knowledge than ancient Yogis |
| of the existence of Prana about 5,000 years ago? | | | | had in all of their scriptures, and in any other scriptures |
| We cannot visibly see vital energy? None of us can | | | | that existed, on earth, at that time. |
| see the mind create ideas either. Yet the mind creates | | | | However, the ancient Yogis took the time to observe |
| ideas, and we put them into action, with our voice and | | | | nature and the cosmos. They were in tune with their |
| hands. So, Prana is not an object. | | | | surroundings and the natural laws of the universe. The |
| We cannot see a Yoga mat move, but it is moving all | | | | ancient Yogis did not have to waste their time with |
| the time - at the atomic level. In fact, your Yoga mat is | | | | spam and disinformation. Achievements and mistakes |
| full of open space at the atomic level. Electrons are | | | | are always made, but they documented them, so we |
| flying around in many open spaces within your Yoga | | | | could learn from them. |
| mat. | | | | Without tools, computers, or machines, Pranayama is a |
| On the other hand, we are born, live, and die, on planet | | | | method to alter Prana at a level, in which the human |
| Earth, a moving object, which does not appear to be | | | | mind can easily comprehend. Pranayama is Yoga's |
| moving at all. The universe is infinitely vast and infinitely | | | | answer to regulating Prana, with the breath. |
| small, at the same time. Prana is the power behind the | | | | In Yoga, Pranayama can be used to heal in times of |
| perpetual movement of the universe. We now know | | | | need. Pranayama is useful for stress, grief, anxiety, |
| that the universe is moving at every level. | | | | nervousness, and many more ailments, which plague |
| Within Prasna Upinshad, Chapter 2, Verse 5, Prana is | | | | mankind, but Pranayama should be learned with the |
| described in this way: "It burns as fire. It is the sun, rain, | | | | guidance of a competent Yoga teacher. |
| Indra, wind, earth, and it is food. It is the luminous god. It | | | | For physical health, Pranayama is the most important |
| is being and non-being. It is immortality." To go a bit | | | | of Hatha Yoga's many methods. |