Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Wisdom with reference to the breath - prana



 ॐ गं गणपतये नमः
There is air all around this body
There is air inside this body.
Like a fish lives in water
This body lives in air....through breathing.
With every inhalation, the breath strengthens every cell in the body
With every exhalation every cell in the body relaxes.
This is an ongoing divine process ...let us be aware of it ...
I am grateful to Ishvara, for the breath - without breath, the body perishes.

This breath is a form of prana, the life-force that is vibrating in every cell of the body - enlivening every cell.

I am conscious of breath.

I am a simple conscious being - illumining the breathing process, the prana.

I know it's presence - I experience it's presence, I observe it's presence....
I am indeed different from what I know and experience.
I am a simple conscious being - aware of prana, independent of prana
Prana is not seperate from me. Indeed, I-consciousness, as the Cosmic Being manifests it.

What can I give to prana, the life-force coursing through this body, enlivening all the physiological functions of the body?

My grateful keen awareness of it's presence during pranayama and through the day. And plenty of water.

I honour the prana in this body.
It is the same prana in all the beings, coursing through them, enlivening all their physiological functions - from the tiniest unicellular being to the largest living being in the entire universe.
I honour the prana in all beings.

I am a simple conscious being, aware of prana - independent of prana - illumining and enlivening prana.
Prana is not seperate from me. Indeed, I ss cosmic consciousness, manifests it.

I take a deep breath, hold it and release it slowly.
I take sips of breath savouring each sip, deeply aware of the breath at the nostrils.

I assimilate deeply that
Consciousness that shines here as self-evident, self-revealing I,  is independent of prana.
Consciousness that shines here as self-evident, self-revealing I, is changeless and ever-present. Prana is continually changing.
While consciousness I am the drshta, the Seer, prana is ever the seen, an object of my knowing, dependent on consciousness for manifesting it.

I take a deep breath, hold it and release it slowly.
I take sips of breath savouring each sip, deeply aware of the breath at the nostrils.
I relax
I let go my notions about myself
I repose in my Self

Om Tat Sat