Swami Satyananda~ 智語錄 ::: 幾句話就清處地告訴我們 ~思緒, 精氣, 與 靈魂 之間奧妙的關係. 掌控它, 你才真地是自己的主人.  

Mind, prana and self

The body is a composition of prana and mind.

Pranas are responsible for action and motion in life.

The mind is responsible for thinking and feeling.

Together, mind and prana fill this living structure, penetrating it through and through.

Mind and prana are the two great forces in our physical system, and if they lose their balance, a corresponding imbalance is created in our mental and physical behavior.

The science of hatha yoga is based on these two forces. Pranas can be balanced by the practice of asanas and pranayamas. The mental force is balanced by the practice of concentration and meditation.

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Yoga says that there are seventy-two thousand channels or nadis in the body through which the flow of prana and the flow of mind moves.

 Out of these seventy-two thousand of mental and pranic energy,  ten are considered to be major ones. Out of these ten major channels, three are most important, ida, representing mental force, pingala, pranic force and sushumna, spiritual force.

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The individual is a combination of mind, prana and Self.

Certainly there comes a time in life, when you begin to realize that the body is not final.

The mind controls the body;

and the spirit, the atma, the Self controls the mind and body.

When you become the master of the mind, you become the master of the body,

but when you are a slave to the mind then the body is full of disease.

Once you become the master of the self, you become the master of the mind and body.