The Practice of Breath Perception

Methods for Immediate Realization and the Signs of Six Months

Without opening the eyes, I shall first describe the practice original: "sadhanam" which produces immediate conviction.

Sitting in a firm posture original: "vadyapasana," likely a variation of a seated meditative pose, one should not perform Uddiyana a "lock" or internal lift where the abdomen is pulled in and up toward the diaphragm. | 1 |

One should perform Kumbhaka breath retention on the natural breath according to one's strength and effort. One should exhale through the Moon path original: "Chandra-marga," the left nostril and then through the Sun path original: "Surya-marga," the right nostril very slowly. | 10 |

By means of the Moon and the Sun...
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...one should establish it in the sphere of the soul original: "Jiva-mandala". This control of the self was spoken to Rama...

...one should give the life-force to the soul. Through the practice of twenty-one days original: "sapta-dina-traya," literally three sets of seven days... a man flows [lives].

If at the end of ten days, on the eleventh day, the Sun the breath in the right nostril flows continuously, his death is certain; his remaining time is measured in
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months. | 13 |

Likewise, in the flow of the Moon, there is comfort for the devotee. But when the Sun and Moon indeed? [flow irregularly], there is no doubt that death is imminent. For a person whose Sun acts like the Moon, or whose Moon acts like the Sun referring to the reversal of the natural solar/day and lunar/night rhythms, and both flow in this reversed way, his death occurs in six months.

When the Moon flows at night and the Sun flows by day continuously for one full month, the mind of that person... The text cuts off, likely continuing to describe the benefits of this healthy, balanced state as a contrast to the preceding omens of death.