Word meanings
- apāne
- the incoming breath
- juhvati
- offer
- prāṇam
- the outgoing breath
- prāṇe
- in the outgoing breath
- apānam
- incoming breath
- tathā
- also
- apare
- others
- prāṇa
- of the outgoing breath
- apāna
- and the incoming breath
- gatī
- movement
- ruddhvā
- blocking
- prāṇa-āyāma
- control of breath
- parāyaṇāḥ
- wholly devoted apare—others
- niyata
- having controlled
- āhārāḥ
- food intake
- prāṇān
- life-breaths
- prāṇeṣu
- life-energy
- juhvati
- sacrifice
- sarve
- all
- api
- also
- ete
- these
- yajña-vidaḥ
- knowers of sacrifices
- yajña-kṣapita
- being cleansed by performances of sacrifices
- kalmaṣāḥ
- of impurities
Translations
Others offer as sacrifice the outgoing breath into the incoming, and the incoming into the outgoing, restraining the flow of the outgoing and the incoming breaths, solely absorbed in the restraint of the breath.
There are some who practice controlling the vital energy and governing the subtle forces of prana and apana, thereby sacrificing their prana to apana, or their apana to prana.
Constantly practicing control of the vital forces by stopping the movements of the outgoing and incoming breaths, some offer as a sacrifice the outgoing breath into the incoming breath; while still others, the incoming breath into the outgoing breath.
।।4.29 -- 4.30।। दूसरे कितने ही प्राणायामके परायण हुए योगीलोग अपानमें प्राणका पूरक करके, प्राण और अपानकी गति रोककर फिर प्राणमें अपानका हवन करते हैं; तथा अन्य कितने ही नियमित आहार करनेवाले प्राणोंका प्राणोंमें हवन किया करते हैं। ये सभी साधक यज्ञोंद्वारा पापोंका नाश करनेवाले और यज्ञोंको जाननेवाले हैं।Commentary
Some Yogis practise Puraka (inhalation), some Yogis practise Rechaka (exhalation)?, and some Yogis practise Kumbhaka (retention of breath). The five sub-Pranas and the other Pranas are merged in the chief Prana (Mukhya-Prana) by the practice of Pranayama. When the Prana is controlled, the mind also stops its wanderings and becomes steady the senses are also thinned out and merged in the Prana. It is through the vibration of Prana that the activities of the mind and the senses are kept up.
If the Prana is controlled, the mind, the intellect and the senses cease to function.