Sanskrit · Devanagari
अपाने जुह्वति प्राणं प्राणेऽपानं तथापरे। प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणाः ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
apāne juhvati prāṇaṃ prāṇe.apānaṃ tathāpare prāṇāpānagatī ruddhvā prāṇāyāmaparāyaṇāḥ
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Some offer up the upward life-breath into the downward life-breath and the downward life-breath into the upper life-breath and stopping up the motions of the upward and downward life-breaths devote themselves to the restraint of the life-breaths.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।4.29।। अपाने अपानवृत्तौ जुह्वति प्रक्षिपन्ति प्राणं प्राणवृत्तिम् पूरकाख्यं प्राणायामं कुर्वन्तीत्यर्थः। प्राणे अपानं तथा अपरे जुह्वति रेचकाख्यं च प्राणायामं कुर्वन्तीत्येतत्। प्राणापानगती मुखनासिकाभ्यां वायोः निर्गमनं प्राणस्य गतिः तद्विपर्ययेण अधोगमनम् अपानस्य गतिः ते प्राणापानगती एते रुद्ध्वा निरुध्य प्राणायामपरायणाः प्राणायामतत्पराः कुम्भकाख्यं प्राणायामं कुर्वन्तीत्यर्थः।।किञ्च
5a50cd84a733…Rāmānuja
4.29 - 4.30 Other Karma Yogins are devoted to the practice of breath control. They are of three types because of the differences in inhalation, exhalation and stoppage of breath. Puraka (inhalation) is that in which the inward breath is sacrificed in the outward breath. Recaka (exhalation) is that when the outward breath is sacrificed in the inward breath. Kumbhaka (stoppage of breath) is that when the flow of both inward and outward breaths is stopped. The clause, restricting of diet, applies to all the three types of persons devoted to the control of breath. All these, according to their liking and capacity are engaged in performing the various kinds of Karma Yoga beginning from the sacrifice of material objects to the control of breath. They know and are devoted to sacrifices comprising obligatory and occasional rituals preceded by the performance of 'the great sacrifices' (Panca-Maha-Yajna), as alluded to in 'Creating men along with the sacrifices' (3.10). Because of this only, their sins are done away with. Those who are engaged in Karma Yoga by sustaining their bodies only by the ambrosia of sacrificial remains will go to the eternal Brahman. 'Go to Brahman' here means realise the self which has Brahman for Its soul.
06d7efd897a2…Swami Sivananda
4.29 अपाने in the outgoing breath? जुह्वति sacrifice? प्राणम् incoming breath? प्राणे in the incoming breath? अपानम् outgoing breath? तथा thus? अपरे others? प्राणापानगती courses of the outgoing and incoming breaths? रुद्ध्वा restraining? प्राणायामपरायणाः solely absorbed in the restraint of breath.Commentary Some Yogis practise Puraka (inhalation)? some Yogis practise Rechaka (exhalation)?,and some Yogis practise Kumbhaka (retention of breath).The five subPranas and the other Pranas are merged in the chief Prana (MukhyaPrana) 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.
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