Sri Ramana Maharshi
Hatha yogic practices are said to banish diseases effectively and are therefore advocated as necessary preliminaries to jnana yoga.
Let those who advocate them use them. It has not been the experience here. All diseases would be effectively annihilated by continuous Self-enquiry.
What about pranayama?
What about it? While I do not speak about it in terms of the well known phraseology of prakam, rechakam and kumbhakam and of their matras (inhalation, exhalation and retention of breath in units of time) I have said that it can be used. Mind and life-breath spring from the same source; if you stop the course of one, you have automatically stopped the course of the others. Control of mind is easier than control of breath. The latter resembles the forcible milking of a cow and the former the cajoling of the cow by a feed of grass and caressing it by gently patting its back.
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