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अपाने जुह्वति प्राण प्राणेऽपानं तथाऽपरे। प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणाः।।4.29।।

apāne juhvati prāṇaṁ prāṇe ’pānaṁ tathāpare prāṇāpāna-gatī ruddhvā prāṇāyāma-parāyaṇāḥ apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣhu juhvati sarve ’pyete yajña-vido yajña-kṣhapita-kalmaṣhāḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 4, Verse 29
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
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.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: others practice sacrifice by regulating the breath, controlling the outgoing and incoming breath, describing what we'd now recognize as breathwork as a legitimate spiritual practice in its own right.

In life: something as simple and physical as controlled breathing genuinely changes mental state, this isn't a modern discovery, it's an old, tested practice.

Teaching: when overwhelmed or anxious, try deliberately regulating your breath as an actual practice, not just a cliché piece of advice, it has real, ancient standing behind it.

apānethe incoming breath
juhvatioffer
prāṇamthe outgoing breath
prāṇein the outgoing breath
apānamincoming breath
tathāalso
apareothers
prāṇaof the outgoing breath
apānaand the incoming breath
gatīmovement
ruddhvāblocking
prāṇa-āyāmacontrol of breath
parāyaṇāḥwholly devoted apare - others
niyatahaving controlled
āhārāḥfood intake
prāṇānlife-breaths
prāṇeṣhulife-energy
juhvatisacrifice
sarveall
apialso
etethese
yajña-vidaḥknowers of sacrifices
yajña-kṣhapitabeing cleansed by performances of sacrifices
kalmaṣhāḥof impurities

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
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.