More about Prana

Prana is Very Elevated

Prana is something very elevated and we can’t readily perceive it as it is, that is how it is within itself with our five senses. Though what we can perceive with our five senses is the prana that things have or radiate. For example, in the case of a rose, the smell of the rose and its beauty and the life that radiates from it are an expression of the prana contained in the rose. In short what we really perceive with our five senses is the prana that things have, so when it comes to perceiving prana with our five senses we can only perceive prana as it is in things that have or had life, that is in other human beings, plants, animals, rocks, food etc.

Prana can not be Perceived

As we have mentioned earlier, prana by itself can not be perceived as a solid physical substance, i.e. something that can be can be weighed, photographed or measured. All that we can do is to perceive prana when it undergoes certain modifications and subdivides itself. For example, when prana subdivides itself we can perceive and receive prana in a piece of bread, in grapes and in what we breathe.

Modified

Please note, that when prana is modified it becomes a very important substance which is called Akash or Akasa and later when Akash is modified it becomes Ether, and when the vibrations of ether called tattwas condense we have the four physical elements of physical nature.

Different Sources

Prana is also light, colour, heat and as Master Samael said, it is Universal Magnetism. The beauty and richness of a flower is due to prana and the beauty that a human being has is also due to prana. Prana also allows the human being to perceive images, it is the magical component or force that forms the images on our retina so that we can see.

There is an intense source of Prana in the sun and the sun radiates it out to all the planets in the solar system. It is the prana from the sun that really gives the abundance and richness of life that we can observe in all the four kingdoms of nature in a planet, especially our planet earth.

There is of course prana in the sexual energy and when we sublimate it a lot of prana is conserved and converted into ojas which is a subtler form of energy. This energy accumulates in the brain and is used for creative and spiritual development.

We also receive prana from the environment (a forest is rich in prana), from food, from water, from the sun and from the air. The prana that we received is stored in our chakras and later released by our chakras into the body. The yogis say that the places on the Earth that are richest in prana are locations high up in the mountains.

There is not much prana in the cities as there is an imbalance of electricity and magnetism, there is much more magnetism there in the cities than there is electricity, it is has been said that the noise and constant activity dissipates the electricity. In the country there is a better balance of magnetism and electricity and so there is more prana there.

Kundalini

Kundalini is also a variant of cosmic prana. Some yogis even say that kundalini is cosmic prana and they go on to say “The entire experience from creation to dissolution is embedded inside the folds of the kundalini. Cosmic prana and kundalini are synonymous terms. Awakening the kundalini one unites with the cosmic prana.”.

Feeds Our Essence

Prana is also something that feeds the essence. It is a food for the essence and it is something that crystallises in the essence though which we can use to fabricate soul.

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