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Title: The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath

Author: Yogi Ramacharaka

Release Date: September 9, 2004 [EBook #13402]
Last updated: March 2, 2009

Language: English

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THE HINDU-YOGI Science _of_ Breath

A Complete Manual of THE ORIENTAL BREATHING PHILOSOPHY of Physical,
Mental, Psychic and Spiritual Development.

By YOGI RAMACHARAKA

INDEX.

CHAPTER Page

I. Salaam 1

II. "Breath Is Life" 3

III. The Exoteric Theory of Breath 11

IV. The Esoteric Theory of Breath 16

V. The Nervous System 20

VI. Nostril Breathing vs. Mouth Breathing 23

VII. The Four Methods of Respiration 27

VIII. How to Acquire the Yogi Complete Breath 33

IX. Physiological Effect of the Complete Breath 36

X. A Few Bits of Yogi Lore 40

XI. The Seven Yogi Developing Exercises 43

XII. Seven Minor Yogi Exercises 48

XIII. Vibration and Yogi Rhythmic Breathing 51

XIV. Phenomena of Yogi Psychic Breathing 55

XV. More Phenomena of Yogi Psychic Breathing 61

XVI. Yogi Spiritual Breathing 69

CHAPTER I.

SALAAM.

The Western student is apt to be somewhat confused in his ideas
regarding the Yogis and their philosophy and practice. Travelers to
India have written great tales about the hordes of fakirs, mendicants
and mountebanks who infest the great roads of India and the streets of
its cities, and who impudently claim the title "Yogi." The Western
student is scarcely to be blamed for thinking of the typical Yogi as
an emaciated, fanatical, dirty, ignorant Hindu, who either sits in a
fixed posture until his b