tailieunhanh - THE HINDU-YOGI

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 body becomes ossified, or else holds his arm up in the air until it. | 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 body becomes ossified or else holds his arm up in the air until it becomes stiff and withered and forever after remains in that position or perhaps clenches his fist and holds it tight until his fingernails grow through the palms of his hands. That these people exist is true but their claim to the title Yogi seems as absurd to the true Yogi as does the claim to the title Doctor on the part of the man who pares one s corns seem to the eminent surgeon or as does the title of Professor as assumed by the street corner vendor of worm medicine seem to the President of Harvard or Yale. There have been for ages past in India and other Oriental countries men who devoted their time and attention to the .