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Power of Prana



To understand nature, one just needs to look within because a human being is a microcosm of the universe. Creation comprises a single combination in different compositions. The force that pervades the universe is prana and nothing exists without it.

Prana combines with the five elements (fire, air, water, ether, and earth) to give Creation form. Whatever has been, exists, and lies in future dimensions of the physical world is nothing else but these elements with different pranic frequencies. It is the force that creates, maintains and constantly makes things move from one dimension to another. We understand this process as ageing but it is the one that finally transforms an object from one to another, just by changing the frequencies at which it vibrates.

As the composition of a newborn changes, prana vibrates at different frequencies as it grows and ages. In an ailing body, the frequencies are grosser. Prana that vibrates at a subtler frequency belongs to a yogi. Vibrating at an altogether different level is a corpse going through the process of transformation. The next form its previous owner assumes is yet another composition of prana—a form which is nothing; absolute shoonya. In all animate objects, pranic frequencies are constantly changing but are constant in inanimate things.

Different objects are different from one another, as are sounds, colours and thoughts because of their unique frequencies. This is why an idol or a Shivling is different from an ordinary stone because as a different form, it is powerful due to its pranic vibrations.

Prana vibrates in innumerable forms in innumerable dimensions. Colours exist in many shades and combinations—pleasant, soothing; representing love, divinity, power or anger. Different colours have different effects on the physical. It is the same with sounds. Some are uplifting, some cause fear or depression and some take you to silence. Each sound is distinct because its prana is vibrating at different levels.

Prana is the energy we breathe, see, think, feel, hear, imagine and perceive in different forms. It is the gyan we receive. At the physical level, it is the energy that gets translated through various layers (koshas) and manifests as the physical after passing from the various koshas to energy centres present in each one. Each energy level or frequency is translated by the centre it is meant to receive, interpret and translate further for it to be a manifestation in the physical realm. These energy centres are called chakras. Prana of a certain level, dimension, and frequency can be perceived by its specific chakra only. Each chakra is programmed to receive energies relevant to its characteristic only, which it sends to the Ajya, the master chakra, which further processes it into a language which the brain understands.

Life, as we understand it, is only the physical translation of this energy in various layers in different dimensions. The physical is the smallest and the last part of that which lies beyond human perception.

(Yogi Ashwini is the spiritual head of Dhyan Ashram. Email: dhyan@dhyanfoundation.com)

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