SYNONYMS

apane–air which acts downward; juhvati–offers; pranam–air which acts outward; prane–in the air going outward; apanam–air going downward; tatha–as also; apare–others; prana–air going outward; apana–air going downward; gati–movement; ruddhva–checking; prana-ayama–trance induced by stopping all breathing; parayanah–so inclined; apare–others; niyata–controlled; aharah–eating; pranan–outgoing air; pranesu–in the outgoing air; juhvati–sacrifices.

TRANSLATION

And there are even others who are inclined to the process of breath restraint to remain in trance, and they practice stopping the movement of the outgoing breath into the incoming, and incoming breath into the outgoing, and thus at last remain in trance, stopping all breathing. Some of them, curtailing the eating process, offer the outgoing breath into itself, as a sacrifice.