Sri Iyengar, impelled by nature and driven by circumstances, learnt Yoga the hard way at the feet of his guru Sri Krishnamacharya. Sri Iyengar has been himself a teacher of Yoga, and a good task-master at that, all the time. What he speaks and writes about Yoga is like an abundant overspill from all his rich and meaningful personal experiences. The demonstration lecture on ãsanas that he gave in Bombay last December on the occasion of his sixty-first birthday, with his daughter Geeta and son Prashanta, was a marvellous revelation of his control over every nerve and muscle of his supple body. Hundreds of his disciples from abroad witnessed the performance and wondered how he retained such plasticity arid vigour at that age. To him it was child’s play, a mere routine. One of his close disciples remarked that he has trained his body ‘to twist, to twine, to turn, to bend, to wriggle, to pull, to flex’ and much besides!
It is but logical that one should expect from Sri Iyengar an equally exhaustive and instructive book on Pranayama, which is the next step in Yoga, namely, the science and art of breath-control. Though there are several yogas practised, such as hatha-yoga, raa-yoga, jnana-yoga, kundalini-yoga, mantra-yoga, laya-yoga and so on, basically and in essence Yoga is a scientific and systematic discipline for a successful organisation of all the energies and faculties of the integral human being with a view to attaining the highest ecstatic communion with the cosmic reality or God. Breath-control is helpful in every one of the yogas mentioned above. All the texts on Yoga as well as the experience of ages testify to the fact that breath- control is an important factor in the control of the mind as well. However, breath-control, that is pranayama, is not merely deep-breathing of breathing exercises, normally a part of physical culture. It is something far more, involving exercises which affect not only the physical, physiological and neural energies but also the psychological and cerebral activities, such as memory-training and creativity. Sri Aurobindo, the sage and seer of Pondicherry, has recorded that after practising pranayama he could compose and retain in his memory about two hundred lines of poetry, while earlier he could not handle even a dozen.
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It is but logical that one should expect from Sri Iyengar an equally exhaustive and instructive book on Pranayama, which is the next step in Yoga, namely, the science and art of breath-control. Though there are several yogas practised, such as hatha-yoga, raa-yoga, jnana-yoga, kundalini-yoga, mantra-yoga, laya-yoga and so on, basically and in essence Yoga is a scientific and systematic discipline for a successful organisation of all the energies and faculties of the integral human being with a view to attaining the highest ecstatic communion with the cosmic reality or God. Breath-control is helpful in every one of the yogas mentioned above. All the texts on Yoga as well as the experience of ages testify to the fact that breath- control is an important factor in the control of the mind as well. However, breath-control, that is pranayama, is not merely deep-breathing of breathing exercises, normally a part of physical culture. It is something far more, involving exercises which affect not only the physical, physiological and neural energies but also the psychological and cerebral activities, such as memory-training and creativity. Sri Aurobindo, the sage and seer of Pondicherry, has recorded that after practising pranayama he could compose and retain in his memory about two hundred lines of poetry, while earlier he could not handle even a dozen.
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