अपाने जुह्वति प्राणं प्राणेऽपानं तथापरे | प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणाः ||४-२९||
apāne juhvati prāṇaṃ prāṇe.apānaṃ tathāpare . prāṇāpānagatī ruddhvā prāṇāyāmaparāyaṇāḥ ||4-29||
- apāne
- in the air which acts downward
- juhvati
- offer
- prāṇam
- the air which acts outward
- prāṇe
- in the air going outward
- apānam
- the air going downward
- tathā
- as also
- apare
- others
- prāṇa
- of the air going outward
- apāna
- and the air going downward
- gatī
- the movement
- ruddhvā
- checking
- prāṇa-āyāma
- trance induced by stopping all breathing
- parāyaṇāḥ
- so inclined
Still others, who are inclined to the process of breath restraint to remain in trance, practice by offering the movement of the outgoing breath into the incoming, and the incoming breath into the outgoing, and thus at last remain in trance, stopping all breathing. Others, curtailing the eating process, offer the outgoing breath into itself as a sacrifice.