Prana: The force of life

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Yogi Ashwini [1]

To understand nature one does not have to look around; one just has to look within because a human being is a microscopic representation of the whole universe. “Aham Brahmasmi”, or my swaroop is the swaroop of the universe is not a cliché. It has a very deep and subtle meaning.

Creation happened in this world at the will of Lord Brahma. Therefore, all that exists is Brahma. It was the job of Brahma to create a complete universe, be it a thought or action, all deeds, all emotions, every perceivable and non-perceivable object, in fact everything. Man can create nothing; like energy cannot be created or destroyed, nothing can be created or destroyed. There is nothing like a thought or imagination or creation at the physical level. Everything already exists, even thoughts that we generate. Thoughts are not generated by our brain, they are always there in some other dimension, we only connect to them as per our active chakras at various points in time.
This universe contains every perceivable, imaginable object, thought and sound. There are things we’ve never heard of, seen, imagined or dreamt about. Some years ago there existed things — animate and inanimate — that are extinct now. There are things yet to be discovered. There are innumerable things known and unknown, of the past, present and future. All these things still exist but lie in different dimensions. Just like the different dimensions a human being exists in, there are dimensions of time. What an ordinary human being sees and experiences are things at the physical level. His knowledge is limited to the present. An evolved being has the knowledge of the whole universe, of every dimension. He exists everywhere and knows the whole creation because he knows the truth. Such a being is called paramhans or an avdhoot. These beings are beyond the scope of time and space. They know that there is only one truth that pervades the whole universe, only one force that runs the whole Creation.
The whole Creation is made up of only one constitutive principle though in different compositions. The force that pervades is prana. Prana is “the force” in the universe, there is nothing in this universe which is devoid of prana.
Prana combines with the five elements (fire, air, water, ether and earth) to give form to the whole Creation. Whatever has been, whatever exists and whatever lies in the future dimensions of the physical world is nothing but these five elements with different pranic frequencies. It is the force that creates in the physical, the force that maintains, the force that is constantly making things move from one dimension to another — from past to present and to future. We understand this process in physical terms as ageing or passage of time, and it is this force that finally transforms an object from one state to another, just by changing the frequencies at which it vibrates.
The same five elements with prana vibrate at a particular frequency when a baby is born. When the frequencies change compositions, the baby starts ageing and growing. When prana vibrates at a grosser frequency, it makes a body ail, and when it vibrates at a subtler frequency, it makes a yogi. Vibrating at an altogether different level is a corpse, going through the process of transformation. Ashes the next form it assumes — a form which can be called absolute shoonya. With elements, it is constantly changing frequencies. In all animate objects, pranic frequencies are constantly changing. Vibrations are constant in inanimate things.
Objects differ from one another — plants, animals and a piece of wood or a stone. Anything in existence — be it a sound, a colour, or a thought — are different because of the unique frequencies of pranic energy that vibrates in them. This is why an idol of a deity or a Shivaling is different from an ordinary stone. The Shivaling is powerful because of the pranic energy vibrating in it.
Prana is the energy we breathe, it is the energy we see, think, feel, hear, imagine and perceive in different forms. Prana is everything. It is this entire Creation.

— Yogi Ashwini is an authority on yoga, tantra and the Vedic sciences. He is the guiding light of Dhyan Foundation. He has recently written a book, Sanatan Kriya: 51 Miracles... And a Haunting.
Contact him at dhyan@dhyanfoundation.com [2]