अपाने जुह्वति प्राणं प्राणेऽपानं तथापरे ।प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणाः ॥
apāne juhvati prāṇaṃ prāṇe 'pānaṃ tathāpare |prāṇāpānagatī ruddhvā prāṇāyāmaparāyaṇāḥ ||
- अपाने · apāne
- into the downward breath
- जुह्वति · juhvati
- they offer
- प्राणम् · prāṇam
- the outgoing breath
- प्राणे · prāṇe
- into the outgoing breath
- अपानम् · apānam
- the downward breath
- तथा · tathā
- so
- अपरे · apare
- others
- प्राणापानगती · prāṇāpānagatī
- the courses of the two breaths
- रुद्ध्वा · ruddhvā
- having stopped
- प्राणायामपरायणाः · prāṇāyāmaparāyaṇāḥ
- devoted to breath-regulation
“Others offer the outgoing breath into the downward breath, and the downward breath into the outgoing — stopping the courses of both, devoted to breath-regulation.”
— Original plain-language translation
Breath itself becomes oblation and fire in prāṇāyāma: inhalation offered into exhalation and back, until both currents still. The practice steadies the mind by harnessing its closest ally, the breath. Physiology turned sacrament.
— Reader's notes (original)