1401 The Law of the Rhythmic Breath 



blooded creatures when cold winds blow and on 

 raw, damp days, is that Tejas is its life element. 

 I have found that the most obstinate nuisance will 

 cease his persecutions on such days if a pitcher of 

 hot water be placed nearby. He will hug it as 

 long as warmth lingers. In the birds of the air 

 Fdyu predominates over Prithivi, while in the 

 quadruped who clings to the earth with four feet 

 this is exactly reversed. 



I have frequently given emphasis to the fact 

 that upon man is placed the responsibility of choos- 

 ing for himself what shall be the dominant Tattvic 

 activities of his being, and that upon his choice 

 depends not alone his own weal and woe but the 

 comfort, happiness, and well-being of all whose 

 lives are connected with him. Therefore, know- 

 ing as you do now the terrestrial influences of the 

 various Tattvas, it must certainly appeal to you 

 as more logical that some of them should have a 

 greater normal flow than others; and this is ex- 

 actly the teaching at the present time of the East 

 Indian Guras. By this method, their order is as 

 given above, but Fayu is said to flow eight min- 

 utes; Tejas, twelve minutes; Prithivi, twenty min- 

 utes; Apas, sixteen minutes; and A kasha, only 

 four. As this totals sixty minutes, the rational 

 conclusion is that the exact period is a fraction less 

 and that there is one complete change of the 



