Manifestations of Prana 141 



Tattvas during the flow of each current of Prana. 



Now, if you remember that five Charts are 

 about equal to two hours you will understand that 

 by the Shivdgama reckoning we are confronted 

 i with the puzzling statement that there is only one 

 complete change of the Tattvas during the flow 

 of the two currents, that is during a positive period 

 when the breath is in the right lung and the cur- 

 rents are flowing from the northern to the south- 

 ern center; and a negative one when the breath is 

 in the left lung and the direction is reversed, the 

 Prana flowing from the heart, or southern center, 

 northward on the left side. Yet the statement is 

 also made in the Shivagama that " In the left as 

 well as in the right there is the five-fold rise " [of 

 the Tattvas]. That the Tattvic changes in the 

 world current are " Ghari by Ghari " is my con- 

 viction. 



With regard to the two currents of Prdna, it is 

 significant that the period of their flow exactly 

 corresponds with a twelfth of the moon's eccentric 

 diurnal orbit, during which period there is a 

 marked change in her elongation, or angular dis- 

 tance from the sun, and this change in the wave 

 vibrations is reflected in the breath. The Tan- 

 trists believed the lunar current to be most pow- 

 erful during the rise of Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, 

 Scorpio, Capricornus, and Pisces; and the solar 



