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purpose the Held-Breath exercises are practiced 

 we are able to feel its subtle activity all over the 

 body, and can concentrate it wherever an exhausted 

 nerve needs renewing energy. It is only in these 

 corrective exercises, or when the need is felt to 

 change the currents, that the nostrils are closed and 

 the breath arbitrarily directed to left or right. 

 When the balance of the alternating current is 

 restored, we leave Nature to take care of their 

 regular alternation. 



Human beings are electric batteries; and when 

 either current of vital force the negative or pos- 

 itive flows too long, the vehicle of life becomes 

 the engine of destruction. That is all; it is just 

 a simple problem of electro-chemical action; and 

 the Tattvic Law is the only thing that explains 

 the mystery by which human life hangs on so 

 slight a thread, and indicates to you the remedy 

 for time of need. The knowledge thus put in 

 your hands is a treasure beyond price. 



In all practice, the promptness of the body's re- 

 sponse to the revivifying influence will be exactly 

 according to the clearness with which you realize 

 the thought and the fixity with which you can hold 

 it. Directed consciously with your soul-force vi- 

 talizing your mental vibrations, the current of 

 Prana increases in strength and electrical power, 

 so that all the atoms are drawn into synchronous 

 action, which means enormously increased power 

 and activity. 



