22 SCIENCE OF BREATH. 



facts are considered, the importance of the absorption ot 

 Prana must be evident to all, and the Science of Breath 

 assumes an importance even greater than that accorded 

 it by Western science. 



The Yogi teachings go further than does Western 

 science, in one important feature of the Nervous System. 

 We allude to what Western science terms the "Solar 

 Plexus," and which it considers as merely one of a series 

 of certain matte'd nets of sympathetic nerves with their 

 ganglia found in various parts of the body. Yogi science 

 teaches that this Solar Plexus is really a most important 

 part of the Nervous System, and that it is a form of brain, 

 playing one of the principal parts in the human economy. 

 Western science seems to be moving gradually towards a 

 recognition of this fact which has been known to the Yogis 

 of the East for centuries, and some recent Western writ- 

 ers have termed the Solar Plexus the "Abdominal Brain." 

 The Solar Plexus is situated in the Epigastric region, just 

 back of the "pit of the stomach" on either side of the 

 spinal column. It is composed of white and gray brain 

 matter, similar to that composing the other brains of man. 

 It has control of the main internal organs of man, and 

 plays a much more important part than is generally rec- 

 ognized. We will not go into the Yogi theory regarding 

 the Solar Plexus, further than to say that they know it as 

 the great central store-house of Prana. Men have been 

 known to be instantly killed by a severe blow over the 

 Solar Plexus, and prize fighters recognize its vulnerability 

 and frequently temporarily paralyze their opponents by a 

 blow over this region. 



The name "Solar" is well bestowed' on this "brain," 

 as it radiates strength and energy to all parts of the body, 

 even the upper brains depending largely upon it as a store- 

 house of Prana. Sooner or later Western science will fully 

 recognize the real function of the Solar Plexus, and will 

 accord to it a far more important place then it now occu- 

 pies in their text-books and teachings. 



