"The word " prana " is perhaps as old as the word "yoga" itself, but the elaborate technique concerning its control, which … take place as a result of its intense and prolonged practice, have been acknowledged at several places in the yoga texts. … to mean two different things, namely : (i) the life force or the principle of life and, (ii) the air (vayu) which flows in the body."
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Ramana Maharshi in: Mountain Path, Volume 4, Sri Ramanasramam., 1967, p. 208.
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