The Rewards of Pranayama

Sri Chinmoy: One thing I would like to tell you here, I forgot to tell. Please, this is personal. Mr. Jacko, I have no idea in this life if he is practising pranayama or not – I think he himself told that he was doing asanas and all this – but in his just past incarnation, he has done this pranayama thousands and thousands of times. Even in this life, his face, I can see it like an open book. During my talk, I wanted to tell that he has done it thousands of times. And, in this life, he is taking physical postures and asanas. Mr. Jacko, in your past life, you did it, and I hope you will do it again successfully and get all the benefit from pranayama. Even in your eyes, here, to me it is an open book that you did it. Others also, yes, some of them have tried in their past incarnations, but nobody seriously and sincerely has done this pranayama as you have done.

Mr. Jacko: I was going to say that the alternate breathing you were speaking of especially, I've been doing it for a long time and it really is amazingly effective. For example, when a person has a cold coming on, you can drive a cold out of your system.

Sri Chinmoy: Absolutely.

Mr. Jacko: It's amazing that medical people don't know about this. You actually can.

Sri Chinmoy: Not only cold — headache, stomach upset, anything.

Mr. Jacko: Nervousness.

Sri Chinmoy: Nervousness. You do it and you will see. You are afraid of speaking to someone, that what will he say. Just two or three minutes you practise this and you go and face him, like a hero. There are many, I know so many incidents. Boss in India, the master — the servant is afraid of speaking to his master. Then that particular servant he will breathe in this alternate breathing three or four times and he will go to his master. He will say the same thing, which he was scared of telling. And the master will see in him a new face, a new life. And master forgives.