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What is the Purpose of Life ? Our ancestors have started their ways of realization in the forests, away from the life of action, forsaking all ties of worldly connection with their fellow beings and others. We, under the Sahaj Marg System, try to create such an atmosphere around us, in our homes, so that they serve the purpose of forests. What we do is to attach ourselves more to God, and the result is that non-attachment follows automatically as a corollary.  We thus come to the state of vairagya naturally without any effort on our part. There should be a goal before us, and we should try to attain it most naturally. There are many methods of realization, and each one claims its efficacy as the best.  But it is our duty, before entering into any system, to consider which is the best system, and it depends upon one’s own judgment and the Grace of God to get a real method to solve the mystery of one’s life. It is an admitted fact that the thought force of man is nearer to God. Our prese

Pranayama is not, as many think, something about breath; breath indeed has very little to do with it, if anything. Pranayama really means controlling the motion of the lungs, and this motion is associated with the breath. Not that breath is producing it; on the contrary, it is producing breath. This motion draws in the air by pump action. The prana is moving the lungs, the movement of the lungs draws in the air. So Pranayama is not breathing, but controlling that muscular power that moves the lungs. That muscular power that goes out through the nerves to the muscles and from them to the lungs, making them move in a certain manner is the Prana, which we have to control in the practice of Pranayama. Breathing is only one of the many exercises through which we get to the real Pranayama. Pranayama means the control of Prana. Just as Akasha is the infinite, omnipresent material of this universe, so is this Prana the infinite, omnipresent manifesting power of this universe. It is