Sadhguru: The word ‘Prana,’ there is no equivalent word in English but we can say it’s a vital energy.
That which we call as the life energy is ‘Prana.’
Prana has ten different manifestations in the body.
But for the sake of understanding, we’ll bring it down to five.
These five are referred to as five ‘Vayus’ or ‘Pancha vayus.’
This is Prana vayu, Samana vayu, Udana vayu, Apana and Vyana.
They are in charge of different dimensions of what happens in this human mechanism.
This’s an endless subject if I speak like this. I’m I am just trying to abridge it in a sensible manner (Laughs).
Taking charge of this… ‘Yama’ means to control or to take charge, ‘Pranayam’ means a method with which
you want to take charge of these Pancha vayus.
Sadhguru: Because how your body functions, how your mind functions, how the whole physiological
framework… this human mechanism, how it functions, is determined by this energy.
This is an energy… it is an intelligent energy, in the sense, it carries a certain amount of memory.
The karmic memory of the individual person is imprinted on this energy.
So, in each person the prana functions in a different manner.
It is unique to each individual. It is not like… It is… like electricity. Electricity is not smart.
It can light up the… ba… you know, the light bulb, it can run the camera, it can…
you know, run the air-conditioning, it can do million things, but not because of its intelligence.
It does the same thing always. Because of a particular device, a certain thing happens.
But now I am talking about – this will happen in future – that you may have smart electricity,
it is not far away. In the next fifty years, you may have smart energy that the energy behaves in a particular
way. You can make it behave in a certain way because you can imprint certain memory upon it.
Sadhguru: So, this is an intelligent energy, where a certain amount of imprint is there.
Because of that, it functions in a specific manner in an individual person.
That is going into an extremely refined form of… pranayam, where we particularly
design something for an individual person because he is in a certain way.
For that, to come to that level, it will need a general developed pranayam, where it takes
care of these five vayus.
If one has a certain mastery over these five vayus, there is no such thing as physical ailment or…
Particularly, psychological ailment is out of question.
Sadhguru: If somebody takes charge of their prana, whatever may be the external atmosphere,
whatever influences in terms of reverberations, waves, emotions, other kinds of pressures,
doesn’t matter what – psychological balance is one hundred percent guaranteed for a person,
who takes charge of his prana, always.
When I say balance, maybe most of you won’t be medically considered imbalanced.
But a whole lot of people are psychologically imbalanced. Suppose you have a hand.
Suppose this hand simply pops up right now (Gestures) (Laughter), it pokes into your eyes
and it scratches you and beats you. If your hand starts doing this, there is a sickness, isn't it?
At least your hand is sick (Few laugh). Let… Let me not blame the whole person,
at least your hand is sick for sure, isn't it? Well, this is what most people’s minds are doing.
Every day, it scratches you from inside, makes you cry, make you bawl, make you worry.
In so many varieties of suffering, it pokes your eyeballs out many times (Few laugh).
Is it not doing? Participants: Yes Sadhguru: It is sick.
Maybe in a socially accepted manner, but it is sick.
So one who takes charge of his prana can be one hundred percent assured, his psychological balance is
there, you cannot shake it.
Physiological balance also is there but physiological hap… ailments may happen due to various reasons.
One thing is, there are infections and other, you know, organisms, who want to live (Few laugh).
Yes, they want to live (Few laugh).
Another thing is, variety of chemicals and poisons and stuff we may swallow, knowingly, unknowingly, and it
and it can cause things. So physiological ailment is, I would say, ninety percent guaranteed that it won’t
happen. But psychological well-being is one hundred percent guaranteed.
If you’re psychologically in an extremely good place, ten percent of physiological problems
are not even a problem, you know. It’s not even a problem.
Most of the time, what little things that may happen to the body, that’s not the thing.
What reaction that happens in your mind is the big thing, isn't it? Yes or no?
Participants: Yes Sadhguru: So, pranayam means you want to take
charge of the vital forces. As I said, they have an intelligence of their own, each one of them.
Either during birth, after conception, how they enter the newborn and how they leave
the dead – in this, it clearly displays, it has an intelligence of its own.
One may not notice this unless they become very conscious about these things.
It's a world by itself, if you ask me. It takes a certain level of attention.
The word attention may not go deep enough.
I am using the word attention because the other words are horribly corrupted.
Awareness and this and that are badly, badly corrupted, so I am using the word attention.
But the word attention is not suggesting what is needed.
Just mental alertness is not enough. It has to become really attentive.
If you make yourself like that, you know how these five are functioning.