The Zodiac and Pra-n.a-ya-ma 73Taurus in a yogi and Gemini in others. The poise of the
breath is called sama-na (Sama-na: measure included). This
exists below the ribs, above the navel and about the
diaphragm in the physical body. The seal of the sign Leo
compares well with the ‘cave’ about the diaphragm. The
sounds ‘So’ and ‘Ham’ altered slightly give simha (Lion).
The location is also cited as the throne or the ‘seat-of-lion’
(Simha-sana). Upon this, the perfect man (Aquarius) sits in
reflection. Man, the higher, throws his outline or image
upon space ether (Gemini). This image is taken in by
breath (air) and then by the respiratory and decarbonising
process (fire) into the ebb and tide of the fire-water (the
ocean of breath or Cancer) upon which the various seals
(Mudra-s) of man are received (Samudra). Then he reflects
as consciousness or the seat of vital consciousness
(Pra-n.amaya) at the diaphragm, only as a location in the
form of personality. This man comes down periodically
into matter at every breath to elevate his fellow-egos
existing in the form of atoms of the lower kingdom as the
tissues of his vehicles. This process of Pra-n.a-ya-ma, when
properly understood with the aid of the intuition of the
reader and the grace of his guru, will eliminate the signs
of Libra and Gemini in him. Then the perfect man of
Aquarius raised by Pra-n.a-ya-ma exists in the divine life. This
forms an example of the process of eliminating the effects
of some signs through Pra-n.a-ya-ma.