When and How Did Pranayama Originate?
Of course, any “new ideas” I may have stumbled across are probably new only to me. Since pranayama has been around for many centuries, there’s a good chance that somebody somewhere thought of each one of them long before I did. In fact some scholars trace pranayama’s origins back thirty-five hundred years (and possibly more) to the Vedic sacrifice. I wish we had the time and space to consider this fascinating ritual in detail, but alas, we don’t. Mainstream Western scholars tell us these sacrifices, usually sponsored by powerful and wealthy royals, were originally attempts to symbolically “feed” and thus petition the favor of the gods, through their go-betweens, for some personal gain—sons and cattle (the Vedic equivalent of modern-day real estate holdings in California) being high on the list. But a number of Indian pundits and their Western supporters vigorously maintain that there was much more to the ancient sacrifice than meets the eye. They insist the outward motions and words we
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