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pertinent matters.
9. When you have progressed up to the point that a saucer filled to the
brim with water and poised upon the head does not spill one drop during a
whole hour, and when you can no longer perceive the slightest tremor in any
muscle; when, in short, you are perfectly steady and easy, you will be
admitted for examination; and, should you pass, you will be instructed in
more complex and difficult practices.


IV

Pranayama --- Regularisation of the Breathing

1. At rest in one of your positions, close the right nostril with the
thumb of the right hand and breathe out slowly and completely
through the left nostril, while your watch marks 20 seconds. Breathe in
through the same nostril for 10 seconds. Changing hands, repeat with the
other nostril. Let this be continuous for one hour.
2. When this is quite easy to you, increase the periods to 30 and 15
seconds.
3. When this is quite easy to you, but not before, breathe out for 15
seconds, in for 15 seconds, and hold the breath for 15 seconds.
4. When you can do this with perfect ease and comfort for a whole hour,
practice breathing out for 40 and for 20 seconds.
5. This being attained, practice breathing out for 20, in for 10, holding
the breath for 30 seconds.
When this has become perfectly easy to you, you may be admitted for
examination, and should you pass, you will be instructed in more complex and
difficult practices.
6. You will find that the presence of food in the stomach, even in small
quantities, makes the practices very difficult.
7. Be very careful never to overstrain your powers; especially never get
so short of breath that you are compelled to breathe out jerkily or rapidly.
8. Strive after depth, fullness, and regularity of breathing.
9. Various remarkable phenomena will very probably occur during these
practices. They must be carefully analysed and recorded.



V

Dharana --- Control of Thought.

1. Constrain the mind to concentrate itself upon a single simple object
imagined.
The five tatwas are useful for this purpose; they are: a black oval; a
blue disk; a silver crescent; a yellow square; a red triangle.
2. Proceed to combinations of simple objects; e.g. a black oval within a
yellow square, and so on.
3. Proceed to simple moving objects, such as a pendulum swinging, a wheel