Shloka 38
Adhyaya 39 — Yoga Discipline: Posture, Breath Control, Sense Withdrawal, and Signs of Attainment
व्योमादिपरमाणूंश्च तथात्मानमकल्मषम् ।
इत्थं योगी यताहारः प्राणायामपरायणः ॥
vyomādi-paramāṇūṃś ca tathātmānam akalmaṣam / itthaṃ yogī yatāhāraḥ prāṇāyāma-parāyaṇaḥ //
এইভাবে মিতাহারী ও প্রाणায়াম-পরায়ণ যোগী আকাশের পরমাণুসমূহ এবং অন্যান্য ভূততত্ত্বও ধ্যান করে; তদ্রূপ নির্মল আত্মাকেও চিন্তা করে।
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FAQs
The text links bodily discipline (food regulation) with mental refinement: prāṇāyāma steadies the mind so it can penetrate from gross elements to subtle atoms, culminating in recognition of the Self as inherently pure.
This is yogic-ācāra instruction (a dharma/upadharma passage), not genealogy or cosmic cycles; it functions as practical sādhanā within the Purāṇa’s broader teaching mission.
‘Atoms of space and the rest’ signals progressive subtilization of attention; as vṛttis become subtle through prāṇa-control, awareness can rest in the ‘stainless’ witness beyond elemental composition.