राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा प्रणाली एवं भारतीय मानस (श्री अरविन्द - एकात्म शिक्षा दर्शन)

THE TRAINING OF THE MIND 39
nerve system. The remedy is a simple
one which is now becoming more and
more popular in Europe for different
reasons and objects, the regulation of
the breathing. This process inevit-
ably restores the perfect and unob-
structed activity of the channels and,
if well and thoroughly done, leads to
a high activity of the senses. The
process is called in Yogic discipline,
nadi-suddhi, or nerve-purification.
The obstruction in the channel
may be such as not absolutely to stop
in however small a degree, but to
distort the information. A familiar
instance of this is the effect of fear
or alarm on the sense action. The
startled horse takes the sack on the
road for a dangerous living thing, the
startled man takes a rope for a snake,
a waving curtain for a ghostly form.
All distortions due to actions in the