Did you sometime watch the watercourse or sea waves, or how wind swings trees or the grass in the field? Watched rain noise? Behind that as drops of the rain are drummed on leaves of trees and pools? Saw sometime how wind drives dry foliage or heard its noise in branches of huge pines? Heard sometime the rockfall in mountains? Felt under legs the earth shiver at the earthquake, its powerful pushes? If you never before did it, then make. Observe the nature. Behind that as the bug creeps on the ground. Or behind flight of the bird – try to hear noise from her wings. Listen attentively to murmur of the stream. Or touch the stones heated by the sun – feel their heat.
And if you are attentive in the observations, then will find surprising things which weren't noticed earlier. Or knew about it in the childhood, but forgot. You will see that the world around you – live. The nature around you - live. And all to be in the constant movement. This movement also does it alive. Even what, apparently, is at first sight static, actually is in the constant movement. Trees and the grass - grow and die. On their place other grass, new trees grows. The rivers and streamlets change the courses. Even mountains grow or die. The earth constantly changes the relief.
And it is possible to watch the nature infinitely long. And everything because the nature - is harmonious. Eyes are never tired to observe overseas or clouds, trees or flowers. Anybody is irritated ever by noise of wind or noise of the rain, splash of waves. On the contrary, even calms, fills with harmony. Even noise of the thunderstorm, thunder is pleasant for hearing.
And smells of the wood, herbs, wild flowers? They natural are also pleasant to each person.
This harmony, this initial naturalness is inherent in the nature. Unlike what is done by the person.
Everything created by the person in comparison with the nature bears in itself only subjective information. And anyway, but creations of the person, creation of his mind bring disharmony in the nature. If creations of the nature harmoniously fit into the environment, then creations of human mind look against the background of the nature disharmoniously. It partly from the fact that human mind, work of mind is subjective by the nature – the mind perceives the world and beauty only within the perception. And the more the mind perceives the nature, the world as what he can use, the big disharmony it to the world brings. Between the nature and the person there is the conflict.
But person not the tsar of the nature and not her owner. The person only causes himself the activity, but laws of wildlife he can't break. He though put himself above the nature, separated himself from it, but it nevertheless the part it. It part of the living world of the nature. In it there is that to him it isn't subject - it is his life.
The person doesn't know how he is born as he lives and as dies. He studied physiological processes which happen in it, but it only observations. He knows now as it works, but doesn't know why it works. The person doesn't know what his life and all wildlife is based on. On what laws.
Therefore the yoga as science about human nature gives great value to breath.
Breath is the basis of life, its source. The person, when is born, takes the first breath and with arrival of death does the last exhalation. It is what makes the person alive, makes him by the part of the nature. Breath doesn't depend on the person – it leads the parallel life. The person doesn't notice it - so it naturally.
Breath is the same movement of life, as the river or wind. It is in one rhythm with surrounding space, with the environment. But the quality of life is connected with breath. The person can't but breathe, but as he breathes as his breath is ready for the world, depends on it.
Look how the nature is arranged. Observe its processes. The world breathes all the time – and its breath and exhalation are inflows and otliva of the seas, change of day and night, summer and winter, the birth and death. And our breath has the cycles, as nature cycles too. With the breath we are born and with the exhalation we die. Taking the breath, we inhale in ourselves life, and with the exhalation - we exhale from ourselves life. And this process is infinite. So there live trees and stones. So the seas and oceans breathe. So moves around the earth moon – its eternal satellite. So the earth moves around the sun. And the sun around the center of our galaxy. And this magic process is infinite.
And coming to understanding of the breath, we come to understanding of life around us. The more we rely on what dictates us mind, the more we leave by nature. The more we feel the world, the more we reduce the distance between us and the world. Bringing the breath into one rhythm with the nature, synchronizing it with the nature, we find feeling of as the part of the earth, the part of its processes of life and death.
Feeling the breath, heart beat, the movement of blood on veins of people approaches the source of this life which is in him. It reaches completeness of life, naturalness. Comes to beauty and harmony of internal and external qualities of its opportunities allowing it to go beyond. Doing, him - the Opportunity. The opportunity to raise the potential, the consciousness to infinite tops.