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In plain words

Sri Ramakrishna: "In hathayoga you have to give a great deal of attention to the body. To wash out the inside, they keep a bamboo tube in the anus. They draw up milk and ghee through the sexual organ. They practise the mastery of the tongue. Sitting in a posture, they sometimes rise into the air. All that is the working of the vital air. One man, while showing his tricks, had thrust his tongue up into the palate. At once his body became still. People thought he had died. For many years he lay buried. After a long time that grave had somehow broken open! Then all of a sudden the man came to. The moment he came to, he began to shout, Magic, take hold, magic, take hold!" Everyone laughed. "All this is the working of the vital air."