Understand fear of death - Patanjanli Yoga Sutras

Leaving body at will is related to your capacity to hold life energy in the upper body – udana; in the vital organs - especially lungs and heart. It is directly related to the ideas and concepts you carry about death. Udana means the ability to hold the breathing, breath energy, life energy in your lungs even while you are not thinking, while you are not breathing; liberating you and your life energy from breathing.

See earlier Patanjali gave technique to liberate you from eating. Now he is giving technique to liberate you from breathing. If you are having the right understanding about death you can be liberated from breathing. I can say drastically the need for the outer air can be reduced. Life energy can stay in your lungs as long as you want without change, alteration or disturbance.

Actually you take too much of food inside, only take very little energy from that food and dump all the remaining out because of your insecurity and the greed for taste. Same way you take too much of air inside through nose and take little bit energy from it - prana from it and leave all the other air outside because of your insecurity you may not get air and your greed for smelling.

Greed for smelling, greed for taste can be removed just by little understanding. But this insecurity need to be analyzed and removed by working on your unconsciousness. Why should you be insecured about food? It’s available all over. At least food you can say no no no I have to earn and pay. Why should you be insecured about the air? It is available all over. But the insecurity about life if you want to experience that, just hold your nostril for few seconds you will see no no…. you can easily comfortably hold your nostril without breathing maybe 30 to 40 second. But try to hold your nostril inside the water. Within 10 seconds you will have all kinds of ideas. Insecurity plays a major role in your breathing.