Your body is a living body because of your presence in it. Your presence in your body gives it energy, the life force that makes it be a living body. In Sanskrit, this is called prana. There is cosmic prana, and personal prana. Cosmic prana keeps the whole universe alive. This is a living, breathing universe. That's one of the reasons we like looking at the stars at night. We're being bathed in cosmic prana, the life force of the universe. Walking in the woods, we're being filled by the prana of the forest. Personal prana is your prana, your energy, your life force. It keeps your body alive.

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