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Prana vs Breatharian - What's the difference?

prana | breatharian |

As nouns the difference between prana and breatharian

is that prana is respiration, breathing, seen as a life principle or life force while breatharian is one who lives without food, subsisting instead on prana or sunlight.

prana

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Hinduism, yoga) Respiration, breathing, seen as a life principle or life force.
  • * 1919': He it is who sends the (in-coming) '''Prana (life-breath) upward and throws the (out-going) breath downward. — ''The Upanishads translated by Swami Paramananda, 1919
  • * 1919': He who knows Aditi, who rises with '''Prana (the Life Principle), existent in all the Devas — ''The Upanishads translated by Swami Paramananda, 1919
  • * 1919': May my limbs, speech, '''Prana (life-force), sight, hearing, strength and all my senses, gain in vigor. — ''The Upanishads translated by Swami Paramananda, 1919

    • Derived terms

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    breatharian

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who lives without food, subsisting instead on prana or sunlight.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 2005-02-06 , title = He Must Be a Dream to Cook For , author = Jennifer Bleyer , newspaper = (The New York Times) , url = http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/nyregion/thecity/06brea.html , passage = Those who suspect a growing homogeneity in the once-eccentric East Village may find comfort in Dr. David Jubb, a New Age health guru who runs Jubb's Longevity on East 12th Street and claims to be a breatharian , taking light and air as his primary nourishment. }}

    Related terms

    * breatharianism

    See also

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