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Apana, situated in the lower part of the trunk, presides over the lower functions, especially over the emission of such parts of the food as are rejected by the body and over procreation; it is intimately connected with the processes of decay and death. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/27/psychical-evolution#p6</ref>
==Ascent and Decent==
The practice of this yoga is double : one side is of an ascent of the consciousness to the higher planes, the other is that of a descent of the power of the higher planes into the earth-consciousness so as to drive out the Power of darkness and ignorance and transform the nature.
All the consciousness in the human being who is the mental embodied in living matter has to rise so as to meet the higher consciousness; the higher consciousness has also to descend into mind, into life, into matter.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/ascent-and-descent#p5,p6</ref>
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