Others, having restrained the flow of inhalation and exhalation, dedicated to prāṇāyāma, and others of regulated food, offer the prāṇa into the prāṇa.

Sacrifice of vital energy. Prāṇa-apāna-gatī ruddhvā — restraining the flows of prāṇa (inhalation) and apāna (exhalation) — describes kevala-kumbhaka or retention.

Prāṇāyāma-parāyaṇāḥ — dedicated to control of prāṇa — practice breathing techniques. Niyatāhārāḥ — of regulated food — also control intake. Prāṇān prāṇeṣu juhvati — offer prāṇa into prāṇa — is sacrifice of the lower into the higher, energetic refinement.