Question: I would be grateful if you kindly explain the similarities and dissimilarities between prana and consciousness and so on.

Babaji:

All are same, at different stages, different terminologies are used. So when it is thinking the terminology used is the mind. And when you are alive, because of that your body is alive. So that is what the prana is, that energy, that consciousness is the prana also. That is the terminology used. As I told this is a peculiar relationship between mind and the brain. The mind is the food for brain to be alive. As long as this body is alive we say there is a prana in this body. When it becomes quiet the prana is gone, that's what people normally say. But it is the same consciousness called the mind and the prana, all are the same. The Soul is the ultimate truth of this mind. If the mind is like a droplet, soul is like the ocean. The ocean's droplet that's what the relationship is. Mind is to the soul just like the sun's ray is to the sun. That's what the connection is. So the sadhana starts so that the mind loses all its imaginations. If it loses imagination it becomes quiet, concentrated, purified and goes introverted and gets absorbed into the Self. This is the process that happens. That's why sadhana is taught so that you can achieve the quietening of the mind. So different stages there name are like that. They are all connected to each other.