Hatha yoga of "Hatha yoga pradipika", "Siddhasana" is the most suitable and easiest posture to learn breathing exercises. The different Hatha yoga texts discuss "pranayama" in various ways. For example, "Hatha yoga pradipka" in section 2.71 explains it as a threefold practice: "recaka" (exhalation), "puraka" (inhalation) and "kumbhaka" (retention). During the exhalation and inhalation, the text states that three things move: air, prana and yogi's thoughts, and all three are intimately connected. It is "kumbhaka" where stillness and dissolution emerges. The text divides "kumbhaka" into two kinds: "sahita" (supported) and "kevala" (complete). "Sahita kumbhaka" is further sub-divided into two types: retention with
Bhagavad Gita that "when one sees the entire universe as pervaded by the single Universal Spirit [Krishna], one contemplates, marvels, and falls in love with its amazing glory. [...] Having experienced that Truth oneself, all doubts are dispelled. This is how the flower of devotion evolves into the fruit of knowledge." The "Gita" teaches several spiritual paths – jnana, bhakti and karma – to the divine. However, states Fowler, it "does not raise any of these to a status that excludes the others". The theme that unites these paths in the "Gita" is "inner renunciation" where one is unattached to personal rewards