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Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

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Mudra: a psychic attitude often expressed <strong>by</strong> a physical gesture, movement or posture,<br />

which affects the flow of psychic energy in the body.<br />

Nada: sound, especially inner sound.<br />

Nadayoga: the yoga of subtle sound.<br />

Nadis: psychic channels for the distribution of prana in the astral body.<br />

Neti: hatha yoga cleansing technique in which warm saline water is passed through the<br />

nasal passages; one of the shatkarmas.<br />

Nirvana: enlightenment, samadhi; harmony between the individual consciousness and the<br />

universal consciousness.<br />

Nivritti marga: the path leading back in towards the source from which we have first<br />

come.<br />

Nuclear fission: the process of extracting energy from matter <strong>by</strong> splitting the atom.<br />

Om: the underlying'sound of creation; the mantra from which all others have come.<br />

Paranoia: chronic mental disorder characterized <strong>by</strong> delusions or hallucinations.<br />

Parasympathetic nervous system: division of the autoncmic (involuntary) nervous system<br />

concerned with restorative processes and relaxation of the body and mind.<br />

Pashu: the instinctual or animal aspect of man's nature.<br />

Pineal gland:, small pine-cone shaped endocrine gland in the midbrain directly behind<br />

the eyebrow center; the physical correlate of ajna chakra.<br />

Pingala: the conductor and channel of prana shakti or vital force, located on the right side<br />

of the psychic body; the 'tha' of hatha yoga.<br />

Prakriti: the basic substance or principle of the entire phenomenal or manifest world,<br />

composed of the three gunas (triguna) or attributes.<br />

Prana: the life force in the body; bioenergy in general; the vital energy which operates in<br />

the region of the heart and lungs; the psychic equivalent of the physical breath.<br />

Pranamaya kosha: energy dimension; conscious aspect.<br />

Prana shakti: pranic or vital force.

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