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→Heart Centre/Hṛdpadma
The heart in this yoga should in fact be the main centre of concentration until the consciousness rises above. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/sadhana-through-love-and-devotion-iii#p2</ref>
==Heart Centre/HṛdpadmaHṛtpadma==
The heart centre— ''hṛtpadma'' or ''anāhata''— governs the emotional being.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/22/planes-and-parts-of-the-being-xiii#p10</ref>
The heart centre commands the psychic and vital—that opening enables the psychic influence to work in the vital and ends in the coming forward of the psychic being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/22/planes-and-parts-of-the-being-xiii#p34</ref>
If the heart centre is dominated by the physical mind to any extent it will necessarily be open to the outer attacks that affect the physical and nervous consciousness. The heart has to be in connection with the psychic and the higher consciousness.
The physical heart is in the left side, but the heart centre of yoga is in the middle of the chest—the cardiac centre. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/22/planes-and-parts-of-the-being-xiii#p52,p53</ref>
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