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The subtle nervous organisation of the psychic body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/rajayoga?#p2</ref> Nerve-channels. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p11</ref> Nāḍī-śuddhi or nerve-purification. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/01/a-system-of-national-education#p27</ref>
 
The subtle nervous organisation of the psychic body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/rajayoga?#p2</ref> Nerve-channels. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p11</ref> Nāḍī-śuddhi or nerve-purification. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/01/a-system-of-national-education#p27</ref>
  
==NAVEL CENTRE==
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==Navel Centre==
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The Navel centre (Nābhipadma) commanding the larger life-forces and passions and larger desire-movements is the main seat of the centralised vital consciousness (dynamic centre) which ranges from the heart level (emotional) to the centre below the navel (lower vital, sensational desire centre). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/experiences-on-the-subtle-physical-vital-and-mental-planes?#p16</ref><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-system-of-the-chakras?#p20</ref>
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The navel is the vital centre in the physical body but the natural seat of the vital is in the vital sheath of the subtle body, which sheath it pervades; but for action through the gross body it is centred at the navel and below it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-system-of-the-chakras?#p74</ref>
  
 
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==NIGHT==

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Nabhipadma

Navel centre. Manipura - governs the larger vital. [1]

NATURE (CHANGE OF)

Nididhyāsana

Fixing in concentration. [2] Fixed contemplation, the absorbed dwelling of the mind on its object. [3]

Niyama

Regulating moral habits. [4] The Niyamas are a discipline of the mind by regular practices of which the highest is meditation on the divine Being, and their object is to create a sattwic calm, purity and preparation for concentration upon which the secure pursuance of the rest of the Yoga can be founded. [5]

Nāḍī

The subtle nervous organisation of the psychic body. [6] Nerve-channels. [7] Nāḍī-śuddhi or nerve-purification. [8]

Navel Centre

The Navel centre (Nābhipadma) commanding the larger life-forces and passions and larger desire-movements is the main seat of the centralised vital consciousness (dynamic centre) which ranges from the heart level (emotional) to the centre below the navel (lower vital, sensational desire centre). [9][10]

The navel is the vital centre in the physical body but the natural seat of the vital is in the vital sheath of the subtle body, which sheath it pervades; but for action through the gross body it is centred at the navel and below it. [11]

NIGHT

NlṢṬHĀ

NAME

NECESSITIES

NIGRAHA

NĀRADA

NERVES

NIRVĀNA

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