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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

Nistha

Faith [12]. Concentrated will in devotion.

Nāma-japa

The name of the Divine is usually called in for protection, for adoration, for increase of bhakti, for the opening up of the inner consciousness, for the realisation of the Divine in that aspect. As far as it is necessary to work in the subconscious for that, the Name must be effective there. Repetition of the name. [13]

NECESSITIES

NIGRAHA

NĀRADA

NERVES

NIRVĀNA

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