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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]

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