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    Scientific Terms/Concepts

    Energy vortex situated behind navel.
    Subtle sound vibration heard in the meditative state.
    Process of tracing psychic sound back to its original source in order to attain self realization.
    Centre where difference between sound and experiencer dissolves.
    1 flow; river; pranic channel which conducts the flow of energy in the body; 72,000 in number.
    Man; matter.
    Nose tip; also known as nasagra.
    Nine states of consciousness or higher awareness; nine forms through which the atman can be realized be.
    Lesson of the Upanishads related to the impossibility of reducing divinity to any explanation or definition.
    Sleep; isolation from mind and senses; unconscious state.
    Vedic knowledge; ritual procedures.
    Formless; unmanifest.
    Mental state in which the mind is blocked or prevented from functioning; beyond three qualities, or gunas.
    Psychic centre where the experience of form is superconscious state where mental obstructed.
    Modifications cease to exist, resulting in transcendence of the manifest world.
    Five observances of personal discipline which render the mind tranquil for meditation: shaucha, santosha, tapas swadhyaya, ishvara pranidhana.