Scientific Terms/Concepts

Pranic energy current operating above the throat.

Psychic breath.

Literally, 'no mind'; centre beyond mind or thought, where the mind is completely turned inwards.

Psychic attitude in which the eyes are open gazing outward, but the awareness is fixed within; also known as Bhairavi mudra.

Unfoldment; opening (of the eyes); blinking; expansion.

Literally, 'to sit close by'; last part of Vedas, containing their essence; containing dialogues between guru and disciple about the nature of reality and the identity of individual and cosmic consciousness.

Means or process.

Northern path; one of the two prescribed paths of meditation; path of light.