Sushumna
The central channel in the energy body which conducts the Kundalini, or spiritual force.
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Sadhu
An accomplished spiritual seeker. Sadhus usually have no fixed abode and travel from one place to another, most often living on aims. There are countless sadhus on the roads, by ways, mountains, riverbanks and caves of India who by their very existence, have a profound effect on the consciousness of the world but many have become sadhus in order to escape from all the work that life involves and as a shelter for lethargy and escapism.
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Sakshi
lit. witness, a common way of describing the Self. Witness consciousness.
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Pranayama
A powerful yogic practice that uses certain breathing techniques to generate and direct the flow of prana in the human body.
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Prathishta
Process of consecration or energizing an object with Divine energies. These processes are mainly of two kinds – Mantraprathishta, through chanting of appropriate mantras and performing of rituals and pranaprathishta, through a direct process involving the consecrator’s own prana shakthi – life energies.
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Nirmanakaya
A created body. Adept yogis are known to have created and possessed physical bodies for themselves to fulfill certain special purposes.
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Pingala
One of the major pranic channels of the body. Located on the right side of the body, it is masculine in nature.
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Prana
Fundamental life force: vital energy.