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| Baddha Konasana | Cobbler's Pose, baddha "bound, restrained" kona "angle" asana "pose".
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| Baddha Padmasana | baddha "bound, restrained" padma "lotus" asana "pose".
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| Badibod | Kashmiri word used by Lakshmanjoo, meaning "greater than the greatest".
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| Balasana | Child's Pose.
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| Bandha | locking, or tightening of muscle groups.
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| Bahir | outside, external.
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| Bahir kumbhaka | external breath retention. The stage of pranayama where breath is retained after exhalation.
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| Bahiranga trataka | concentrating the attention upon an external object such as a candle flame.
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| Bandha | a posture in which organs and muscles are contracted to create energy lock in a specific area.
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| Bas | enough, finished.
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| Basti | a colon cleansing technique.
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| Baudha ajnana | intellectual ignorance, can be removed by studying and understanding spiritual texts.
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| Baudha jnyana | intellectual knowledge.
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| Bhagvad Gita | a part of the famous Hindu epic "Mahabharata". Teachings of Lord Krishna to his disciple Arjuna at the commencement of the battle of Kurukshetra, with explanations on sannyasa yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga.
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| Bhajans | songs in Sanskrit verse., usually in praise of a universal force
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| Bhakti | devotion
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| Bhakti yoga | yoga of devotion.
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| Bhastrika pranayama | 'bellows' breathing technique in which the breath is forcibly drawn in and out through the nose in equal proportions, like the pumping action of the bellows.
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| Bhramara vedha | an experience with the rise of kundalini that is like the buzzing of a black bee.
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| Bhramari pranayama | breathing practice in which a soft "humming bee" sound is produced during exhalation to stimulate the Ajna Chakra
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| Bhujanga vedha | an experience of the rise of kundalini that is like a cobra rising.
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| Bhujangasana | cobra pose.
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| Bhujapidasana | bhuja "arm, shoulder" pida "pain, discomfort, pressure" asana "pose".
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| Bhrumadhya | energy center in the subtle body associated in the physical body with the forehead.
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| Bij | "seed" syllable of a mantram, energy source that gives power to the mantram.
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| Bijavasthapan | power of concealing "pidhana" when all activities concerned with external perception reside in one's own nature.
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| Bikram yoga | active yoga performed in a hot environment.
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| Bindu | in the Sanskrit alphabet, the dot that indicates the sound "m", symbolizes the point from which all creation emerges and into which it dissolves.
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| Bindu vedha | an experience of the rise of kundalini in which kundalini takes the form of semen.
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| Brahma | the god of creation.
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| Brahmacharya | Purity, chastity, nonlust, celibacy, refraining from promiscuity, one of the five yamas, or restraints, which are the first of the eight stages of classic Yoga.
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| Brahman | supreme consciousness, absolute reality, God, divinity.
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| Brahmanand | finding fullness of "God consciousness" residing in one's own nature.
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| Brahmarandra chakra | energy center in the subtle body representing realization, associated with the physical body at the top of the head.
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| Brahmin | highest Hindu caste.
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| Buddhi | The intellect.
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| Buddhidhyana | intellectual meditation.
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| Bund | a causeway or berm built next to a body of water. |
