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- 2. think deeply or carefully about (something).
- 3. a member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood.
- 5. each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.
- 6. a manifestation of a deity or released soul in bodily form on earth; an incarnate divine teacher.
- 9. (in Buddhism) the nature of reality regarded as a universal truth taught by the Buddha; the teaching of Buddhism.
- 11. a period of seven days' formal mourning for the dead, beginning immediately after the funeral.
- 13. (in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jainist tradition) respect for all living things and avoidance of violence toward others.
- 14. a member of a people speaking an Indo-European (or specifically Indo-Iranian) language, or of an ancient people thought to have spoken the hypothetical proto-Indo-European language.
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- 1. the oldest text of Hinduism.
- 3. The Lord is to be approached by faith
- 4. one of the four goals or objectives of human life in Hindu traditions.
- 7. the spiritual life principle of the universe, especially when regarded as inherent in the real self of the individual
- 8. (in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.
- 10. (in Buddhism) a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the final goal of Buddhism.
- 12. (in Hinduism and Buddhism) a spiritual teacher, especially one who imparts initiation.