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  2. Vairagya - Wikipedia

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    Vairāgya is an abstract noun derived from the word virāga (joining vi meaning "without" + rāga meaning "passion, feeling, emotion, interest"). This gives vairāgya a general meaning of "ascetic disinterest" in things that would cause attachment in most people. It is a "dis-passionate" stance on life.

  3. Rajas - Wikipedia

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    Rajas is sometimes translated as passion, where it is used in the sense of activity, without any particular value and it can contextually be either good or bad. [1] [2] Rajas helps actualize the other two guṇa. [5] [6] In simply it is the mixture of both sattva and tamas.

  4. List of earth deities - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of earth deities.An Earth god or Earth goddess is a deification of the Earth associated with a figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes. There are many different Earth goddesses and gods in many different cultures mythology.

  5. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  6. Guṇa - Wikipedia

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    Guṇa is both a root and a word in Sanskrit. Its different context-driven meanings are derived from either the root or the word. In verse VI.36 of Nirukta by Yāska, a 1st millennium BC text on Sanskrit grammar and language that preceded Panini, Guṇa is declared to be derived from another root Gaṇa, [16] which means "to count, enumerate". [17]

  7. Ishq - Wikipedia

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    Ishq (Arabic: عشق, romanized: ʿishq) is an Arabic word meaning 'love' or 'passion', [1] also widely used in other languages of the Muslim world and the Indian subcontinent. The word ishq does not appear in the central religious text of Islam, the Quran , which instead uses derivatives of the verbal root habba ( حَبَّ ), such as the ...

  8. Tapas (Indian religions) - Wikipedia

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    Tapas (Sanskrit: तपस्, romanized: tapas) is a variety of austere spiritual meditation practices in Indian religions.In Jainism, it means asceticism (austerities, body mortification); [1] [2] in Buddhism, it denotes spiritual practices including meditation and self-discipline; [3] and in the different traditions within Hinduism it means a spectrum of practices ranging from asceticism ...

  9. Types of Karma (Jainism) - Wikipedia

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    The Vedas or the gender passion hinders the jiva from obeying the laws and from practicing self-discipline. It is of threefold variety, according to the three species of sexes: [13] Purusa veda (the male gender and corresponding gender passion) - Through this, in the man the desire for union with a female is produced. Also man has at first an ...