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  2. Karma in Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    Karma is a concept of Hinduism which describes a system in which beneficial effects are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful effects from past harmful actions, creating a system of actions and reactions throughout a soul's ( jivatman's) reincarnated lives, [ 1] forming a cycle of rebirth. The causality is said to apply not only to ...

  3. Hindu iconography - Wikipedia

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    Hinduism. Over the millennia of its development, Hinduism has adopted several iconic symbols, forming part of Hindu iconography, that are imbued with spiritual meaning based on either the scriptures or cultural traditions. The exact significance accorded to any of the icons varies with region, period and denomination of the followers.

  4. Third eye - Wikipedia

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    The third eye (also called the mind's eye or inner eye) is an invisible eye, usually depicted as located on the forehead, supposed to provide perception beyond ordinary sight. [ 1] In Hinduism, the third eye refers to the ajna (or brow) chakra. In both Hinduism and Buddhism, the third eye is said to be located around the middle of the forehead ...

  5. Hindustani profanity - Wikipedia

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    Behenchod (बहनचोद, بہنچود; English: Sisterfucker), also pronounced as behanchod is sometimes abbreviated as BC, is a Hindustani language vulgarism. It is a form of the profanity fuck. The word is considered highly offensive, and is rarely used in literal sense of one who engages in sexual activity with another person's sister ...

  6. Silent reading - Wikipedia

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    Silent reading is reading done silently, or without speaking the words being read. [ 1] Before the reintroduction of separated text (spaces between words) in the Late Middle Ages, the ability to read silently may have been considered rather remarkable, though some scholars object to this idea. [ 2][ 3][ 4] In contrast, reading aloud activates ...

  7. Eye movement in reading - Wikipedia

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    Eye tracking device is a tool created to help measure eye and head movements. The first devices for tracking eye movement took two main forms: those that relied on a mechanical connection between participant and recording instrument, and those in which light or some other form of electromagnetic energy was directed at the participant's eyes and its reflection measured and recorded.

  8. Nazar (amulet) - Wikipedia

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    Nazar (amulet) Eye beads or nazars – amulets against the evil eye – for sale in a shop. An eye bead or naẓar (from Arabic ‏ نَظَر ‎ [ˈnaðˤar], meaning 'sight', 'surveillance', 'attention', and other related concepts) is an eye-shaped amulet believed by many to protect against the evil eye. The term is also used in Azerbaijani ...

  9. Satyarth Prakash - Wikipedia

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    Satyarth Prakash ( Hindi: सत्यार्थ प्रकाश, Satyārth Prakāś – The Light of Truth) is an 1875 book written originally in Hindi by Dayanand Saraswati (Swami Dayanand), a religious and social reformer and the founder of Arya Samaj. The book was subsequently revised by Swami Dayanand Saraswati in 1882 and has been ...