vasana
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vasana
From the Sanskrit word vāsanā
Example Sentences
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Vasana Puemlarp, 65, Prinya Nakchudtree, 65, and Virachai Naewboonnien, 65, Thai election officials; to four years in prison, for abuse of power and misconduct related to ill-fated parliamentary elections in April; by Thailand's Criminal Court; in Bangkok.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great teacher shows there that forcibly repressing the physical body from working does not free one from vasana or vritti—the inherent inclination of the mind to work.
From Project Gutenberg
But vâsanâ generally refers to the tendencies of past lives most of which lie dormant in the mind.
From Project Gutenberg
It is by the revival of the vâsanâ suitable to each particular birth that there cannot be any collision such as might have occurred if the instincts and tendencies of a previous dog-life were active when any one was born as man.
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If Vâsanâ or longing for worldly pleasures and objects remains in anybody, even after hundreds of births, that person will be born again.
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