vasana

[vah-suh-nuh]

noun

Yoga.

1. any subconscious force that affects character.

Word History and Origins

Origin of vasana¹

From the Sanskrit word vāsanā

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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But vâsanâ generally refers to the tendencies of past lives most of which lie dormant in the mind.

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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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