Purity

An object is pure if it has no contamination or foreign material. In reference to precious metals, purity is a measure of what percentage of an alloy is the metal in question. Purity is generally measured in carats. In The X-files, Purity is the codename of the Black Oil virus Category: Metals ...

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Purity: Encyclopedia - Carat purity Carat is a measure of the purity of gold and platinum alloys. One carat in this sense is one twenty-fourth purity by weight. Therefore 24-carat gold is pure gold, 12-carat gold is 50% purity, etc. In the United States and Canada, the spelling karat is usually used for the measure of purity, while carat refers to the measure of mass. The carat system is increasingly being complemented or superseded by the millesimal fine ...

Purity: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary on Purity impurity

Purity impurity: Shaucha-ashaucha.

Purity and its opposite, pollution, are a fundamental part of Hindu culture. While they imply a strong sense of physical cleanliness, their more important meanings extend to social, ceremonial, mental, emotional, psychic and spiritual contamination. Freedom from all forms of contamination is a key to Hindu spirituality, and is one of the yamas.

- Physical purity requires a clean and wellordered environment, yogic purging of the internal organs and frequent cleansing with water.

- Mental purity derives from meditation, right living and right thinking.

- Emotional purity depends on control of the mind, clearing the subconscious and keeping good company.

- Spiritual purity is achieved through following the yamas and niyamas, study of the Vedas and other scriptures, pilgrimage, meditation, japa, tapas and ahimsa.

- Ritual purity requires the observance of certain prayashchittas, or penances, for defilement derived from foreign travel, contact with base people or places, conversion to other faiths, contact with bodily wastes, attending a funeral, etc.

Purity is of three forms - purity in mind, speech and body, or thought, word and deed. Purity is the pristine and natural state of the soul. Impurity, or pollution, is the obscuring of this state by adulterating experience and beclouding conceptions. In daily life, the Hindu strives to protect this innate purity by wise living, following the codes of dharma. This includes harnessing the sexual energies, associating with other virtuous Hindu devotees, never using harsh, angered or indecent language, and keeping a clean and healthy physical body.

See: dharma, papa, penance, punya, yamaniyama.

(See also: Purity impurity, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

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Purity: Purity of Body and Mind

Purity comprises both external purity and internal purity. Purity implies both purity of body and purity of mind. Purity of body is only the preliminary to purity of mind.

Excerpt from All About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda

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Purity: Encyclopedia - Purity ring

Purity rings, or Chastity rings are a symbol of virginity in religious cultures. A person who wears a purity ring is vowing to save sex for marriage. The ring is usually worn on the left ring finger. There is no particular style for purity rings; however, many have a cross in their design in reference to Jesus Christ. A reporter David Bario in his article posted in Chicago Tribune, Rutland Herald (on March 29, 2005) and at several other news websites wrote: "Under the Bush administration, organ ...

Purity: Hindu Symbols - Sipping water or Achamana

Achamana is sipping water three times, repeating the Names of the Lord. Prokshana is sprinkling water over ones body for the sake of purity, when a bath is not possible. This is for internal as well as external purity. While sipping water Mantras are repeated.

Excerpt from All About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda

Purity: Encyclopedia - Beauty contest

A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competition between people, based largely, though not always entirely, on the beauty of their physical appearance. Almost invariably, competitions for men and women are separate events, and those for men are not referred to as beauty contests except derogatorily. Those for women are more common; male beauty contests, like Mr. Universe are traditionally body building contests. In the 1990s, male beauty contests focusing more on the physical beauty and attractiveness of the ...

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Purity: Encyclopedia - VFO

VFO is an acronym for Variable Frequency Oscillator. A variable frequency oscillator is needed in any radio receiver or transmitter that works by the superheterodyne principle, and which can be tuned across various frequencies. Altering the frequency of the VFO will control the frequency to which the radio is tuned. VFO - Why do radios need a VFO?. In a simple superhet radio receiver, incoming radio frequencies from the antenna are made to mix (or multiply) with an internally generated radio f ...

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VFO - Digital VFO

VFO - Digital Frequency Synthesis

VFO - Performance

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Purity: Encyclopedia - Yazidi

The Yazidi or Yezidi (Kurdish: Êzidî) are adherents of a small Middle Eastern religion with ancient origins. They are primarily ethnic Kurds, and most Yazidis live near Mosul, Iraq with smaller communities in Syria, Turkey, Iran, Georgia and Armenia, and are estimated to number ca. 500,000 individuals in total. There are also Yazidi refugees in Europe. Yazidi - Origins. The origins of Yazidism are ultimately shrouded in the mist of the ancient Middle East. Although the Yazidis speak Kurdish, ...

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Purity: Encyclopedia - Kashrut

Kashrut (Hebrew: כַּשְׁרוּת kašrûṯ) or "keeping kosher" (Hebrew: כָּשֵׁר kāšēr) is the name of the Jewish dietary laws. Food in accord with halakha (Jewish law) is termed kosher in English, from the Hebrew term kasher, meaning "fit" (in this context, fit for Jewish consumption). Food not in accord with Jewish law is termed treifah or treif (טְרֵפָה ṭərēp̄āh) ...

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Purity: Encyclopedia - Jewish view of marriage

Judaism considers marriage to be the ideal state of existence; a man without a wife, or a woman without a husband, are considered incomplete. Jewish view of marriage - Classical customs. In traditional Jewish society, from the era of the Talmud up to the enlightenment, social association of the sexes was usually restricted (tzeniut). In Orthodox Jewish communities these social restrictions are still in force. Jewish view of marriage - Betrothal from the Mishnah and Talmud ...

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Jewish view of marriage - Classical customs

Jewish view of marriage - Betrothal from the Mishnah and Talmud

Jewish view of marriage - Marriage ceremony

Jewish view of marriage - Reform and Conservative adaptations

Jewish view of marriage - The Ketubah

Jewish view of marriage - Conservative Reform and Reconstructionist changes

Jewish view of marriage - Divorce

Jewish view of marriage - Conservative and Reform changes

Jewish view of marriage - Marriage in Israel

Purity: Encyclopedia - Judaism

Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. It is one of the first recorded monotheistic faiths and one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced today. The tenets and history of Judaism are the major part of the foundation of other Abrahamic religions, including Samaritanism, Christianity, and Islam. Over at least the last two thousand years, Judaism has not been monolithic in practice, and has not had any centralized authority or binding dogma. Despite this, Judaism in all its variations has remained tightly bound ...

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Judaism - Judaism and other religions

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Purity: Encyclopedia - 22/22k

22/22k is a quality mark indicating the purity of gold. The first 22 signifies the "skin purity" and the second 22 signifies that after melting the quality of the gold is still 22K (22 Karat)or 91.66% of pure gold. This symbol or stamp is very popular in the gold jewellery business in Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Gulf Countries. This practice was pioneered and introduced in the early mid-1980s by Nemichand Bamalwa & Sons of Kolkata, India, sparking a revolution in India as it forced jewellers to indicate correctly the after-melting purity, and heightened consumer awareness made ...

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Purity: Encyclopedia II - Racial purity - Racial purity vs. Genetic diversity

While some people want to preserve the "racial purity", others think that, quite contrary, it is desirable to increase genetic diversity of human populations, arguing that it would increase the range of talents available to society. They also argue that it would improve the overall health of populations due to heterosis (or "hybrid vigor"), although no empirical evidence for this has been presented. The benefits of heterosis have been established in very many cases in the plant and animal kingdoms. There is no reason to assume that humans are an excep ...

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