VASANAS: Subtle desires.

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vasana: (Sanskrit) "Subconscious inclination." From vas, "living, remaining." The subliminal inclinations and habit patterns which, as driving forces, color and motivate one's attitudes and future actions. Vasanas are the conglomerate results of subconscious impressions (samskaras) created through experience. Samskaras, experiential impressions, combine in the subconscious to form vasanas, which thereafter contribute to mental fluctuations, called vritti. The most complex and emotionally charged vasanas are found in the dimension of mind called the subsubconscious, or vasana chitta.

See: samskara, mind (five states), vasana daha tantra, vritti.

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vasana: (Sanskrit) "Subconscious inclination." From vas,

"living, remaining." The subliminal inclinations and habit

patterns which, as driving forces, color and motivate one's

attitudes and future actions. Vasanas are the conglomerate

results of subconscious impressions (samskaras) created

through experience. Samskaras, experiential impressions,

combine in the subconscious to form vasanas, which

thereafter contribute to mental fluctuations, called vritti.

The most complex and emotionally charged vasanas are

found in the dimension of mind called the subsubconscious,

or vasana chitta.

See: samskara, mind (five

states), vasana daha tantra, vritti.

(See also: Vasana, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Parmarthi Raina A disciple once asked Sri Chandrashekhara Bharati Mahaswami of Sringeri: Often, we blame fate for our failures. Are our lives governed by fate? Can free will shape our lives? Which is stronger, fate or free will?

The conflict between fate and free will arises only if we consider them as two different things. Both are karma or action - fate is the result of past karma, and present karma is free will.

(See also: Fate or Free will, Faith and Belief, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Mitahara, Asana And Shakti-Chalana

5. Of these two, viz., Prana and Vasanas, the student of Yoga should control Prana by moderate food (Mitahara), by Asanas or Yogic postures and thirdly by Shakti-Chalana.

From "Kundalini Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda

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The Yoga-Kundalini Upanishad presents methods for the control of Prana. The Yogic student does not deal with Vasanas. He concerns himself with the techniques of controlling the Prana.

From "Kundalini Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda

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The ochre colour (Gerua) of the dress of a Sannyasin indicates that he is as pure as fire itself. He shines like the burnt gold, free from all impurities of desires and Vasanas. It denotes purity. It stands for purity.

Excerpt from All About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda

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vasana: innate tendency. These subconscious tendencies color all levels of our personality: our perceptions, emotions, thoughts and actions. It is postulated that they are brought with us into this life from previous births.

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 Vasana:

longing

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vasana:

vasana - longing

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Vasanas:

Vasanas: subtle desires.

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Vasana - Impression of action that remains in the mind.

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VASANA-KSHYA: Desireless.

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Vasana, Conditioning, Tendencies, Self-limitation:

Self-imposed limitations; the general idea is that your true self is unbounded and without attributes, yet most people generate their own bondage and subsequent suffering by faulty identification with that which is less than their true self. These limitations are in essence different forms of attachments, such as attachment to one's:

 · Personal history (memory)

 · Personal strengths and weaknesses

 · Predispositions

 · Likes and dislikes

 · Habits

 · Habitual outlook

 · Opinions

 In short all the things that go into building your individual sense of self or ego. The word vasana is usually translated as mental conditioning or subtle tendencies.

(See also: Vasana, Conditioning, Tendencies, Self-limitation, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Vishaya vasana:

Vishaya vasana: Attachment of sensual objects

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VASANA: latent subtle desire

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vasana:

vasana (vaasana). Inclination, impression of anything remaining in the subconscious mind from past action.

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Vasana-kshya:

Vasana-kshya: desireless.

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Vasana's:

Vasana's: tendencies and impulses. Tendency on the basis of karma. Obstacle in one's own conditioning and experience, possibly also from former lives. Also the present awareness of previous observations. So also trauma's, recollections etc.

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vasana daha tantra: (Sanskrit) "Subconscious

purification by fire." Daha means to burn, a tantra is a

method, and vasanas are deep-seated subconscious traits or

tendencies that shape one's attitudes and motivations.

Vasanas can be ether positive or negative. One of the best

methods for resolving difficulties in life, of dissolving

troublesome vasanas, the vasana daha tantra is the practice

of burning confessions, or even long letters to loved ones or acquaintances, describing pains, expressing confusions

and registering complaints and long-held hurts. Writing

down problems and burning them in any ordinary fire

brings them from the subconscious into the external mind,

releasing the supressed emotion as the fire consumes the

paper. This is a magical healing process.

See: lekhaprartha

havana, vasana.

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