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  • noun Hinduism Any of a person's propensities inherited from a previous life

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Sanskrit impression

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  • Sanskaras (Sanskrit for impression; under the impulse of previous impressions) are the imprints left on the subconscious mind by experience in this or previous lives, which then color all of life, one's nature, responses, states of mind, etc - from Wikipedia.

    October 26, 2009