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In Sanskrit, the ancient Hindu language, the word “prana” refers to breath. Prana means “life force” or “life energy.”

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Tulsi Gabbard, a Hindu congresswoman from Hawaii, slammed the segment on Twitter.

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Perhaps we can take the principles that inspired Ghandi, Thoreau and others and apply them to local and state activism.

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“In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”

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Most of us have never literally worshipped a phallus, but historically, penises have been the focus of much religious veneration.

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“I leaned in for our first kiss. It wasn’t awkward, it wasn’t strange, it was just an amazing moment.”

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For evidence that most major world religions were invented by men for men, look no further than how they approach menstruation.

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There is no objective in this life. There are no winners or losers. You do not win by dying with the most money, or collecting the most honors and awards, or even having your name transcribed in the history books.

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Boys danced friskily in drum circles around bright, ceramic idols of Hindu gods; colorfully clad woman pushed past each other among seas of roadside stalls emitting wonderful and awful smells; rickshaw drivers swerved inches around us.

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I leaned forward because, as one of the students who erroneously thought Shiva was a she, I had a theory, but I wanted to hear what the others said first; and someone, one of the male students, confessed, “Final Fantasy VII!” So I was correct.