Mantra

Om Śhānti (IAST).

"Mantra" (/ˈmæntrə, ˈmɑːn-, ˈmʌn-/ (Sanskrit: मंत्र);) means a sacred utterance, numinous sound, or a syllable, word, phonemes, or group of words believed by practioners to have psychological and spiritual power in Sanskrit. A mantra may or may not have syntactic structure or literal meaning; the spiritual value of a mantra comes when it is audible, visible, or present in thought.

The earliest mantras were composed in Vedic times by Hindus in India, and those are at least 3000 years old. Mantras are now found in various schools of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Similar hymns, chants, compositions and concepts are found in Zoroastrianism,Taoism, Christianity, and elsewhere.

The use, structure, function, importance, and types of mantras vary according to the school and philosophy of Hinduism and of Buddhism. Mantras serve a central role in tantra. In this school, mantras are considered equivalent to deities, a sacred formula and deeply personal ritual, and considered to be effective only after initiation. However, in other schools of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism or Sikhism, initiation is not a requirement.

Om Shanti (film)

Om Shanti (Telugu: ఓం శాంతి) is a 2010 Telugu film directed by Prakash Dantuluri released on 13 January 2010.

Plot

Om Shanti is the story of five people: Anand (Navdeep), Teja (Nikhil Siddharth), Meghana (Kajal Aggarwal), Noori (Bindu Madhavi) and Anjali (Aditi Sharma).Meghana is a lady full of dreams and she seeks thrills all the time. She adores the RJ Maddy (Madhavan) madly. Teja is a struggler in the film industry and he feels that he has it in him to become the next Ravi Teja. Anand is a decent bachelor who works in a software company. He wants to settle down in life by getting married and he meets Anjali (Aditi Sharma) in the process. Noori's marriage is settled with Akbar. Her brother plots to plant bombs in the main places of Hyderabad. Reddy (Murali Mohan) is a farmer who loves his land and believes in agriculture. His son wants to sell off all the land so that they can migrate to Hyderabad and live a plush life. Reddy dies and Reddy’s wife (Pragati) comes to Hyderabad along with the family of her son. The rest of the story is all about how these five stories converge into a single incident.

Nok

Nok is a village in the south of Kaduna State, Nigeria. The discovery of terracotta figurines at this location caused its name to be used for the Nok culture, of which these figurines are typical, which flourished in Nigeria in the period 1000 BC - 500 AD. The artifacts were discovered in 1943 during mining operations. The archaeologist Bernard Fagg investigated the site, and with the help of locals discovered many other artifacts. Iron smelting furnaces were also found at Nok. Occupation dates far before the first iron smelting. A sample of carbonized wood found in the "main paddock" at Nok in 1951 was dated to around 3660 BC though there are questions about the reliability of this conclusion.

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NOK

NOK or Nok may refer to:

Cornești, Cluj

Corneşti (Hungarian: Magyarszarvaskend; German: Hirschdorf) is a commune in Cluj County, Romania. It is composed of nine villages: Bârlea (Ónok), Corneşti, Igriţia (Kisigrice), Lujerdiu (Lózsárd), Morău (Móró), Stoiana (Esztény), Tiocu de Jos (Alsótök), Tiocu de Sus (Felsőtök) and Tioltiur (Tötör).

Demographics

According to the census from 2002 there was a total population of 1,809 people living in this town. Of this population, 83.80% are ethnic Romanians, 14.64% are ethnic Hungarians and 1.54% ethnic Romani.

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