Correct Answer: Turiya

The Om symbol represents all aspects of your Self. The first curve is the Jagruti - your waking state. The second, Swapna, your sleeping state. The third, Sushupti, your sub-concious state. The horizontal curve above is Maya, veiling the truth. And the dot above represents the fourth Supreme State - Turiya, oneness with the Super Soul or Ultimate God, Brahman, who we also call Shiva or Narayana. It is the state of moksha or samadhi.

Correct Answer: Tamas

We have three gunas - Tamas, Rajas & Sattva. They’re the building blocks of everything in this universe and act like 3 strings that keep your soul connected to your body. Tamas is the friend in college who asks you to bunk class & chill in the park doing nothing. If you have a lot of tamas, you’ll feel lethargic, bored, uninterested in anything, and sleepy all the time. Oddly enough, Tamas is not all bad - in small quantities, it helps you get the sleep & rest you deserve, otherwise, you’ll burn out. Rajas is the friend in college who convinces you to start a business. If you have rajas, you’ll be motivated, ambitious & full of motion or action. Interestingly, a lot of Rajas lead to anxiety, jitteriness & disappointment after failure. That’s why you have Sattva - the sober guy who encourages you to focus in class & studies with you. Sattva helps you be calm, level-headed & wise in the long term. By hanging out with more sattva, your soul gets to climb up faster but as Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, at some point, you also need to leave sattva behind, along with all the other strings holding you back, to reach him.

Correct Answer: Anahata

Just like there are different diversions & machines in place to carry trains throughout a network, Hindus believe that our bodies also have certain invisible but very crucial points in our body that help in distributing the prana vayu (life force). These centres are nothing but the chakras - deriving from the words Chalana & Karoti which translates into a thing that enables movement. Here they're enabling energy to move throughout.

We have 100s of mini chakras & 7 main ones, including Moolaadhara (Root), Swadhishthana (Sacral), Manipuraka (Naval), Anahata (Heart i.e. Solar Plexus), Vishuddhi (Throat), Aadnya (Third Eye), Sahasraara (Crown)