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Why do the monks wear three white stripes and a red dot on their forehead?

April 26, 2017DOT forehead monks red stripes wear white

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Why do the monks wear three white stripes and a red dot on their forehead?

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These are the traditional sectarian marks of Saivite Hinduism. The three stripes, made with sacred ash, represent the three bonds of the soul–ego, karma and maya–which are destroyed by God’s grace. The dot represents the third eye of spiritual insight.