1. karma subjecting a group of people to cruel treatment because of their religious beliefs 2. mantra the attainment of enlightenment and freeing of the spiritual self from attachment to worldly things 3. nirvana the quality of a person's current and future life is determined by his behavior in this and previous life 4. persecution a word or sound that is repeated during meditation

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the punishment for breaking the law would depend on the conditions or the seriousness of the law being broken, if he or she breaks the law while doing some great discovery or invention then it would classify as a scientific fraud. there are other words to describe the crime but scientific fraud would be the harshest one.

a variant spelling of the word dote (british)