why do indians wear red dots on their foreheads?

Answer 1

A bindi (Hindi: बिन्दि meaning "dot") is a forehead decoration worn in South and Southeast Asia. It can also be called a pottu or a tilaka.

Married Hindu women traditionally wear a bindi on their foreheads. The traditional bindi is made with red sindoor powder or perhaps a black ointment. It is applied over the ajna, or forehead chakra, a center of bodily and spiritual energy that represents the third, or "spiritual" eye in Hindu belief. The bindi is believed to prevent the loss of "energy", as well as bringing spiritual protection against demons or bad luck.
In the contemporary age, the bindi has become a decorative item and is worn by unmarried as well as non-Hindu women, in India, Bangladesh and other countries of South Asia. It is no longer restricted in colour or shape. Self-adhesive bindis made from felt in various designs and colours are now available.

Outside South Asia, bindis may be worn by women of the South Asian diaspora. Some Westerners who have converted to Hindu sects like the Hare Krishna may wear bindis. Sometimes they are worn as a style statement. International celebrities such as Shakira, Gwen Stefani, Madonna, and Shania Twain have been seen wearing bindis.

The bindi is often associated with women, but in fact it can be worn, either by itself or as part of a more elaborate caste-mark (naamam) by tradition-minded Hindu men.

Answer 2

HINDUS:
Attach great importance to this ornamental mark on the forehead between the two eyebrows, a spot considered a * Major Nerve Point In The Human Body.
Also loosely known as 'tika', 'pottu', 'sindoor', 'tilak', 'tilakam', and 'kumkum', a bindi is usually a small or a big eye-catching round mark made on the forehead as adornment.

THE RED DOT:
In southern India, girls choose to wear a (Bindi = Red Dot), while in other parts of India it is the prerogative of the married woman. A red dot on the forehead means
"Good Luck" sign of marriage. Through the wedding doorway, is believed to usher in prosperity, and grants her a place as the guardian of the family's welfare and children.

THE HOT SPOT:
The area between the eyebrows, the 6th Chakra known as the "Agna" meaning "Command", is the seat of concealed wisdom. It is the centre point wherein all experience is gathered.
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Answer 3

For a woman red dot means that she is married.
In other cases, red colored powder called kunkuma is offered to the Deity of the Lord in some temples. After offering it to Deity, the remnants are put in the altar room, and people who visit the temple take some of it and put a dot on their forhead, indicating that they have visited the temple. It is one of the items of bhakti-yoga to accept remnants of food, flowers or other things offered to the Deity of Supreme Lord.

Answer 4

bindis represent the third eye (not literally). insight.

Answer 5

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