How To Use Sadhu In A Sentence
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Only three sadhus, with straggling long hair and fierce beards, were immediately identifiable; the rest, we learned later, consisted of servants and assorted bhakts who had attached themselves to the temple.
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If skimpy clothing is the lifeline of the ramp, the biggest fashion show is staged on the banks of Ganges every twelfth year when thousands of Naga sadhus parade without even a stitch on their body.
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Thomas Kelly A group of sadhus engage in an austerity called the panch-agni-tapasya, or five fire practice, in which pieces of burning cow dung are placed around the Sadhu as he meditates or performs hatha yoga.
Understanding the Sadhu's Mysteries
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They give donations to the sadhus - regarded as offerings to the gods - and get their blessing in return.
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Some are holding beautiful flower garlands and decorations they hope to offer the sadhus as they pass.
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Tales of plentiful pearls, exotic spices, and ascetic holy men, like the present-day sadhu shown here, appear in pages on India in Marco's book from the late 1290s, The Description of the World.
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It was at times as if the Western press was reflecting the images of a colonial India: mysterious Pagan rites, naked sadhus, teeming masses praying to an alien God.
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Thomas Kelly This fierce-looking Sadhu from a Shaivite akhara, or militant sub-sect historically created to protect the scholarly sadhus, displays his sword and nag-phani, or serpent horn.
Understanding the Sadhu's Mysteries
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The film also has its own spiritual touch: many images of flying birds, water shots of the director swimming lyrically with his girlfriend, even an inspiring Himalaya climb with a sadhu, with a gorgeous "heaven on earth" shot of a lake snuggled in icy mountains.
Karin Badt: David Lynch and Transcendental Meditation: David Wants to Fly
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After participating in the Kumbha Mela, they went on a pilgrimage to various shrines, temples, and to yogis and sadhus, many of whom he had studied with while learning tantra, Ayurveda, occult teaching and yoga.
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Rishikesh is much more of a cosmopolitan, tourist attraction than Haridwar: it is full of ashrams, sadhus and international visitors attending yoga and meditation courses.
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Other sadhus practise what they call 'austerities', many of which involve self-mortification.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sadhus in loincloths chant mantras while Bollywood theme tunes blare from tinny speakers.
Times, Sunday Times
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India is the birthplace of Hinduism as well as Buddhism, motherland of Sikhs and Jains, the abode of more rishis, sadhus, mahatmas, and maharishis than any place on earth.
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In India, a holy man traditionally went through four stages: student, householder (good so far), forest-dweller (what??) and then sadhu -- a wandering beggar in search of moksha (liberation).
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It is our opinion that ashrams developed by a sadhu should be run by sadhus after the founder's passing.
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During Muslim and British times, the mela gathering of pilgrims and sadhus was a significant force in the preservation of Hinduism and the continued identity of India as a Hindu nation.
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A person undertaking such a practice is known as a sadhu or a sadhaka.
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It is our opinion that ashrams developed by a sadhu should be run by sadhus after the founder's passing.
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Like all the sects, its majority are devout families, headed by hundreds of orders of swamis and sadhus who follow the fiery, world-renouncing path to moksha.
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Kaydrub Norzang-gyatso favors Sadhuputra's generation stage ritual (bskyed-chog), while Kaydrubjey follows the Kalachakrapada tradition [transmitted by Vibhutichandra to Buton].
Question Sessions with H. H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Concerning the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 3 Tibetan Traditions of Kalachakra
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It was an occasion for all of the sadhus and yogis to be in one place so that seekers could find them.
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The last half an hour is a meditation at the sacred samadhi of Sadhu Vaswani.
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I took a carotid pulse and found that the sadhu was still alive.
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I took the wrong street and found one sadhu right on the riverbanks, which they called the Ghat, and then I said, "Oh, yeah, the holy men are generally by the holy river of the Ganges," so I traversed back and forth from one end of the Ganges to the other when I should've gone back to my original starting point and taken a different road.
Amazing Race's Ron and Christina: We Were Very Aware of Our Physical Limitations
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Some of the sadhus were distinctly scary - like the Aghoris with their bells and boar tusks and magic mantras, who insulted their amused but decorous Nepalese audience.
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As the debate rages in the West about the ungodly behavior of godly men, a series of sex scandals involving India's assortment of god men -- called sadhu, baba or swami -- is making skeptics out of many Indians.
Swami Sex Scandals Have India Questioning An Ancient Traditiong
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Sometime before the age of 20, he was initiated into sannyas by an old sadhu named Pandit Devi Sahaya Shukla.
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As assorted sadhus and sants hogged the front pages of newspapers and prime time television, our elected Members of Parliament could not do any of their routine work.
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Sadhus belong to many different sects or orders.
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Ramachandra (Victory to Ramachandra) roza ryot - peasant, farmer sadhu sanatanji (Hindu) sannyasi satyagraha satyagrahi seth, sheth
APPENDIX I
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Though Shiva is popularly known as the God of Destruction, for sadhus he is foremost the Master of Yogis.
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Thomas Kelly It's easy to idealize the Sadhus or mythologize them.
Understanding the Sadhu's Mysteries
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It mentions that holy sadhus in Borgampad carry ritualistic water vessels, called kamandals, made from a fruit resembling female butt-cheeks.
The Fruit Hunters
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Many of the pilgrims and sadhus carry plastic sheets and umbrellas over their heads.
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The sadhu was a heavy man too, with long white hair tied up in a knot and many beads around his neck.
Undefined
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I had been actively involved in negotiations with sadhus, saints and Muslim ulama for an amicable and peaceful solution to the Ayodhya tangle.
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The stay of sadhus has been arranged at schools and temples with proper basic amenities and free langer.
Entire administration gear up in view of Amarnath Yatra
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According to an ancient tale, there was once a Muslim shepherd named Buta Malik who was given a sack of coal by a sadhu.
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Days like this become a file of lingering images: women winnowing grain, children carrying almost their own weight in firewood, and meeting a Hindu sadhu on pilgrimage.
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In ecstasy, the disciples prepared a huge feast, the guru ate heartily and the ashrama was once again a happy home for sadhus.
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Justin sat silhouetted against the river bank, gaping at a bunch of Naga sadhus smoking chillum.
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The common devotee should ascertain the sadhu's level of knowledge and devotion, and who is his guru and lineage.
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There are also reports of how youngsters in Jammu city are being lured towards these chillum smoking sadhus who have free access to intoxicants.
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There is no question that the Spirit is very much present in India: everywhere you go, you find ashrams, yogis, sadhus, ordinary people practicing meditation or pranayama.
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India is the birthplace of Hinduism as well as Buddhism, motherland of Sikhs and Jains, the abode of more rishis, sadhus, mahatmas, and maharishis than any place on earth.
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I think the king's grief carried away some of his reason – it sometimes happens so, you know – for when Hari sent him a faqir to tell him that the gods had punished him for being so happy and foretasting heaven on earth, and that he must atone by becoming a Sadhu himself, he objected not, but listened calmly and obeyed.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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Those who follow the fast track, mostly men, are the sadhus, the ‘holy men’ of India.
