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Unhappy Hungarian leaders becoming ascetic
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sadhu
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In Hinduism , a sādhu ( Sanskrit , "good; good man, holy man") is a religious ascetic or holy person. Although the vast majority of sādhus are yogīs , not all yogīs are sādhus. The sādhu is solely dedicated to achieving mokṣa (liberation), the fourth and ...
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n. (Hinduism) an ascetic holy man [syn: saddhu ]
Usage examples of sadhu.
However, the sadhu says he has, inside the temple, an exceedingly capable, exceedingly humpbacked devadasi woman who, for a trifle of silver.
He and Colonel Roach, commanding officer of the Oudh Irregular Rifles, who had held similar views concerning his sepoys, had both been proved wrong when news of the outbreak in Meerut and the capture of Delhi had reached the garrison, borne by fakirs and itinerant sadhus, holy men who had entered the native lines in secret to spread the tidings among their men.
I asked him, did you ever hear of the sadhu in India who as young boys begin hanging weights on their penises until eventually the damn things get so elongated they have to carry them around in little baskets?
His fellow sadhus are amused, nodding in unison, the empirical source, children immobilized by gastroenteritis, scavenging to live, to know what passes above, this nearly sunset occurrence, shadow moving toward the eastmost Ganges, choleroid feces, choleroid dehydration, choleroid vomit, girls with finger-cymbals laughing in a mango grove, the cowrie, the owl of good fortune.
He grew watchful and still as Anand described ash-gray men wandering naked with begging bowl and staff, holy men, sadhus, walking out their lives in mud and dust.