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sannyasin

n. A Hindu in the sannyasa stage.

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sannyasin

n. a Hindu religious mendicant [syn: sannyasi, sanyasi]

Usage examples of "sannyasin".

Charlotte was the fact that sannyasin Swami Prem Prasad was with Hanya at the airport.

The INS believed 95 per cent of sannyasin marriages with American citizens were fraudulently arranged to gain permanent residency, and that Rajneesh and other temporary visa holders had deliberately deceived the authorities.

On 9 January 1983, she divorced him in Portland, Oregon, and a week later married an American sannyasin, Swami Prartha Subhan.

The department heads, the press office, the tourist guides and the most humble sannyasin lied comprehensively to authorities, visitors and their own families, and deception became the donne!

Gesturing toward an assemblage of sannyasin women who cook, clean and answer phones, she honed the point.

She was upset for months, although she had often publicly humiliated him, and had been carrying on a love affair with another sannyasin, Krishna Veetraga, a South African pilot also known as Cedric Sarkin.

Before he became a sannyasin he had been working as a business consultant.

Belgium, frustrated by a reluctant sannyasin, she asked him how much money he had.

She told the wealthy woman sannyasin that Bhagwan had mentioned her and was very pleased with her progress.

It was followed by legally binding papers, so the sannyasin could sign over land, stocks or other possessions.

An Australian sannyasin wrote home that she expected soon to be in gaol, but she could not bring herself to leave the ranch.

Inside, I was ushered to a bench in a small annexe room, from which I could observe the activities of about fifty people, most of them wearing sannyasin clothing, and chiefly in their twenties and thirties.

And then, perhaps half an hour later, while I was sitting in front of a young woman sannyasin, that feeling of ecstasy returned to me.

By becoming a sannyasin and practising therapy under his guidance I am allowing him to take me beyond the limits of my previous understanding.

Eventually, however, he got his second chance when a young sannyasin woman got up and said she felt attracted to someone in the group, but felt frightened.