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Examples of sannyasi
sannyasi
There are a number of types of sannyasi in accordance with socio-religious context.
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By the way, sannyasi is in Merriam-Webster, but sannyas and sannyasin seem not to be.
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He was a sannyasi who believed in the infallibleauthority of the Vedas.
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In India, Father Roberto de Nobili assumed the saffron robes and vegetarian diet of a Hindu sannyasi, or holy man.
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The elder sannyasi Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami was a disciple of Prabhupada's sannyasa guru and was long a well-wisher of ISKCON.
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Ordination into any Hindu monastic order is purely at the discretion of the individual guru, who should himself be an ordained sannyasi within that order.
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Unlike the stereotypical image of the passive, mystical sannyasi, the Dasnami Nagas were and to some extent still are known for their military exploits.
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Symbolically, a sannyasi casts his physical body to fire by wearing saffron robes at the moment of taking up sannyasa itself, thus freeing his soul, while yet alive.
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Living almost alone in the countryside and writing his way out of disorder with a ruthless chastity and horror of indulgence, Naipaul carries himself still like a literary sannyasi.
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- A Hindu religious mendicant
- Sannyasa (sau1E43nyu0101sa) is the life stage of renunciation within the Hindu philosophy of four age-based life stages known as ashramas, with the first three being Brahmacharya (bachelor student), Grihastha (householder) and Vanaprastha (forest dweller, retired)...
- One who has renounced the world in seek of self-realization.
- A man in the renounced order, the final stage of spiritual progress in the varnashrama system. Sannyasis take a vow of lifetime celibacy.
- An ascetic, one who belongs to the fourth stage of life
