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How to pronounce sannyasin in English?

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Synonyms sannyasi, sanyasi
Type of beggar, hindoo, hindu, mendicant

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He became a sannyasin on 31 December 1975 and received the name Swami Vinod Bharti.
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By the way, sannyasi is in Merriam-Webster, but sannyas and sannyasin seem not to be.
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His mother took up the life of a sannyasin, and Sri Ramana began to give her intense, personal instruction, while she took charge of the Ashram kitchen.
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He became a sannyasin in the mid-1970s, but later left the movement and instead found spiritual companionship and guidance with U.G. Krishnamurti, whose biography he wrote in 1992.
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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