The mystics, ascetics, and saints of India : a study of Sadhuism, with an account of the Yogis, Sanyasis, Bairagis, and other strange Hindu sectarians (1905)
Oman, John Campbell, 1841-1911 · London : T. F. Unwin · leaf 136
ssionary entered into conversation withthe hermit, and learned from him that he had adopted alife of abstraction and isolation from the worJd neither toexpiate any sin nor to secure any reward. He averredthat he had no desires and no hopes, but that being re-moved from the agitations of the worldly… … Hi-i o ^* SADHUS DESCRIBED BY EUROPEAN VISITORS of his head. One of these sadkus, quite a young man, washolding up one of his arms; as, indeed, he had been doingfor no less than three years. The nails of his hand,says Ward, were grown long like the claws of a bird ofprey. Inquiry elicited from the…
Hinduism · Asceticism -- Hinduism · Mysticism -- India · Sadhus -- India · Hindu sects · India -- Religious life and customs
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