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 254
in a temple ofSiva. Here he continued his Vedantic studies and beganto practise yoga. But the spirit of unrest, which in Indiadrives so many to embrace the callinor of the ascetic, tookimperious possession of him. He accordingly left histemporary abode and visited the various sacred places ofMalwa… … THE SANYASI BHASKARANAXDA OF BENARES. Fig, 11. To face page 210. ii PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH SADHUS he resolved, says his Bengali biographer, to enter theaustere Asram of Sanyas. The true knowledge of gnan^had dawned in his mind. He saw through the unrealnature of the world, and felt the existence…
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