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The Mystics Ascetics and Saints of India. A Study of Sadhuism with an Account of the Yogis Sanyasis Bairagis and Other Starnge Hindu Sectarians

1903

The common proverb Gervi Kalloon se jogi nahin Kota attests the fact that ther Indians quite as much as Europeans are well aware that the habit does not make the monk and stories to the discredit of the religigiie ascetics are current all over Ines.; but they have not shaken the faith of the people in the sadhas at any rate' not more than the tales about the gaily immoral behaviour of the [...] It happens not infrequently that OA spectacle is presented of the contemporaneous existence of unbounded luxury and the most austere asceticism ; one being the result of the success of the few the other of the failure of the many. [...] In prosperous times the attractions of the far-off helve& lose something of their force in the presence of the nearer and more tangible allurements of the d'ay but as soon as the fierce struggle for existence becomes Oalamitous to the major portion of aft community the discomfiture of the Tarty once more revives from its still warm embers the dormant spirit of asceticism ; anthen new relig [...] qbaring the evil tendencies of matter—that is the flesh —purify the imprisoned spirit and render it fit for runkiarwith the Absolute Being the Hindu thinker might reasonably argue that as the austerities were increased and intensified the probability of the wished-for reunion of the ascetic's soul with the Absolute Being would become greater and greater and that by virtue of such approachin [...] did the same to secure the assistance of the god Rudra in the performance of a great sacrifice.' One rixhi the 911.1171/1: Aurva of the Brighu race ifluenced by a fierce caving for vengeance on account of some wrotgs suffered by his ancestors subjected himself to the direst penances for ( the destruction of every creature in the world " and was only persuaded to desist from his terrible pur
philosophy religion
Pages
338
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142521
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Preface
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Introduction
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Chapter I. Asceticism: its Qrigin and Development
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Chapter II. Some Peculiar and Distinctive Characteristics of Hindu Asceticism
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Chapter III. Sadhus Before the Public at Fairs and Elsewhere
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Chapter IV. The Wonders that Present-Day Sadhus and Faquirs are Said to Perform
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Chapter V. Some Glimpses of Sadhus in Indian Fiction
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Chapter VI. Sadhus as Described by some European Visitors to India
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Chapter VII. A View of the Successive Phases of Modern Hinduism of the Origin of the More Important Hinuu Sects in Relation to the Development of Sadhuism in India
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Chapter VII. Continued
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Chapter VII. Continued
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Chapter VIII. Hindu Ascetic Secfs and their Surdivisions
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Chapter VIII. Continued
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Chapter VIII. Continued
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Chapter VIII. Continued
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Chapter IX. Personal Experiences with Sadhus Good and Bad
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Chapter X. Some Sadhvis or Female Devotees
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Chapter XI. Hindu Monasteries
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Chapter XII. Conclusion
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Index
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Backmatter
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