Meaning of sadhu | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An ascetic or practitioner of yoga (yogi) who has given up pursuit of the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (enjoyment), artha (practical objectives) and even dharma (duty).
   Hinduism
2. A male given name from Sanskrit.

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Examples

“Then again these figures take⟳ no account of the thousands of beggars who travel⟳ free in India. Many of these are religious "Sadhus", dressed often in nothing but a loin-cloth, or even less, and their bodies smeared with ashes. A large number⟳ of these men are nothing but impostors, but the Hindu railway staff usually are afraid to interfere⟳ with them.”

“It was clad in white in the manner of an Indian sadu or holy man, and it was walking barefoot on the grubby pavements.”

“So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances, obsessively counting the number⟳ of steps it took me to walk⟳ to any given location, carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get⟳ me, and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu.”

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