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sadhu, saddhu a Hindu wandering holy man How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| which prompts the glossy Indian Hotelkeeper and Traveller to purr: "To some of the materially affluent but psychologically sick and spiritually rudderless foreigners from far-flung corners of the world, India's saints and sadhus provide irresistible magnets of attraction") all but unhinges Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad. Still, he provides sensitive and poetic descriptions of evening worship, the temple bells and the moaning of a conch, an oil lamp waved in front of the deities, while sadhus sing Sanskrit hymns, their voices harmonized into a moving tenor chorus. The Sadhus (Hindu ascetics) and the VHP leadership disagree on who is the Hindu spiritual authority in India. |
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