Sentences with word «sadhu»

Now, you have heard the Ganga called the river of emancipation, and hundreds of American tourists come each year to take photographs of naked sadhus at Hardwar or Benaras, and our prime minister will no doubt describe it that way to you, and urge you to take a dip in it.

Hindu holy men or sadhus arrive at Sangam to participate in the upcoming Maha Kumbh Festival, in Allahabad on December 2, 2012.

A parade float carrying sadhus barreled recklessly through the crowded, potholed dirt road.

And so starts a game of one - up - manship, with both sides having tricks up their sleeves and where sundry characters like bhai turned sadhu - Batabhai and King of Casinos Johnny Bonzola, turn up to make the foursome's life miserable.

Just as during the Kumbh Mela sadhus and hermits expect you to click there photo and pay for it, during Pushkar Fair expect to be chased by gypsies, snake charmers and locals where they expect you to pay them for photographing them.

India's Kumbh Mela is a festival like no other — a mass of ritual bathing, naked sadhus, flashing lights and spiritual cleansing.

Later Sundar Singh, as a Christian, adopted the traditional way of life of a Hindu holy man or sadhu, living in great simplicity and wandering from village to village preaching and teaching.

A sadhu (Hindu ascetic) practices yoga asana with one of India's most prominent saints and teachers, Swami Ramdev (not pictured) at the Maha Kumbh Mela.

A «sadhu,» or holy man, with decades of dreadlocks swirled on his head holds his swollen jaw.

What was interesting though was how disease ridden so many of the sadhus (spiritual renunciates) were, they were literally coughing their lungs out and their bodies were falling apart.

Freeman spent nine years in Asia studying a variety of spiritual traditions and traveled as a sadhu (holy person), so his teachings have a strong philosophical grounding.

The sadhu had been right, of course: she had three little brothers.

A sadhu came to her in the dream, and he said if we named you Poornima, we'd have a boy next.»

Alila's signature experiences ensure you'll venture beyond the fortress walls: guests can visit locals in their homes to see handloom weaving and pottery demonstrations, ride a camel through the village, sip masala chai with a sadhu (holy man), or go on a game drive to spot tigers and leopards.

Not least with the sadhus, religious spiritual men who are wander the environment with tan sandals and copper bangles.