9/12/2015

A Day With A Sadhu In India

Sadhu is India's popular fashion practitioners, often ascetic unkempt, ragged, with the symbol of Lord Shiva trigeminal stick, walking recite ancient scripture. Ascetic must endure the pain of ordinary people think is something, as long Fasting even water, lying on a bed covered with nails, walking on hot charcoal, drinking urine shit, endure hot cold such things, to exercise patience and dispassion.


Ascetic, it refers to some of the early Indian religions as "ascetic" as a means of spiritual monks. "Ascetic" is "hot" means, because hot weather in India, religious believers put the heat as the primary means ascetic. Usually some kind of metaphor for the practice of the faith and to exercise self-restraint, self-discipline, to refuse the lure of material and flesh, to endure harsh environments oppressed.


Hindus believe that people need to go through several reincarnation to enter heaven, from God's care. And some people want to cut corners, get born in this oracle and Scriptures, the ascetic was considered such a shortcut.

Sadhu also called ascetic or ascetic, several thousand years of history in India. Hindu man's life into a net departure, home stage, the stage of practice and austerities of four. They generally gone through several important stages of their studies, work and married life, etc., and after the children grow up, ran away from home, to become God's messengers or servants.


The main task is to ascetic meditation practice, through the material life down to the most simple level to pursue liberation of the soul, get rid of the endless cycle of suffering. For this reason, after thousands of years without failure ascetic. They were a lot of people as to the mundane world of salvation "messenger of God."


India's ascetic about 400-500 million, accounting for 0.5 percent of the population, of which women accounted for 10%. Some scholars have analyzed the rise of ascetic order to fight the caste system. Three or four thousand years ago, some people advocate the abolition of the caste system hopes to join the ranks regardless ascetic and humble, to achieve equality of caste one world.

After years of development, many factions within the ascetic part, each with its own leader, beliefs and practices. From the perspective of a large division, can be divided into two factions, one faction is believed the God Vishnu, another is believe the God Shiva.


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