mendicants, holy men), with characteristics that mirror those found in later Sannyasins and Sannyasinis. For example, the Rig Veda, in Book 10 Chapter 136, mentions...

personal secretary and organisational chief. She became Rajneesh's first sannyasin, taking the name Ma Yoga Laxmi. Laxmi, the daughter of a key supporter...

The Song of the Sannyasin is a poem of thirteen stanzas written by Swami Vivekananda. Vivekananda composed the poem in July 1895 when he was delivering...

sectarian segregation of the Shaiva (Ēkadaṇḍi) and Srivaishnava (Tridandi Sannyāsins)". Professor Kiyokazu Okita and Indologist B. N. K. Sharma says, Sannyasis...

1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period, he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented...

Mahabharata and consists of the teachings imparted by a vyadha (butcher) to a sannyasin (monk). It occurs in the Vana Parva section of Mahabharata and is told...

a sannyasin, and soon falls in love with her. Though initially apprehensive of Bala, Vaishali reciprocates his feelings. The ashram's head sannyasin Rama...

mountain Arunachala, in Tiruvannamalai, where he took on the role of a sannyasin (though not formally initiated), and remained for the rest of his life...

of "the most ancient order of monks in the world, the Vedic order of sannyasins, a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance"...

Swami Shivananda (1854–1934), born Tarak Nath Ghosal, was a Hindu spiritual leader and a direct disciple of Ramakrishna, who became the second president...

Vinatā asked him to go and meet the Sannyāsin, who had promised her an illustrious son, in the forest and this Sannyāsin directed Garuḍa to Aurva, for advice...

Oregonian Publishing Co. p. E06. O'Brien, Paula (2008) The Rajneesh sannyasin community in Fremantle Archived March 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine...

Shankara called out to his mother to give him permission to become a Sannyasin or else the crocodile will kill him. The mother agrees, Shankara is freed...

of Nelson, British Columbia. The followers of the Guru Rajneesh, the sannyasins, established a center for their beliefs and lifestyle near Antelope, Oregon...

became involved, Antelope denied the sannyasins a business permit for their mail-order operation, and more sannyasins moved into the town. In April 1982...

instead of Indic text. A yogi is a practitioner of Yoga, including a sannyasin or practitioner of meditation in Indian religions. The feminine form,...

moved to Rikhia, Deoghar, Jharkhand. There he lived as a paramahamsa sannyasin and performed vedic sadhanas including Panchagni ("Five fires"), an intense...

Swami Atmapriyananda is an Indian university administrator and a monk (Sannyasin) of the Ramakrishna Order. He was the first[citation needed] Vice-Chancellor...

Niranjanananda now lives as an independent sannyasin, following the lifestyle and sadhanas of a paramahansa sannyasin. From 2013, following in the tradition...

movement in India that was founded by Swami Dayananda in 1875. He was a sannyasin (renouncer) who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda...

of Hinduism as one stage in the Ashrama dharma, that is as renunciate sannyasins. Pali samaṇa has been suggested as the ultimate origin of the word Evenki...

initiated into a sampradaya, Ramana Maharshi being a well-known example. A sannyasin belonging to the Sringeri Sharada Peetham once tried to persuade Ramana...

been antagonists, they now shared a common foe. Raju was a charismatic sannyasin, believed by many tribal people to possess magical abilities and to have...

needed] According to Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, a Hindu satguru is always a sannyasin, an unmarried renunciate, but not all writers include this stricture....

Adityanath – the abbot of the Gorakhnath Math Bodhinatha Veylanswami – Sannyasin and Satguru of the Nandinatha Sampradaya Gagangiri Maharaj - a yogi of...

he relocated to El Segundo, California, and changed back to his pre-Sannyasin name. Knapp refused to be interviewed for the documentary Wild Wild Country...

tradition in Hinduism states that he started life as a Mīmāmsaka, became a sannyāsin and an Advaitin after Maṇḍana Miśhra and his wife Ubhaya Bharati were...

Haṭha-yoga traditions, such as the Nāth school of Gorakṣa and the Dasanāmī Sannyāsins, which draw much of their yogic practice and ideas of the subtle body...

Benaras, Kankhal, South India, Ceylon, and Kashmir. She met several veteran Sannyasins of the Ramakrishna Order, including Swami Vishuddhananda, Swami Virajananda...

such states that once he was ploughing his fields, a large number of Sannyasins (Hindu religious mendicants) came to him hungry and sought food. Dhanna...