Swami Deva est une renoncante, ou
sannyasin, d'origine canadienne, agee d'une soixantaine d'annees, qui vit en Inde depuis plus de trente ans.
SANNYASIN WITH AN UNHOLY OBSESSION WITH BLOODSHED ACCUSED OF: September 2008 Malegaon blast
Stork spent nine years as a
sannyasin, a follower of the Indian spiritual teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
A renunciate is known as a
sannyasin. (15) The Buddha challenged tradition by encouraging young people to become bhikkus (monks), a type of
sannyasin.
He subsequently became a kind of
Sannyasin or holy man who wandered from one Hindu temple to another reciting Hindu epics and mythological texts.
Eliminating the participants with fewer than three trials has little effect upon the psi scoring for the male and female
sannyasin and student groups, as can be seen by comparing the graphs, but both male and female swamis can be seen to have performed much better than previously revealed.
"One day when she was eating something, he helped himself to a portion from the same plate, and remarked, 'It is fitting that we should eat from the same plate, we two vagabonds.'" (8) Perhaps he was conveying to her a variation of the title of
sannyasin, his own identity; and perhaps this quality of spontaneous freedom was what characterized his friendships generally.
Hinduism views life as proceeding through four stages (ashramas): student/learner, householder/producer, retiree/forest dweller and
sannyasin or renunciant.
The
Sannyasin took the vow of dedicating his life to Truth and to the service of humanity, and was honored as a spiritual leader of society.
Among his singular innovations was to become, insofar as he could, an Indian holy man, or
sannyasin, in order to help bridge the cultural divide preventing the preaching of the Gospel to the higher strata of Indian society.
He adopted the lifestyle, customs, and dietary practices of a Hindu renouncer (
sannyasin), calling himself the "Roman Brahmin." (9) Furthermore, by choosing to distance him self from fellow Jesuits by living in the Brahmin quarter of the town (agraharam), de Nobili also sought to dispel the prevailing ideas among the Tamils, who considered the Christian missionaries to be outcasts and low castes because of their meat-eati ng and drinking habits.
After the Ninth Parliamentary Elections in December 2008, the monks, sadhus, and sannyasis of different temple based religious institutions in the country urged to revive the Bangladesh Sant Mahamandal at a grand rally of Dharmagurus, Sadhus,
Sannyasins, Priests,Savaites and organizers of Temples and Human Rights activists at Bogra Ma-Bhabani Temple ( a sacred shrine of sati pitha of Devi Cult) was endorsed on 9 February 2009.