Word: sadhu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strode toward the plane's ramp after the review, the Prime Minister was halted by a shaggy sadhu (holy man), black-bearded and maned, who thrust a bouquet of chrysanthemums into his hand. Graciously, Nehru took the gift. On the ramp's top, he turned and clasped hands in a farewell namasthe. "Goodbye and good luck," he called...
...Jumna's banks had a martyr,* if not a program for India. Swami Krishnanandji, like many another holy picketer, had been taken to jail. The police took away his trishool (5-ft. wooden staff with three points, known as the "stick of righteousness"), without which no sadhu can take food. So Krishnanandji went on a hunger strike. The police released him, but too late. He trudged wearily back to the sadhu camp. The next day, while a score of fellow ascetics chanted prayers and slogans ("Victory unto the Lord who alone destroys all Evil"), Krishnanandji quietly died. His friends...
...They also had an unofficial pressagent. No sadhu, Nandlal Sharma, like pressagents the world over, stated his case in soaring sentences. "I am proud that I can trace my dynasty back a thousand years," he said, "even back to the Creator. That is because of the chastity of our women. The ground has always been pure and the seed has been good. We believe Hinduism has existed for so many thousands of years because of the purity of our blood. The world today is threatened with imminent destruction, mainly because of the unchastity of women all over the world...
India is nothing if not selfconscious: Indians derive both humor and a satisfying sense of tragedy from their hopelessly internecine differences. As Sadhu Singh Dhami, a distinguished Sikh scholar, said last week: "The cow is sacred to the Hindus and pork repulsive to Moslems. . . . The Hindus are rather noisy in their ritual and greet an interesting variety of mute gods with a blare of conch shells and din of gongs, while the Moslems' worship of Allah is austere and silent and includes a bit of healthy physical exercise. The Moslem is circumcised, while the Hindu is not; the Moslem...