Word: sanyasis
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Those teachings are mostly pop-Hinduism and anything-goes homilies. "I don't profess anything," Rajneesh says. The charm seems to lie in the guru's dramatic presence and the hope of an easy way to Eastern enlightenment. In ancient Hindu tradition, a sanyasi is a holy man who studies and meditates for years before he renounces the world. The Poona guru offers the blissful state of sanyas immediately, and calls it "neo-sanyas." Says he: "Westerners want things quickly, so we give it to them right away...
...country's Roman Catholic medical network, with its 400 small hospitals and 600 dispensaries. They run India's only social sciences institute. But perhaps the most engaging of the Indian Jesuits are the handful who have chosen to adopt the life-styles and manner of Hindu sanyasi−holy men−while continuing their work as Roman Catholic priests. Two such Jesuits are Swami Amalananda and Swami Animananda, who work in remote, poor villages in the state of Mysore. The 70-year-old Animananda, whose chosen name means "devotee of the small," turned sanyasi...
...decade later became Home Minister and Nehru's "architect of compromise." In the last two general elections, he ran the Congress Party's victorious campaign machinery, good training for high positions. Modestly, Shastri insists that he has never sought public office, but admits, "I am not a Sanyasi"-a Hindu who renounces all worldly ambition...
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