Celibate Ascetics (Vairagi)

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Vairagi
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Hinduism

Vairagi is a Hindu Sect who follow Vaishnavism. Celibate Ascetics of Vaishnav Sampradaya are called Vairagi or Bairagi. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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History

The Vairagi term was first adopted by vaishnavas of Ramanandi Sampradaya. [3] [ need quotation to verify ] [5] [ clarification needed ] Later, it became the identity of followers of all four Vaishnava sampradayas. [6] [ need quotation to verify ]

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References

  1. ↑ Brian Duignan, Sadhu and swami, Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ↑ Richard Burghart, Wandering Ascetics of the Rāmānandī Sect, p.374, History of Religions Vol. 22, No. 4, Devotional Religion in India (May, 1983), The University of Chicago Press
  3. 1 2 Gerald James Larson (1995), India's Agony Over Religion, State University of New York Press, ISBN   978-0791424124, page 116
  4. ↑ Ramdas Lamb (2008), Theory and Practice of Yoga (Editor: Knut A Jacobsen), Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN   978-8120832329, pages 317-330
  5. ↑ Ramdas Lamb (2008), Theory and Practice of Yoga (Editor: Knut A Jacobsen), Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN   978-8120832329, pages 317-330
  6. ↑ Miśra, Bholānātha (1981). Hindī santa-sāhitya meṃ pratibimbita samāja, saṃvat 1400 se 1700 Vi (in Hindi). Sāhityavāṇī. p. 140.
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