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Sadhu: a seeker for truth (sat); and a person who is practicing spiritual disciplines. Usually this term is applied to monastics.
In this podcast, Abbot George relates his experiences with four monks he met in India that were definitely of the first class. These were:
- The Ganges island swami
- His friend in black
- The Swami who would not be a pet, and his guru who laughed.
Below is a transcription of his encounter with the first sadhu:
The Ganges Island Swami and His Sandy Mansion
At the beginning of 1963, Sri Anandamayi Ma instructed me to find a kutir in either Hardwar or Rishikesh where I could do sadhana. Thanks to Brahmacharini Atmananda, who was known to many pilgrims to India as translator, counselor, friend and smoother of the way, I was put in touch with an ideal devotee, Rai Bahadur Narayan Das who was the chief director and patron of the Sapta Rishi Ashram which I have already mentioned.