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Sanyasi /Sadhus of Varanasi: Detached Souls who are Integral Part of Kashi Culture

Shikha Saxena
4 min readDec 2, 2021

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Living souls with no familial, social, material or earthly bonds

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Indian culture and heritage also embodies living souls with no familial, social, material or earthly bonds known as Sadhus and Sadhvis (female counterparts). There are nearly 3–4 million Sadhus in India. A big ratio of those sanyasi/sadhu of Varanasi: detached souls who are integral part of Kashi culture, reside in Banaras and nearby region of Prayagraj and Allahabad of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Sadhus are holy and religious people who have taken oath with their gurus to lead life of austerity and peace in service of religion and community at large. They keep moving from place to place with no home of their own and accept willingly food donations and alms from homes, community and keep visiting temples and pilgrimage centers and lead life of spirituality.

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Sadhus also called “sanyasi or vairagi”, belong to different “sampradaya”(sects or spiritual groups with…

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Shikha Saxena
Shikha Saxena

Written by Shikha Saxena

A Technical Writer, an artist and blogger by choice. Passionate about reading , writing and editing, NY.http://www.shikhasaxena.com and https://www.dnabox.co/

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