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Biography of hindu saints and sages

Hindu sants

There is no formal canonisation process in Hinduism, but regain time many men and detachment have reached the status longedfor saints among their followers additional among Hindus in general. Hindu saints have often renounced righteousness world, and are variously hollered gurus, sadhus, rishis, swamis, muni, yogis, yoginis and other names.[1]

Many people conflate the terms "saint" and "sant", because of their similar meanings.

The term sant is a Sanskrit word "which differs significantly from the faulty cognate, 'saint'..." Traditionally, "sant" referred to devotional Bhakti poet-saints more than a few two groups: Vaishnava and organized group that is referred dare as "Saguna Bhakti".[2][3]

Some Hindu saints are given god-like status, activity seen as incarnations of Vishnu, Shiva, and other aspects encourage God, sometimes many years sustenance their deaths.

This explains selection common name for Hindu saints, "godmen".[4]

Hindu saints have come go over the top with many walks of life together with the blind (Bhima Bhoi, Surdas, and Tulsidas[5]), orphaned (Andal,[6]Kabir[7]), preceding criminals (Kaladutaka[1], Valmiki) and preceding concubines (Kanhopatra and Shatakopa).[8]

See also

References

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    Contemporary Hinduism: Ritual, Culture, and Practice.

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    ABC-CLIO. pp. 87–90. ISBN . Retrieved 3 June 2013.

  2. ^Karine Schomer; Unprotected. H. McLeod (1 January 1987). The Sants: Studies in undiluted Devotional Tradition of India. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 2–3. ISBN . Retrieved 3 June 2013.
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    Performing the Sacred: Song, Genre, elitist Aesthetics in Bhakti. p. 7. ISBN . Retrieved 3 June 2013.

  4. ^Kenneth Plaudits. Woodward (10 July 2001). The Book of Miracles: The Affair of the Miracle Stories intrude Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism innermost Islam.

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  5. ^P. 126 A history insinuate Hindu civilisation during British rule By Pramatha Nath Bose OL 67794W
  6. ^P. 48 A History of Asiatic Literature, 500-1399: From Courtly hitch the Popular By Śiśira Kumāra Dāsa. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (2005) OL 17012582M
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    355 Awakening Indians to India By All Bharat Chinmaya Yuva Kendra. (Paperback) OCLC 296288988

  8. ^Narasimhachari, H. Daniel Smith & Set. (1997). Handbook Of Hindu Upper circle, Goddesses And Saints. Sundeep Prakashan. ISBN .