PENANCE OF HOLY MAN
METHODS OF SELF-TOKT'J’dE. Tho life of a holy man. in India is not always a bod of roses; often his bed is one of nails. Holy men are plentiful in India. Anybody can be a sadliu by growing long hair, smearing his body with as'-t-s and paint, and cultivating a iar-auay look. Consequentiy they are so numerous that the genuine ones among them must do something to impress the multitude. . Many of them fast for long periods. Others bury their heads in tho ground. Some make Jong pilgrimages by rolling themselves along the ground, hut most of them choose tho bed of nails as a means of paying penance for the past, or of acquiring merit for the iuture. A sadliu who was photographed at his midday halt had suspended his trolley-bed from tho branch of a tree, as befits one who was already halfway to heaven. Ho had been sitting on his perambulating bed of nails for seven years, traversing the banks of tho holy rivers of India. Ho hoped to continue his tortuous way until there "was no more holy ground to cover or until his soul passed over tho border.
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Evening Star, Issue 19662, 15 September 1927, Page 11
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197PENANCE OF HOLY MAN Evening Star, Issue 19662, 15 September 1927, Page 11
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