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Allahabad

India

A sadhu rests. Cloaked in sackcloth and ashes, this man has renounced the material possessions of the word -- except for a few brass bowls and icons of his gods, which he uses to beg for a few pennies.

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suze writes:

To become such a devotee, to renounce all material forms of living but that which are the least of essentials, still brings no less suffering, ..and becomes a test of physical endurance unfathomable, in a state where poverty is the norm....Alms to devotees may be quite scarce indeed. Devotees pray for all, not just themselves, and give of their lives in many ways. I daresay the bowls are not kept as beggars bowls, but as bowls for rice when it appears, and even then...some will be offered first off to Vishnu, and Krsna, not just hungrily consumed.

January 1, 2006