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ascetic ADJ

ascetic <an ascetic; ascetics> N

ascetic ADJ

ascetic N REL

ascetic ADJ

ascetic REL

ascetic ADJ REL

ascetic (al)

become an ascetic VB

lead an ascetic life VB

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In it he narrates his personal experiences with many great ascetics whom he met during his extensive travels, and repeats the edifying stories which these ascetics related to him.
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Evil, the monstrous product of impotent hate, exists only for the ascetics, the jackals.
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These austerities with five other ascetics did not lead to progress in meditation, liberation (moksha), or the ultimate goal of nirvana.
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This was considered less of a problem in a time of back-breaking toil, famine, and a greater acceptanceeven desirabilityof plumpness; only the poor or sick, and devout ascetics, were thin.
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The fame of the three ascetics, however, brought many visitors and distractions from their spiritual struggles, causing them to look else where.
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All four had wanted to become ascetics and despite early resistance from their parents were allowed to so.
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But they came not merely as ascetics, but as improvers.
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Asceticism involves a life of privation that lacks certain comforts and luxuries and early ascetics were often characterized by their poverty.
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He lived lifelong on a meagre income but spent most of it in serving poor, his guests and monks and ascetics.
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They are beautiful and libidinous, and specially delighted in tempting ascetics in their meditations.
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