The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . and religiousenthusiasm which has led imaginative persons of the Hindoo faith, and, indeed,many of the Christian faith also, to attempt to gain spiritual union vnth God bythe sacrifice of all earthly passions, desires, and objects. Hindoos say that thepresent age is degenerate, and that none now can attain the perfection of thePatanjulic philosophy, but this does not prevent the seclusion and mortificationwhich Jogis practise even now, nor the observances laid down
The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . and religiousenthusiasm which has led imaginative persons of the Hindoo faith, and, indeed,many of the Christian faith also, to attempt to gain spiritual union vnth God bythe sacrifice of all earthly passions, desires, and objects. Hindoos say that thepresent age is degenerate, and that none now can attain the perfection of thePatanjulic philosophy, but this does not prevent the seclusion and mortificationwhich Jogis practise even now, nor the observances laid down for the attainment,in whole or in part, of the holy object. The Jogi represented has scant clothing, and desires no other. His eyes are,closed, and he is telling his beads, repeating the names and attiibutes of God, onwhom he is meditating. A fine powerful man, with an earnest expression ofcountenance; he has abjured caste long ago, and taken upon himself stern vows,which, in a steadfast faith, and heedless of privations and sufferings from pain,from cold, from hunger or fatigue, he will keep, as best he can, till he J OG I. HINDOO DEVOTEE. M OO LT A N. (276) BAIEAGEE. (277) BAIIaAGEES have been described on former occasions {ante No. 144, Vol. III.,and 203, Vol. IV.), and their peculiarities explained. They are from of Hindooism, and all castes except the very lowest—men who are urged byreligious zeal to give np the world, or who find in pilgrimages, and subsistence onthe alms and gifts of the charitable and superstitious, a varied and pleasantexistence. Bairagees are found everywhere, in all parts of India, and evenbeyond its confines. As these itinerant fi-iars wander from place to place, theyare received by the monks of settled mutts or monasteries, and fiirthered on theirway. Others selecting some lonely ravine or cave on a hill side, or the foot ofa huge pcepul or banian tree, live among its gnarled roots, and practise almostinconceivable austerities a
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