Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH SADHUS, GOOD.AND BAD 1. The Swinging Bairagi. 2. The Sanyasi Swatni Bhaskaranauda of Benares. 3. Gareeb Das, an Urdhabahu Bairagi. 4. A Yogi who protected Amritsar from the Plague. 5. A Brahmachari from the Tamil Country. 6. A Sadhu of European Descent at Simla. 7. A Naked Sanyasi and his Companion, a Princess of B . 8. A Sadhu of Royal Lineage, Prince Bir Bhanu Singh. 9. A Sadhu who had found God. 10. A Sun.worshipping Bairagi. 11. Yogis and Pious Women. 12. A pseudo.Sadhu and his Adventures. 13. Yogi Guests. 14. A Sadhu as Restaurateur. 15. A Saint in Chains. not object to a closer and, as it were, more personal acquaintance with these ascetics, such as is afforded by the following narratives of actual interviews with them, and of trustworthy accounts of their doings carefully sifted and punctually noted down by me as soon as the facts were placed in my possession. 1. The Swinging Bairagi. Near a large tank known as Ralan Chitnd's talao, in the neighbourhood of a group of Hindu temples in Lahore, and under some fine old peepul trees, two or three hundred people, mostly Hindus of both sexes, were assembled one fine evening in November, most of them attentively watching a palanquin which had been placed on the high platform of a samadh or cenotaph erected to the memory of a Hindu lady by her wealthy son. The screens of the palanquin were drawn back, but I could see nothing within until I approached quite near, when I discovered the emaciated figure of an almost naked man sitting with his knees drawn up against his chin in an attitude common enough in India, but one which the European would find it rather difficult to imitate. Down the length of the palanquin was a board, closely studded with blunt...
