Ascetic
“yati”
group · 4 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
ascetic · forest-dweller · al-zuhhād · hermit · renouncer · sage · sannyāsin · the ascetics · the ascetics of godliness · vānaprastha
spoken of as
1 expressionThe ascetics2 mentions
Letters (Greek) · Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab (Arabic)
But what dawn is to others, midnight is to the ascetics of godliness, since the stillness of night especially grants the soul leisure, when neither eyes nor ears convey harmful sounds or sights to the heart, but the mind alone, by itself, is with God, correcting itself by the memory of its sins, setting itself limits for the avoidance of evil, and seeking from God His co-working toward the complet …
in the texts
Manusmṛti
The third life-stage (āśrama): a twice-born who has retired to the forest with sacred fire to practice austerity.
26 // He should gather alms for his subsistence from Brāhmaṇa ascetics alone, or from other twice-born householders who are forest-dwellers.
That twice-born who becomes a renouncer by this orderly method, he, having shaken off his sin here, attains the supreme Brahma.
The celibate student, the householder, the forest-dweller, and the ascetic—these four separate *āśramas* originate from the householder.
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The renunciants, named both as a source of the preacher's edifying tales and as a class the letter's addressee is accused of detesting.
It needs a good share in learning, and it calls for a sound acquaintance with Qurʼānic exegesis (*al-tafsīr*) and for a large stock of the tales of the righteous — the jurists, the poor and the ascetics;
How long will you keep it as your intimate and detest the ascetics!
Letters
Practitioners of the ascetic discipline Basil describes.
But what dawn is to others, midnight is to the ascetics of godliness, since the stillness of night especially grants the soul leisure, when neither eyes nor ears convey harmful sounds or sights to the heart, but the mind alone, by itself, is with God, correcting itself by the memory of its sins, setting itself limits for the avoidance of evil, and seeking from God His co-working toward the complet …
Vīramitrodaya
Renunciant class subject to a distinct fast-day rule from householders throughout the passage.
The mention of 'ascetic' (*yati*) is indicative of those other than householders, because it is proper to use metaphorical interpretation for a secondary term.
The mention of 'ascetic' in the *Padma Purāṇa* refers to an ascetic who is desirous of liberation and has taken the vow of celibacy, a forest-dweller, who is similar to an ascetic in his observance of rules.
Hemādri, however, says that in this second case, the verses enjoining a fast on a pure Ekādaśī apply to a householder (*gṛhastha*), while those enjoining a fast on a pure Dvādaśī apply to an ascetic (*yati*).