Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Groups

    Ascetic

    “yati”

    group · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages

    ascetic · forest-dweller · hermit · renouncer · sage · sannyāsin · the ascetics of godliness · vānaprastha · yati

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    the ascetics1 mention

    Letters (Greek)

    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 …
    letter 2

    in the texts

    ManusmṛtiAncient · Sanskrit

    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.
    chapter 6
    This Dharma has been declared to you for ascetics of controlled soul;
    chapter 6
    That twice-born who becomes a renouncer by this orderly method, he, having shaken off his sin here, attains the supreme Brahma.
    chapter 6

    LettersLate Antiquity · Greek

    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 …
    letter 2

    VīramitrodayaAncient · Sanskrit

    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.
    chapter 1
    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.
    chapter 1
    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*).
    chapter 1