Religion advocates that we must renounce all worldly material things and become ascetics. |
Brahmins and ascetics play their part, but their roles are secondary to those of Ayodhya's ruling family, and the monkey and demon warriors. |
Mystics and ascetics have been telling us for ages that the goal of life is to learn how to die. |
In his time, ascetics and recluses again made an attempt to enter the Guru's flock. |
Here was a maximalist in a landscape of ascetics, an inclusivist in love with the dictionary and world. |
Missionaries in the African churches, and probably elsewhere, were normally unmarried ascetics living in the utmost simplicity. |