Tales from the Road

This blog offers tales from the road as I live the journey, and also views on life in the world as seen through a spiritual lens.

What is ‘Forever Sadhu’?

In India and Nepal, sadhus are the wandering holy men (there are also, although less commonly, women) who have embraced the aesthetic life of the renunciate. The majority of them belong to one of the several Hindu religious traditions, although many are ‘shivas’, devoting their lives to the worship of Lord Shiva.

I am not literally a sadhu in this sense, although my recent life in many ways conforms to that too, given I have renounced life in the world and am committed to the higher spiritual quest; also that I, too, became a Shiva devotee in March 2020, during a formal ceremony at the Shool Tankeshawar temple in Varanasi.

Sadhu as employed here is more a concept, symbolising the higher pathway of the Pilgrim, one I am now committed to.

 

 

At Kedarnath High Temple, November 2020. It is one of the twelve Jyotirlingas (shrines dedicated to Lord Shiva) in India.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1) Photo courtesy of Sahdev Rana

(2) Photo courtesy of Ajay Singh from Pexels.com