Many Sadhus ( Hindu monks ) are also celibate as part of their ascetic discipline.

Sadhus are known for the extreme forms of self-denial they occasionally practice.

Many Sadhus, Yogis, or Yoga practitioners keep beards, and represent all situations of life.

Sadhus openly smoke ganja and there are government licensed bhang shops in some regions.

# Sadhu Keertanas ( hymns on Sadhus and sants.

Dreadlocks are associated most closely with the Rastafari movement, but people from many ethnic groups in history before them have worn dreadlocks, including many ancient Semitic and Indo-Aryan peoples of the Near East and Asia Minor, Sadhus of Nepal, India and the Sufi Rafaees, the Māori people of New Zealand, the Maasai and the Oromo of Ethiopia, and the Sufi malangs and fakirs of Pakistan, and medieval Irish Warriors.

The Greeks, the Pacific Ocean peoples, the Naga people and several ascetic groups within various major religions have at times worn their hair in locks, including the monks of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Nazirites of Judaism, Qalandari Sufi's the Sadhus of Hinduism, and the Dervishes of Islam among others.

The Nagas or Naga Sadhus ( Naked Saints ), are often called Indian gymnosophists.

Like Naga Sadhus, the Digambar sect of Jain monks of India, remain unclothed.

Many Sadhus and Tantrikas live in the smashan, some with permanent huts as residences.

In complete contrast to the settled monastic establishment of their day, which concentrated the Buddhist intelligenzia in a limited number of large monastic universities, they adopted the life-style of itinerant mendicants, much the wandering Sadhus of modern India.

File: Girnar Parikrama Sadhus. jpg | Sadhus ( Hindu ascetics ) at Girnar Parikrama

It is said that Hindu Sadhus have a history of paranormal levitation and that when one progresses on the path of spiritualism levitation comes naturally.

Sadhus often wear ochre-colored clothing, symbolizing renunciation.

He started torturing Rishis and Sadhus.

It is still borne by some of the heretic sects of Indian Sadhus.

At that time, present-day Uttarakhand also served as a haunt for Rishis and Sadhus.

The Naga Sadhus, Aghoris and Tantric Bhairav sects smoke it freely as an integral part of their religious practice.

Sadhus ( Hindu ascetics ) still meditate beneath sacred fig trees, and Hindus do pradakshina ( circumambulation ) around the sacred fig tree as a mark of worship.

File: Sadhus in Rajasthan. jpg | Sadhus in Rajasthan

Sadhus, Hindu holy men, gather here and stay from the Ekadashi to full moon day in caves.

In the company of the Sadhus, he travelled through Northern India and finally arrived at Nanded ( in present-day Maharashtra ), situated on the bank of the river Godavari.

The Sufis within these two sects are much more ambiguous about its use as seen in the concept of " Barakah ".

The Sufis greatly depend on the use of ta ' til in their spirituality, though they often also use Cataphatic theology.

Al-Yafi ‘ i, Ibn ‘ Ata ’ Allah and others have declared that they considered Ibn ‘ Arabi a walî, noting that the language which Sufis use is appropri ¬ ate among the experts in its usage and that the knower of Allah (‘ ârif ), when he becomes completely ab ¬ sorbed in the oceans of Unity, might make some statements that are liable to be misconstrued as indwelling ( hulûl ) and union ( ittihâd ), while in reality there is neither indwelling nor union.

Muslims are divided into two groups regarding the issue of sama and the use of music in general: 1 ) Advocates, which are most Sufis and other mystics, and 2 ) Opponents.

Bhang or cannabis is also used amongst Sufis as an aid to spiritual ecstasy.

In Christianity, there is the silence of contemplative prayer such as centering prayer and Christian meditation ; in Islam, there are the wisdom writings of the Sufis who insist on the importance of finding silence within.

Sufi whirling ( or Sufi spinning ) is a form of Sama or physically active meditation which originated among Sufis, and which is still practiced by the Sufi Dervishes of the Mevlevi order.

:( Commenting on the yogi manner of meditation ): " However I know that this ravishment and the way to enter it are the great mystery of the cabal of the Yogis, as it is of the Sufis.

Sufis practice rituals ( dhikr, sema ) using body movement and music to achieve the state.

Basirah ( بصيرة ) is an Arabic word meaning insight, discernment, and perceptivity when used by Sufis to denote the ability to directly perceive a transcendental truth, or meaning dark, sad, and frowning when referring to non-believers on Yaum al-Qiyamah.

Ibn ' Ata ' Allah in Lata ' if al-Minan ( 1: 84-98 ) states that there is consensus among the Sufis that Khiḍr is alive.

But Rāzī, who like Ghazālī adhered to the Sunnite branch of Islam and followed the Ash ' arite theology, focused his attention on the exploration and analysis of the visionary states experienced by the Sufis in the course of their mystical journey.

' For Sufis, this means devotion to others through complete forgetfulness of one's own concerns.

There are, however, certain esoteric and mystical schools of thought, present in many faiths — Sufis in Islam, Gnostics in Christianity, Advaitan Hindus, Zen Buddhists, as well as several non-specific perspectives developed in new age philosophy — which hold that all humans are in essence divine, or unified with the Divine in a non-trivial way.

The Mewlewī Sufis, also known as Whirling Dervishes, believe in performing their dhikr in the form of Sama.

According to Ellenblum's interpretation the inhabitants of the Kingdom ( Latin Christians living alongside native Greek and Syrian Christians, Shia and Sunni Arabs, Sufis, Bedouin, Turks, Druze, Jews, and Samaritans ) all had major differences between each other as well as with the crusaders.

While recuperating at Youpon Dunes, a home owned by Elizabeth Patterson, in Myrtle Beach, he worked on the charter for a group of Sufis, which he named Sufism Reoriented.

At the end of this sahavas Meher Baba gave the completed manuscript of his book God Speaks to two attending American Sufis, Lud Dimpfl and Don E. Stevens, for editing and publication in America.

Some Sufis whirl.

The Sufis were practitioners of the esoteric mystic traditions within an Islam at certain point sufism defined by the sufi master or Pir ( Sufism ) or fakeer or Wali in the language of the people by dancing and singing and incorporating various philosophies, theologies, ideologies and religions together.

see many more famous sufis here List of Sufis.

Sufis believe they are practicing Ihsan ( perfection of worship ) as revealed by Gabriel to Muhammad, " Worship and serve Allah as you are seeing Him and while you see Him not yet truly He sees you.

Classical Sufis were characterised by their attachment to dhikr ( a practice of repeating the names of God ) and asceticism.

Sufis have spanned several continents and cultures over a millennium, at first expressed through Arabic, then through Persian, Turkish and a dozen other languages.

Modern Sufis often perform dhikr after the conclusion of prayers.

Sufis generally hold to a much more inclusivist and tolerant view of other faiths and religious systems than traditional Sunni and Shi ' a Islam.

Beside followers of Sikhism, Guru Nanak is revered by Hindus and Muslim Sufis across the Indian subcontinent.

Besides arguing that Arlequin be a character of Sufi origins, Idries Shah also wrote a chapter of The Sufis on the sufi influence over Saint Francis, arguing him having adopted the patched robe as his only garment was a clear example of a sufi influence ( Shah, I.

The Sufis The Octagon Press: 1999 p. 228 )

A major campaign against hashish-eating Sufis was conducted in Egypt in the 11th and 12th centuries resulting among other things in the burning of fields of cannabis.

The practice of khalwah is regularly followed by the Sufis, with the permission and the supervision of a Sufi authority.

The Sufis base the assigning of forty days of khalwa period on the forty days Allah had appointed for Musa ( Moses ) as a fasting period before speaking to him, as mentioned in different chapters in the Qur ' an.

The Lyab-i Hauz ensemble, surrounding the pond on three sides, consists of the Kukeldash Madrasah ( 1568 – 1569 ), the largest in the city ( on the north side of the pond ), and of two religious edifices built by Nadir Divan-Beghi: a khanaka ( 1620 ), or lodging-house for itinerant Sufis, and a madrasah ( 1622 ) that stand on the west and east sides of the pond respectively.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan () ( October 13, 1948 – August 16, 1997 ), a renowned Pakistani musician, was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis.

Pakistan: Vocal Art of the Sufis, Vol 2-Qawwali.