ashram

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Oddly, the ashram was about the only variety of spiritual-related site we were unable to visit on one particularly wide-ranging day -- seems you have to have reservations for the expensive and paranoiacally secured facility.

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  1. noun Hinduism A usually secluded residence of a religious community and its guru.

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  • The ashram was an acre or two, closed in by a high wall with plaster peeling off it. —  The Sergeant’s Cat and other stories - Janwillem van de Wetering
  • Isis is going to be the next leader of the Luskentyrians and much of the novel is taken up with her adventures outside their Scottish ashram --first in an attempt to bring back her cousin Morag, who appears to have strayed from the fold, and then to clear her own name when power-jockeying in the ashram has her banished. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 02 - February 1996
  • The ashram was plainly furnished; everything was simple, clean, and utilitarian. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • Spending one night as guests of the ashram, our party set out the following afternoon for Calcutta. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • I talked to him for several minutes in the bright outdoors Come this evening to the ashram,' he said I am here! —  Autobiography of a Yogi
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  1. Sanskrit āśramaḥ : ā-, to + śramaḥ, toil, penance, austerity (from śramati, he toils, practices austerity).
 

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