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Yogi  n.  (Spelt also yokin)  A follower of the yoga philosophy; an ascetic.





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"Yogi" Quotes from Famous Books



... man who was very much engrossed with the New Thought. He saw a great future for me if I would get "in tune with the infinite." I was more than willing. He expounded to me the wonders of the new regime. Would I take lessons in healing? Certainly! He paid an American Yogi a hundred dollars to teach me. I was unaware of the cost. At first it was by correspondence. His chirography looked like a plate of spaghetti. I was instructed how to take a bath and when. The second letter ordered me to sleep with my ...
— From the Bottom Up - The Life Story of Alexander Irvine • Alexander Irvine
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... latter to remain on his throne when he wished to resign it. In older works of plastic art he is sometimes represented by the simple expedient of placing the three gods side by side, sometimes by figuring him as Vishnu in the guise of a Yogi with some of the attributes of the other two; but in modern times he usually appears as a single figure with three heads, one for each of the great gods, and four or six arms bearing their several attributes (usually the rosary and water-pot ...
— Hindu Gods And Heroes - Studies in the History of the Religion of India • Lionel D. Barnett
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... maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation; penance &c 952; fasting &c 956; martyrdom. ascetic; anchoret^, anchorite; martyr; Heautontimorumenos^; hermit &c (recluse) 893; puritan, sabbatarian^, cynic, sanyasi^, yogi. Adj. ascetic, austere, puritanical; cynical; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
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... having heard somebody say, "in other writers we discover this or that thing, but everything exists in Balzac." And in his conversation with Gautier we do not find him praising chastity as a virtue, but extolling the results that may be gotten from chastity as a Yogi might. It is said that English missionaries in India sometimes drive out in their pony chaises to visit a holy man who has left his womenfolk, plentiful food, and a luxurious dwelling for a cave in some lonely ravine. The pony chaise only takes the parson to the mouth ...
— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore
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Words linked to "Yogi" :   ballplayer, philosopher, Yogi Berra, Lawrence Peter Berra, baseball player


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