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SWAMI KARUNANANDA 



At the age of 40 this Swami retired from the world and traveled far and wide, covering 

 the whole area between Cape Comorin and the Himalayas, with the sole object of meeting 

 Sadhus and sages in the hope of learning at their feet. He became a mraghya mouni, or 

 one living the life of speechless silence and the growing of nails — the one indicative of 

 discipleship, mental calmness, and humility, the other of resistance to the temptations of 

 worldly comfort. 



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