Pushkar: portrait of sadhu (santone) along the Mont Abu Road. The sadhu (from the sanscrito "man well; sant'uomo") it chooses to live a holiness life. The sadhu they are you anticipate in India from thousands of years; perhaps from the prehistory in which the their role he would have been similar to that of the sciamano. One generally considers that they form 0.5% of the Indiana population; that is quattro-cinque million people. The sadhu they are of renouncing; they cut every tie with their family; do not possess nothing or little things; are dressed with a longhi; a tunica; of color saffron for the shivaiti ones; yellow or white for the visnuiti ones; that the holiness symbolizes; and sometimes with some necklace; they do not possess nothing and they pass their life to move itself on the roads of India and the Nepal; nourishing itself of gifts of the devout people. In their search of the absolute; the sadhu they practice of the tapas; magical recitazione of mantras; rituals; control of the breath; yoga unifying the body and the spirit; sexual abstinence; ballot of Hush; meditation or mortificazioni; those mortificazioni that Buddha will refuse like illusory in order defining its life terrena. The practical one of the tapas stretches to increase their spiritual energy affording it to reach a state of seed-divinity. The sadhu shivaiti cospargono their body with the ash; symbol of died and rebirth. to image and likeness of Shiva; they carry the extremely long hair. The arinascita devozione of the sadhu. to image and likeness of Shiva; they carry the extremely long hair. The devozione of the sadhu to Shiva or Visnu is recognized from the traditional signs that sometimes carry on own forehead and from the color of their garments. 8353 India To cite in the credit: Fototeca Gilardi/Raffaella Milandri