"Religion is just an imaginary sun. It always revolves around people before people start to revolve around themselves. " The great Marx once said such a sentence. Since the primitive society, people have created countless religious factions themselves, and many people have become devout believers in their respective religions.

When it comes to religion, the first country that comes to mind is India. India is indeed a country with a strong religious color. Religion has almost penetrated into its social, cultural, political and other aspects, and temples can be seen everywhere in the streets. Therefore, India is worthy of being a religious museum.

The forest of ascetic monks

Today we are going to talk about Indian ascetic monks. An ascetic monk is a popular practice in India, that is, a monk who takes "asceticism" as his practice means. There are about 4 million to 5 million ascetic monks in India, of whom only 10% are women. The word "asceticism" originally meant "heat" in Sanskrit. Because in India, what people need to endure most is the weather with surprisingly high temperatures.

Most of the ascetic monks are unkempt and ragged, holding a trident staff symbolizing Shiva and reciting ancient scriptures in their mouths. They don't care about their appearance, and they think their bodies are evil carriers. They have to shave their hair at the beginning of their practice, and then they have to start a new life after haircut. Moreover, according to the guild regulations, ascetic monks must achieve "three noes", that is, no sexual intercourse, no lying and no killing.

ascetic monk

The origin of ascetic monks has to start from Hinduism, which believes that people need to go through many cycles to enter heaven, and then get the care of God. Some Indians hope to take a shortcut, get the Oracle and the true scriptures through the suffering in this life, and bear all the pain they will endure in the subsequent reincarnation in this life.

The practice methods of each ascetic monk are basically different, but most of them are difficult for us ordinary people to understand. For example, some ascetic monks let themselves lie on a bed full of nails, some hold up their right hands for decades, and some endure the heat and cold. In short, they all agree that the gods will only give themselves scriptures after suffering unbearable pain for ordinary people. The entry age of ascetics is also quite broad, as long as people aged 6-65 are allowed to join ascetics.

An ascetic monk in India has been holding up his right hand for decades.

There are two sects of Indian ascetic monks-the Heaven Sect and the Qing Sect. Tianyi school advocates showing people naked, and they cover the sensitive parts of the lower body with a dirty linen cloth at most. Because they think nudity is the real honesty, they will also smear ashes on their bodies to show their sin, death and rebirth. Tsing Yi schools are conservative. They usually wear yellow cotton clothes.

"legendary" figure

Recently, a "legendary" figure pushed the ascetic monk to the forefront, that is, Pilade, 9 1 year-old, who claimed that he never ate any food after 13 years old. According to him, he began to fast from the first day when he became an ascetic, and he has been fasting for 78 years now.

When the news came out, it caused a heated discussion. There is no doubt that most people are skeptical about this, because it is completely untenable in terms of medicine and common sense of life. Then Pilade went on to explain that this is because he practiced yoga for a long time, and his body and mind have been greatly sublimated, and he gradually made his body no longer rely on material supplies.

At that time, people really called him a "yoga master" because his ascetic practice was inextricably linked with yoga, and he also had a relatively high achievement in the nickname Lalad of yoga. Although practicing yoga does have a good effect on regulating health for us, can practicing yoga really kill the normal demand for food? This incredible thing even caught the attention of the Indian military at the last minute.

The veil of lies was mercilessly unveiled.

Finally, a program aims to dispel the great doubts of ordinary people about this matter as soon as possible. The program negotiated with Pilade, 9 1 year-old, and they decided to put Pilade in a room specially prepared for him 10 day, during which the program group closely observed him. Worried that the staff of the program didn't observe closely enough, the program group secretly installed cameras in the house and took various effective measures to keep Pilade's every move within 24 hours.

In the first few days, according to the observation of the program group, Pilade either meditated or practiced yoga every day. Soon 10 days passed, and Pilade walked out of the house alive and kicking under the gaze of everyone. Although the ironclad fact is in front of us, there are still many people who don't buy it, and some even speculate boldly. This is because Pilade and the program group have colluded with each other for a long time.

Therefore, in order to clear their grievances and prove their innocence, the program group will convince the people. They decided to double-check the surveillance video. At that time, the staff of the program group had no idea that the result of this action would cause such a big storm.

When reviewing the surveillance video again, the program team found a strange phenomenon after repeated comparison: every night, Pilade would make a gesture of kissing his sleeve with his hand. After carefully magnifying the video, everyone found that Pilade had a small amount of food hidden in his wide sleeve. So, in the end, it proved that it wasn't yoga that he said, but a small amount of food kept Pilade alive.

As soon as the surveillance video was exposed, Pilade's big lie was mercilessly exposed to the general public, and in an instant he was spurned by all those who had trusted him. Of course, other real ascetics no longer don't welcome him, because he violated the practice rules of ascetics-lying, which is a sign of great disrespect to the gods. Other ascetic monks were afraid that the gods would implicate themselves by blaming Pilade, so everyone stayed at a respectful distance from them.

In fact, when people believe in religion, the most basic thing is to be honest with themselves and the gods. If he can't even do this, then his faith must be impure and unholy. In particular, self-deception like Pilade is meaningless.

Although it is difficult for us ordinary people to understand the practice of ascetic monks, we outsiders do not have to blindly follow the trend, but we can still critically absorb the spirit of ascetic monks. In modern society, temptation can be seen everywhere. At this time, the "ascetic spirit" has played a huge role. We should exercise self-control, refuse the temptation of material and physical, and keep a pure self, so that we can go further and smoothly in the future!