Muni (Saint)
Muni (Sanskrit मुनि , "silent",[1] the "Mauna" - pause) – a term for types of indian sages and hermits or indian ascetics.[2] The sages of this type do not possess the knowledge of the truth of existence on the basis of science texts but through self-realization.[3]
Buddhism
In Buddhism the term "Muni" is used as a title of Gautama Buddha, who being born among the tribe of the Shakyas, is called Sakyamuni (sage of the Shakyas).[4]
Hinduism
- In Rigveda name muni refer to ekstatyków known Vedic Rishi, however prosperous beyond orthodoxy ritualistic Brahmanism [5]
- In a much later work Laghujogawasisztha [6] munich divided into two types :
- kaszthatapaswinów - ascetics permanently residing in stillness
- Jivanmukta - liberated for life in a physical body
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