तपस्वी (en. Ascetic)

The presiding element in a Math is an 'ascetic' or a religious teacher, who together with his disciples and co-disciples form spiritual family.

They lost their patience and cursed ascetic to loose his linga.

In an interview, his sister Gretl Stonborough-Wittgenstein says that their grandfather's "strong, severe, partly ascetic Christianity" was a strong influence on all the Wittgenstein children.

In New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of English Language, Deluxe Encyclopedic Edition, at page 53, the word 'ascetic' has been described as under.

Narendra Modi had come to Belurmath to become an ascetic in adolescence, but Swami Atamsthanand Maharaj had dismissed his request saying that he needs somewhere else.

Narendra Modi had come to Belurmath to become an ascetic in adolescence, but Swami Atamsthanand Maharaj had dismissed his request saying that he needs somewhere else.

That day marked Vivekananda's complete spiritual awakening and attracted him to an ascetic way of life.