{"product_id":"banaras-an-afternoon-with-sadhus-9789370898622","title":"Banaras: An Afternoon with Sadhus","description":"Banaras: An Afternoon with Sadhus is a luminous, intimate travel-spiritual narrative that follows a single afternoon among India’s itinerant renunciants—men who abandoned the identities that once “defined and imprisoned” them.\r\n\r\nUnder a shifting patch of shade at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Ghat, a small circle forms: chai is poured, chillums are shared, and life stories surface—simple, brutal, funny, tender.\r\n\r\nFrom there, the book opens into bigger questions: What does it mean to reject the modern script? What kind of courage (or rupture) does renunciation require? And what does “freedom” cost—to the one who leaves, and to the ones left behind?\r\n\r\nAlong the way, you encounter the sadhus as they are: radically sober, materially unburdened, and—strangely—joyful in the plain fact of being.\r\n\r\nWhy Should Readers Pick This Book?\r\nA rare, grounded look at sadhus: A sadhu isn’t a caste or a label—it’s a way of life, open to anyone beyond fixed doctrine.\r\nAtmospheric Banaras storytelling: The ghats turn into a living stage—heat, shade, chai, strangers, and sudden honesty.\r\nMinimalism with spiritual muscle: Not “declutter culture,” but lived renunciation—radical sobriety, anti-accumulation, joy without excess.\r\nBig questions, no sermons: It holds both the thrill of leaving everything behind and the moral unease that can follow.\r\nFor seekers, travelers, philosophers-at-heart: If roles, obligations, or ambition have ever felt tight, this opens a door.\r\nKey Themes\r\nRenunciation as the “wild card”: the leap into a life with no address, no name, and no safety net.\r\nRadical sobriety \u0026amp; conscious living: simplicity as an ecological and spiritual stance.\r\nLiberation in this lifetime: the idea of jīvan-mukta—freedom from inner and outer burdens.\r\nThe human cost of freedom: what abandonment can mean—especially when a man leaves as husband and father.\r\nTransgression \u0026amp; fearlessness: Aghori life, “no fear, no rule,” and the uneasy border between taboo and transcendence.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 January 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePage count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Height 127 mm; Width 197 mm; Thickness 9 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fingerprint! Publishing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9789370898622\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Patrick Levy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50208027476218,"sku":"9789370898622","price":3.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/9789370898622.jpg?v=1788233584","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/banaras-an-afternoon-with-sadhus-9789370898622","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}