Word

Parivrajaka

Sanskrit

परिव्रजक

IAST

pārivrājaka

In General

Travelling mendicants are usually called as Parivrajaka. It is reverse of the life of seclusion, but with strict norms not to stay anywhere for more a particular duration. There are some sanyasins who accept this mode of life forever and few others who take this course for some season to make mind strong and keep away from tamasic charactor.

Veda

Paramahamsa Parivrajaka Upanishad talk about the life of privrajaka as: “He is the man of the Vedas, whose mind is one with Brahman, he is always satisfied with whatever he gets, neither respect nor disrespect bothers him, nor do pleasure or sorrow. He does not pay homage to anything or anyone, nor does he expect homage from anything or anyone”.