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Sadhana

Sadhana

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A female name used in India
  • proper noun
translation icon : Sadhana
  • Sadhana workshops

Examples

  • "The intent of sadhana," said Tim (that is, study), "is to establish the experience of samadi, and to do this by removing the kleshas."

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  • Nevertheless, most professional Baul-Fakir singers in West Bengal are labeled as Baul or Fakir, and many insist that musical practice itself is an important form of Baul-Fakir sadhana.

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  • Our most recent email from Robert Moses, leader of our upcoming sadhana yatra to India, began with this:

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  • Sadhana Vallabh is an accomplished Gujarati home cook.

  • Sociologist Sadhana Bery, whose children attended a school where the students were planning to put on a play about slavery, wrote a 2014 article for an education journal that described that situation in detail.

  • Sadhana Patel recently graduated with honors from her university.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Sadhana comes from Sanskrit, built on the root sadh meaning 'to achieve' or 'to succeed' and the ending -ana which turns it into a word for a 'way' or 'practice'. That's why Sadhana often suggests steady effort and accomplishment, and is used as a girl's name in India.