religious student, accepting rigorous descipline (eg chastity)

A celibate religious student who lives with his teacher and devotes himself to the practice of spiritual discipline.

A religious student vowed to celibacy and abstinence. One who is constantly moving (charin) in Brahman (the Supreme Spirit); one who sees divinity in all.

One who walks in the path of the Brahman

Brahmacari, Brahmacharin One in the first stage of life, a celibate student of Vedic knowledge.

young boy at the first of the four stages of life, the stage of the student

Brãhmin who has been initiated as a renunciant into the holy order of the Swãminãrãyan Fellowship. Such brahmachãris were invested with special priestly authority, i.e., appointed as personal attendants to the murtis within mandirs, and as the performers of other religious rites. One who observes brahmacharya, i.e., leads a life of celibacy. One who is in the first stage of life in the traditional Hindu four stages of life, i.e., brahmacharya stage.

A celibate student devoted to the practice of spiritual discipline; one who follows the first stage of life. See ashrama.