Shishya

Origin

, from , from , from .

Full definition of shishya

Noun

1. In Indian traditions: a disciple who receives spiritual knowledge from a guru.
• 20 August 2018, Ruchir Joshi, Free Spirit, That winter night, everybody was drinking rum that we, the visiting party, had brought with us from Calcutta. One of the Babaji's young shishyas had got into a close and personal tangle with the liquor, drinking faster than everybody else, and the old guru was admonishing him about overdoing the Old Monk before sending him off to bed.

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