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'''Vairagi''', also spelt '''Bairagi''', is a [[Hindu denominations|Hindu sect]] who follow [[Vaishnavism]]. [[Celibate]] [[ascetic]]s of Vaishnav Sampradaya are called Vairagi or Bairagi.<ref name=britsadhu>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/515896/sadhu-and-swami Brian Duignan, ''Sadhu and swami'', Encyclopædia Britannica]</ref><ref>Richard Burghart, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1062404?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3Ab23e5c2f3a28aff05dd36c275ffe207a&seq=14#page_scan_tab_contents Wandering Ascetics of the Rāmānandī Sect], p.374, History of Religions<br />
Vol. 22, No. 4, Devotional Religion in India (May, 1983), The University of Chicago Press</ref><ref name=larsonvair>Gerald James Larson (1995), India's Agony Over Religion, State University of New York Press, {{ISBN|978-0791424124}}, page 116</ref><ref>Ramdas Lamb (2008), Theory and Practice of Yoga (Editor: Knut A Jacobsen), Motilal Banarsidass, {{ISBN|978-8120832329}}, pages 317-330</ref> The Bairagis were Vaishnavite mendicants who venerated [[Rama]] or [[Krishna]].<ref name=":12">Singh, Abha. “SATNAMIS OR SADHS: CHANGING IDENTITY OF THE SATNAMIS OF NARNAUL.” ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress'', vol. 61, 2000, pp. 505–06. ''JSTOR'', <nowiki>http://www.jstor.org/stable/44148127</nowiki>. Accessed 6 May 2026.</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
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The ''Vairagi'' term was first adopted by vaishnavas of Ramanandi Sampradaya.<ref name=larsonvair>Gerald James Larson (1995), India's Agony Over Religion, State University of New York Press, {{ISBN|978-0791424124}}, page 116</ref>{{qn|date=August 2021}}<ref>Ramdas Lamb (2008), Theory and Practice of Yoga (Editor: Knut A Jacobsen), Motilal Banarsidass, {{ISBN|978-8120832329}}, pages 317-330</ref>{{clarify|reason=surely the source doesn't take 13 pages to say this - needs more specific page number|date=August 2021}} Later, it became the identity of followers of all four Vaishnava sampradayas.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Miśra|first=Bholānātha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HiQbAAAAMAAJ|title=Hindī santa-sāhitya meṃ pratibimbita samāja, saṃvat 1400 se 1700 Vi|date=1981|publisher=Sāhityavāṇī|pages=140|language=hi}}</ref>{{qn|date=August 2021}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Bairagi Brahmin (caste)]]<br />
* [[Bairagi (raga)]]<br />
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