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stands for "self"), and can roughly be translated as "he/she who knows and is master of himself/herself". The term is often attributed to someone who has achieved mastery of a particular
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As a direct form of address, or as a stand-in for a swami's name, it is often rendered
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Swami (disambiguation)

[sʋaːmiː]
Sanskrit
romanized
Hinduism
ascetic
path of renunciation
monastic order
Vaishnavas
self
yogic system
bhakti
Hindu gods
Oxford English Dictionary
Hindi
Gaudiya Vaishnavism
sannyasi
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
Goswami
Bairagi
Haryana
Uttar Pradesh
Rajasthan
Bengali
[ˈʃami]
husband
Malay
Khmer
Assamese

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