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Nanak, the founder of the Sikh faith, pilloried the useless asceticism of the yogis: "To fast, to endure great heat and cold--all these works of penance are works of dark ignorance," he explained.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 3 : India Part 2 > # 560