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Example sentences for "gurus"

Lexicographically close words:
gurly; gurnard; gurnards; gurt; guru; gush; gushed; gusher; gushes; gushing
  1. And who shall deny some of these gurus a supernatural power?

  2. Presently from the temple came the gurus or priests, bearing the idol.

  3. Allaha it shall be, without a meddling Ramabai; back to the gurus who love you so!

  4. What with her crazes for Christian Science, and Uric Acid and Gurus and Mediums, one wonders if she is quite sane.

  5. The hymns in the Adi Granth are arranged not according to the gurus or bhagats who compose them, but according to rags or musical measures.

  6. After the hymns of the gurus are found the hymns of the bhagats under their several musical measures.

  7. Like the Madhvas, they are scrupulous as to the worship of their gurus (acharyas), without whose intervention they believe that they cannot obtain beatitude.

  8. The Nandavariki Brahmans are, in fact, gurus or priests to the Devengas.

  9. If no purchaser can be found, make a virtue of necessity, and send it as a present to the nearest temple or mutt (religious institution), where the Gurus know how to appease the wrath of the Deity with daily offerings of fruits and flowers.

  10. These names were obtained from one of the eight swamis or gurus of the Udipi math, and according to him they have no totemistic force at the present day.

  11. They are the constituted gurus of the temple priests, and are the final authorities in all matters of temple ritual.

  12. It is distinctly prescribed that a Brahman should formally conclude the Brahmachari asrama, and that presents or dakshina to the gurus should be the crowning act.

  13. They were the gurus (preceptors) of the fighting Nayars.

  14. First, you think the gurus actually are making the outworlders kill themselves?

  15. He wondered if the fanatic gurus ever thought of that.

  16. While the gurus are stewing it over, the Denebians could have prepared this shipment here--whatever it is--for departure.

  17. Most of the gurus retired entirely from active life.

  18. The gurus of Ophiuchus IX were shown what had been taking place in the name of friendship between themselves and Deneb and in the name of isolation.

  19. The gurus are dirty, careless about their bodies--but terribly arrogant.

  20. The gurus offered their own unique solution, of course.

  21. Our gurus did not broadcast the death-wish to outworlders until the Denebians came.

  22. But thus had the gurus spoken for four thousand years, on Earth and on Ophiuchus.

  23. The gurus have great knowledge of the mystical, but externally they're naive.

  24. It's mental suggestion, on a scale only our gurus are capable of.

  25. Thus the gurus and their congregations have made the history of their deities, recasting the gods ever anew in the mould of man's hopes and strivings and ideals.

  26. As sagely and as solemnly did the Pandits and the Gurus reprove the thief and the atheist, but they did not dispense the words of wisdom in equal proportions.

  27. The Pandits and Gurus were long before they would consent to attend what they considered dealings with Yama (the Devil).

  28. At Rudri near Dhamtari on the Mahanadi one of the Gurus is buried, and a religious fair is held there.

  29. Brahmans and members of the religious orders, Bairagis and Gosains, are the Gurus of ordinary Hindus.

  30. Some of the Salewars are Vaishnavas and others Lingayats: the former employ Ayawars for their gurus or spiritual preceptors and are sometimes known as Tirmendar; while the Lingayats, who are also called Woheda, have Jangams as their priests.

  31. They are the gurus or spiritual preceptors of the middle and lower castes, and though their teaching may be of little advantage, it perhaps quickens and maintains to some extent the religious feelings of their clients.

  32. The caste employ Brahmans for the performance of their ceremonies, and also as their gurus or spiritual preceptors.

  33. So far as the Sikhs have a priesthood, they are, moreover, the priests or gurus of the Sikhs.

  34. The Jangams are the priests or gurus of the Sivite sect of Lingayats.

  35. The Satanis play an important part in the social life of the Vaishnavites of the district, and are the gurus of some of the cultivating and other classes.

  36. The number of Brahman Sanyasis is very small; they are chiefly the Gurus or High Priests of the different sects.

  37. Their gurus are known as Paravasthuvaru--a corruption of Paravasu Deva, whose figure is on the vimana of the Srirangam temple, and who must be visited before entering the principal sanctuary.

  38. In the sects that worship Kṛishṇa the Gurus are frequently called Gosain (Goswami).

  39. Another feature of Hindu sects is the extravagant respect paid to Gurus or teachers.

  40. He appointed his son Arjun as Guru in 1581, just before his death: the succession was made hereditary and henceforth the Gurus became chiefs rather than spiritual teachers.

  41. The latter are householders, the name having lost its monastic sense, but they have the exclusive right of officiating and acting as Gurus and thus form a married clergy.

  42. Kabir is a child of Ram and Allah," he says, "and accepteth all Gurus and Pirs.

  43. The Gurus then dig a hole, and in it light the sacred fire of sandal-wood, which must be kindled by the friction of two pieces of wood.

  44. Almost all the Linga Balijas of North Arcot are traders, who speak Canarese and are immigrants from Mysore, in which their gurus (religious preceptors) live, and whither they still refer their caste disputes.

  45. They have Brahman gurus (religious preceptors), who reside at Srirangam, Tirupati, and other places.

  46. The caste, like that of the Satanis, is reinforced by idle members of the lower Sudra classes, who, being branded by the gurus of Tirupati and other shrines, become Dasaris thereby.

  47. The name Guse or Gusei is applied to Oriya Brahmans owing to their right of acting as gurus or family priests.

  48. Some Dasaris are servants under Vaishnava Brahmans, who act as gurus to various castes.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gurus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.