amrita-saras

Updated: May 21, 2025

The Sannyasis and the Swamis are usually Sikhs from the Punjab, and monotheists. They despise idol-worshipers, and have nothing to do with them, though the latter very often call themselves by their names. Our new friend was a native of Amritsar, in the Punjab, and had been brought up in the "Golden Temple," on the banks of Amrita-Saras, the "Lake of Immortality."

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan