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but accept ultimate equality among men. Varkaris bow in front of each other because "everybody is Brahma" and stressed individual sacrifice, forgiveness, simplicity, peaceful co-existence, compassion, non-violence, love and humility in social life. The
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Warkari men may be known by their three upright brow lines, a black between two white gopichandan or white clay and sandal-paste lines which is also popular with other Vaishnavaite devotees. Varkaris look upon God as the Ultimate Truth and ascertained grades of values in social life
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Turner, Victor. “The Center out There: Pilgrim’s Goal.”
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Devotional Tradition of Pakistan
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Warkari people undertake an annual pilgrimage called
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1617:Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
1543:Mokashi, Digambar Balkrishna (1987).
1434:. Wai Maharashtra: Marathi Vishwakosh
1407:. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 3–4.
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1608:Iwao, Shima (June–September 1988).
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