In 1957 Charan Das, originally an American, lived as a sadhu in India for over twenty years. Cheerful and without cares, he roamed the country for part of the year, going from one holy place to the other, visiting with brother-sadhus. He died a few years ago.
Excerpt: I can't tell you how surprised and entertained I was to read Anne Cushman's piece in Wanderlust about Charan Das, the sadhu from Texas. I too had several encounters with Charan Das over the course of several years. I met him for the first time in Delhi in early 1990 -- he was a friend of the man I was then seeing, and he kept a supply of his books in my friend's room while he was off wandering. Every once in a while, he would turn up in Delhi and visit my friend (and his books). Read the whole article: http://www.salon.com/letters/1998/04/07letters.html
