sannyasa

The four are brahmacharya , the celibate student; grihastha , the householder; vanaprastha , the forest-dweller; and sannyasa , the life of the renouncer.

And the fourth is sannyasa , the renouncer, who lets go of everything and lives for moksha alone.

It tells of a brilliant boy who took sannyasa , the renouncer's vow, very young; of a digvijaya , a "conquest of the four directions," in which he walked the length of the subcontinent debating and converting; …

…rasundari and Sri Vidya, presides over the Puri Sampradaya; by taking sannyasa from Tota Puri, Ramakrishna entered the Sri Kula of that sampradaya, having begun in the Kali Kula; in the southern practice the Pa…

…tions, the Bengali Shakta household tradition) or by renunciates (the sannyasa model: the Shankaracharya matha tradition, certain Vamachara sub-lineages, the contemporary Hindu monastic orders affiliated with S…

He had taken sannyasa at the age of eight, against his mother’s objections, after a crocodile in the river had - by his own account, preserved in the traditional hagiographies - clamped onto his leg and refused…

Bharati Tirtha is a sannyasi , a renunciate who has formally taken the Sannyasa initiation that withdraws from householder life, family, possessions, and social participation.

… , Giri , Parvata , Sagara , Vana , Ashrama , the ten suffixes of the Sannyasa tradition Shankara established) who carry the practice forward in their own subsequent teaching.