sannyasa
संन्यास saṃnyāsaRenunciation; the formal giving up of household life for the pursuit of liberation. A sannyasi is one who has taken it.
Where this term appears
- The Four Ashramas: the stages of life Essentials
The four are brahmacharya , the celibate student; grihastha , the householder; vanaprastha , the forest-dweller; and sannyasa , the life of the renouncer.
- The Four Aims of Life (Purusharthas) Essentials
And the fourth is sannyasa , the renouncer, who lets go of everything and lives for moksha alone.
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
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; …
- Devipuram And The Open-Access Model Treatise
Prahlada Sastry had taken the Sannyasa name Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati .
- The Bengal Renaissance And Ramakrishna Treatise
…va Vaishnava devotional practice under Tota Puri , through the formal Sannyasa initiation that made him a renunciate in 1865, through the Advaita Vedanta practices that culminated in his recognition of nirguna …
- The Dispute Frame Treatise
…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 …
- The Girl at the Library Door Treatise
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…
- The Householder Versus Renunciate Question Treatise
Bharati Tirtha is a sannyasi — a renunciate who has formally taken the Sannyasa initiation that withdraws from householder life, family, possessions, and social participation.