Sanyasa symbolizes the conception of the mystic life in Hinduism where a person is now integrated into the spiritual world after wholly giving up material life. It is generally translated as renunciate in English. One who walks this path is known as a sannyasi, sannyasin or sanyasi. The sanyasi lives without possessions, practises yoga meditation, and prays to his or her conception of God in the hopes of ultimately achieving samadhi (enlightenment) and, subsequently, moksha (liberation). This article is about the Hindu religion; for other meanings of the word, see Hindu (disambiguation). ... Yoga (from Sanskrit yuj, meaning yoke) is an ancient family of spiritual practices that originated in India. ... Here the underlined vowels carry the Vedic Sanskrit udātta pitch accent. ... Samadhi is a term used in Hindu and Buddhist yogic meditation. ... Moksha (Sanskrit: मोक्ष, liberation) or Mukti (Sanskrit: विमुक्ति, release) refers, in general, to liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth. ...

"Sanyasa" is a Sanskrit word. The word "nyasa" means "path". "San" is a prefix that denotes "integration". it is generally used to denote a particular phase of life. In this phase of life, the person develops vairagya or a state of determination and disillusionment with material life. He thus renunciates all worldly thoughts and desires, and spends the rest of his life in spiritual contemplation. It is the last in the four phases of a man, namely, brahmacharya, grihastha, vanaprastha, and finally sanyasa, as prescribed by Manusmriti for the Dhwija castes, in the Hindu system of life. Sanskrit ( संस्कृतम्) is a classical language of India and a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. ... Brahmacharya is a Sanskrit word. ... Pronunciation Gri as the Gru in Gruel Has as the Hus in Husk tha as in thaw Word Root This is a Sanskrit word. ... A vanaprastha (from Sanskrit vana, forest, and prus, dwelling) is a person who is living in the forest as a hermit after partially giving up material desires. ... The Manu Smriti or Laws of Manu, is one of the eighteen Smritis of the Dharma Sastra (or laws of righteous conduct), written c. ... Dwija, literally means one who is born twice in Sanskrit. ...

Orthodox Hindus will generally not accept the claims of the followers of Rajneesh to be sannyasins, and may even find this claim insulting. Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain (December 11, 1931 - January 19, 1990), better known during the 1970s as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and later as Osho was an Indian spiritual teacher or guru. ...

Having succeeded in overcoming all sensual affections and desires, and in acquiring perfect equanimity towards everything around him, the hermit has fitted himself for the final and most exalted order, that of devotee or religious mendicant. As such, he has no further need of either mortifications or religious observances; but with the sacrificial fires reposited in his mind, he may devote the remainder of his days to meditating on the divinity. Taking up his abode at the foot of a tree in total solitude, with no companion but his own soul (jiva), clad in a coarse garment, he should carefully avoid injuring any creature or giving offence to any human being that may happen to come near him. Once a day, in the evening, when the charcoal fire is extinguished and the smoke no longer issues from the fire-places, when the pestle is at rest, when the people have taken their meals and the dishes are removed, he should go near the habitations of men, in order to beg what little food may suffice to sustain his feeble frame. Ever pure of mind he should thus bide his time, as a servant expects his wages, wishing neither for death nor for life, until at last his soul is freed from its fetters and absorbed into the atman, the impersonal self-existent Brahman. A hermit (from the Greek erēmos, signifying desert, uninhabited, hence desert-dweller) is a person who lives to some greater or lesser degree in seclusion and/or isolation from society. ... Meditation usually refers to a state of extreme relaxation and concentration, in which the body is generally at rest and the mind quieted of surface thoughts. ... The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — particular to a unique living being. ... In Hinduism and Jainism, a jiva is the immortal essence of a living being, subject to maya. ... Beginning with Vedantic Hindu philosophy, the Ātman — Sanskrit (masculine nominative singular: Ātmā) is regarded as an underlying metaphysical self. ...

External links

• Articles on aspects of Sannyasa, Vairagya, and Brahmacharya
• 'The Song of the Sannyasin', poem by Swami Vivekananda