[Advaita-l] Knowledge, renunciation and varNASrama rules

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Hari Om, Vidyasankar-ji,

Thanks much for your response elaborating the eligibility criteria based on
the saMnyAsa upanishat and mentioning the other texts on the subject.

praNAm,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Vidyasankar Sundaresan <
svidyasankar at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Praveen,
>
> There is a laghu-saMnyAsa upanishat and a bRhat-saMnyAsa upanishat, as also
> quite a few other texts bearing upon saMnyAsa, such as nArada-parivrAjaka,
> paramahaMsa-parivrAjaka etc. When it comes to restrictions and eligibility
> for
> saMnyAsa and other related issues, I see Sankara bhagavatpAda repeatedly
> turning only to the jAbAla upanishat, as already quoted in this thread
> earlier.
> He cites the same text in the gItAbhAshya also. However, when one reads the
> Anandagiri TIkA or govindAnanda's bhAshyaratnaprabhA, sub-commentaries on
> the sUtrabhAshya, they seem to have some of these other texts in mind.
>
> ...
>


> As far as procedures followed during traditional daSanAmI saMnyAsa
> initiation,
> the yatidharmaprakASa of vAsudevASrama and the yatidharmasangraha of
> viSveSvara sarasvatI give the guidelines. These saMnyAsa manuals (as they
> are described in the catalogs) cite various upanishat texts, including some
> of
> the saMnyAsa upanishat-s, and also the yogavAsishTha and jIvanmuktiviveka.
>
>