SANYASA YOGA

THERE ARE MAINLY FOUR ASHRAMAS --
1) BRAHMACHARYA
2) GRAHASTHA
3) VANAPRASTHA
4) SANYASA

SANYASA ASHRAMA IS OF 3 TYPES --
1) KARMA SANYASA
2) JNANA SANYASA
3) PARAMAHAMSA, also called AVADHOOTHA

SHRI SHANKARA BHGAVATHPADA with Danda

Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati,of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam wearing Saffron Clothes with Danda

BHAGVAN RAMANA MAHARSHI wearing KAUPEENA 
with DANDA,KAMANDALA & TIGER SKIN

SWAMI SIVANANDA wearing Saffron Clothes 
with KAMANDALA & LEOPARD SKIN

AVADHOOTHA SWAMI NITHYANANDA
WEARING KAUPEENA WITHOUT DANDA & KAMANDALA

ISHWARA  TEACHING  SHANMUGA

SANYSA ASHRAMA --

The person who wants to take SANYASA,should have achieved 
dispassion in wife,children,property,gold,money,sex and has 
control of mind & body.He had taken vow going round fire, to 
protect his wife at the time of marriage is going to leave her as 
his wife & view her as his mother, before taking SANYASA.He 
removes his sacred thread & bunch of hair behind head(shika) 
to avoid KARMA BANDANA(entrapment in rituals).
Preshocharana is performed alongwith swa-pinda pradana. 
Alongwith Mahavakya, danda & kamandala is given. 
With the sole aim of achieving Libertion(MOKSHA),renouncing 
--all activity to possess/gain anything in return, all his 
possessions he takes SANYASA.

KARMA SANYASA --

                To protect himself from wild animals,creatures,
insects,snakes.& scorpions he uses a DANDA(stick) made of 
PALASHA TREE having six knots.From OM kara 7 swaras are 
born & the world is born.Always repeating12000 OM kara japa 
per day,bathing 3 times a day, wearing saffron colour clothes,
holding a jug of water-KAMANDALA,being clean, begging food,
without himself preparing food,always praying to GOD, living in 
a temple alone is called KARMA SANYASA. The SANYASI 
should be true to all requirements of SANYASA in thought, talk 
& action.

JNANA SANYASA --
                 Jnanendriya, respect/disrespect, world/beyond 
world, place, living, nation, bad, complicated, attachment, 
love, sleep, intellect, trouble creator, beauty, , look, people, 
occasion, outside activity, anger, hunger, thirst, death, worry, 
unhappiness due to ego, unhappiness, habit,argument,
difference,trouble, blame,showoff, defect,comfort, sorrow,
disguise, sin,-- having any attachment/connection like these, 
repeating mantra SOHAM'.living alone is JNANA SANYASA. 
By following this JNANA SANYASA he will attain path of 
liberation.Without any interest in karma activity, being happy 
with himself(ATHMA),living alone is auspicious JNANA 
SANYASA.If he does not take bath or does not do sandya, 
JNANA SANYASI is not affected by that. However KARMA 
SANYASI has to do them promptly at appropriate time.So 
it is better to follow JNANA SANYASA.

PARAMAHAMSA --
SANYASI without holding danda & kamandala, wearing only 
kaupeena holding a wooden stick to protect himself from 
village animals, repeating incessantly 'SOHAM' japa, begging 
biksha, not looking left or right,wearing padukas, without 
looking at ladies or talking to them or treating them as his 
mother, not applying chandana etc.on fore head,avoiding 
company of people, having BRAHMA bhava while moving 
about, doing suitable karma of this ashrama by walking, 
without ego,vasana, pasha(attachment),he is a liberated 
person while living(JEEVANMUKTHA) and is called 
PARAMAHAMSA. Karmas done by him are of nishkama
 type & he is also called as AVADHOOTHA.