Samnyasa Upanishads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation c5.s2.7

c5.s2.7

In assessing the emergence of renunciatory ideologies and ways of life, scholars have been generally divided into two camps; some see it as a natural or, to use Heesterman's term, an *orthogenetic* development of the Vedic tradition, while others regard it as a new phenomenon that challenged and transformed the Vedic religion.