Samnyasa Upanishads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation c5.s2.t6.3

c5.s2.t6.3

The ascetic world we have examined provided such an alternative definition of reality. Here I want to explore briefly the resultant conflict with the established world and the inevitable interaction between the two worlds that radically transformed them both. I shall focus here mostly on the institutional aspects of this interaction, leaving the ideological and theological aspects for the remaining sections of this introduction, because they are clearly visible in the Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads themselves.