Samnyasa Upanishads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation c8.24

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and liberation, 78–81 literature on, 11–18 nature of, 58–71 as negative state, 105–6 as new birth, 96–97, 106 as non-ritual state, 60–68, 90, 92, 96 origin of, 19–23 as perfection of ritual, 60, 68–71, 93 at the point of death, 74, 95 purpose of, 58, 78–81 qualification for, 60, 83–85 rite of, 59–60, 82–97 of rites, 59, 106 ritual effects of, 60, 68, 71–75 and sacrificial theology, 69–71 social significance of, 73 time for, 75, 83–85 of women, 84 Retirement, 55–56 Rice, 30 Rites, 12, 40–42, 56–57, 61, 75, 79, 81, 92, 99 abandonment of, 59–67, 75, 78, 81–83, 86 anti-ritualism, 37 cause of bondage, 78–79 definition of, 64 rites of passage, 32, 54–56