The sannyasi should depend completely on God. That is sannyasa. Not that I shall go to a rich man and beg something and take money and utilize it. No. That is not required. Completely independent

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"The sannyāsī should depend completely on God. That is sannyāsī. Not that I shall go to a rich man and beg something and take money and utilize it. No. That is not required. Completely independent"

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

The sannyāsī should depend completely on God. That is sannyāsa. Not that I shall go to a rich man and beg something and take money and utilize it. No. That is not required. Completely independent. Because that kind of sannyāsa is not possible at the present age, therefore, generally, sannyāsa should not be accepted. They cannot follow the prohibit.

Lecture on SB 2.2.5 -- New York, March 5, 1975:

So because it is very difficult to maintain sannyāsa in this age, therefore the sannyāsa order is completely prohibited. Real sannyāsī means. . . Here is the description of life. What is that? Cīrāṇi kiṁ na pathi santi. They have to pick up some torn cloth lying on the street and cover them. That's all. Then this diśanti bhikṣāṁ naivāṅghripāḥ. Aṅghripāḥ. Aṅghri means legs, and pa means drinking. The trees drink water through the root. That is their leg. Therefore their another name is aṅghripa. . . . (indistinct) . . . iti pa, and aṅghri means leg. So different species of life there is different process of eating. We are eating through mouth; the trees are eating through the legs. This is God's creation. Not that the mouth is only eating, . . . (indistinct) . . .. No. There are other senses, active senses, hands and legs, tongue. These are active senses. Genital, rectum, these are active senses. So aṅghripa means the trees. The sannyāsī should depend completely on God. That is sannyāsī. Not that I shall go to a rich man and beg something and take money and utilize it. No. That is not required. Completely independent. Because that kind of sannyāsa is not possible at the present age, therefore, generally, sannyāsa should not be accepted. They cannot follow the prohibited.

But so far our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is there, we are not like that māyāvādī-sannyāsa. Our sannyāsīs completely devote life for serving Kṛṣṇa. Sannyāsa. Sannyāsa means sat, nyāsa. Nyāsa means to give up; and sat, oṁ tat sat, the Absolute Truth. So for the service of the Absolute, Kṛṣṇa, we give up our family life. Family life means to give up the whole world, because people are struggling hard just to maintain the family.