ABSTRACT
People who seek initiation (Diksha) as monks, are moved by one of these two motives, namely, disgust with the life of a house-holder, owing to misfortune or sorrow, and a deliberate choice of the devotee's life as a means of the highest spiritual improvement. In a work named 'Traivarik-Sannyas-sar' Kailash Parvat quotes from Yajnavalka Smriti and Brahma Baivarta Puran verses to prove that the first three castes are undoubtedly entitled to receive initiation as Sannyasis. Rules to be observed by a sannyasi in his personal conduct: when he goes out begging, he should wear one cloth round the waist above the knees and below the navel, and another over the shoulders, he shall eat only one meal in 24 hours and he shall live outside inhabited quarters. In case the late mahant has left no instructions for the succession, nor any chela, the succession will fall to his own chela's chela, or to his Gurubhai, in that order of preference.
