karmA and sharaNagathi - Someone Please clarify

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There has been a lot of postings on this subject in recent timesin this

group. However, I have either missed the point or not seen an answer to

this question.

 

Can a person forget all his earthly duties and follow the path of

sharaNagathi - such as a grihasthan to solely follow the path of

sharaNagathi or even take sanyasam before providing for his family? How

do our scriptures address this issue ? What did some of our

paramacharyas go through before attaining sanyasam, just so they can

devote time towards all that is God ?

 

If it is right for such a person to do so, then why the contradiction in

 

"sarva dhrmAn parithyajya mAm ekam sharaNam vaja"

 

My interpretation - thanks to Dr. Shri Venkatachari's talk at New Jersey

Temple:

 

render your duties faithfully, correctly, in the path of Dharma, and

then think of me ...

 

Where is my thinking flawed ?

 

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