The Sannyasin-Swamiji's words

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CW V. p. 260- The Sannyasin: When a man has fulfilled the

duties and obligations of that stage of life in which he is born, and

his aspirations lead him to seek a spiritual life and to abandon

altogether the worldly pursuits of possession, fame, or power, when,

by the growth of insight into the nature of the world, he sees its

impermanence, its strife, its misery, and the paltry nature of its

prizes, and turns away from all these-then he seeks the True, the

Eternal, the Refuge. He makes complete renunciation (Sannyasa) of all

worldly position, property, and name, and wanders forth into the

world to live a life of self-sacrifice and to persistently seek

spiritual knowledge, striving to excel in love and compassion and to

acquire lasting insight. Gaining these pearls of wisdom by years of

meditation, discipline, and inquiry, he in turn becomes a teacher and

hands on to disciples, lay or professed, who may seek them from him,

all that he can of wisdom and beneficence.

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of

independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of

realization, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.