Sanyas - Renounced Order of Life

Legend has also embellished the story of his last days on earth. The kritis of this period have reference to a mood of calm and blissful resignation to the Divine Will.  'Vidajaladhura'  (Janaranjani), mirrors such a mood, and it seems likely that allusions in such kritis, not understood in their delicacy and true import, gave rise to the accounts that Sri Rama ordained a further birth for his devotee, or that under the divine mandate Tyagaraja assumed the ochre robes of Sanyasa, by this re-birth both fulfilling the words of Sri Rama; and destroying further transmigration. Tyagaraja was initiated into Sanyasa before he died, in accordance with a tradition and practice largely in vogue at that period. A rare printed biography of the master in Tamil by a disciple of the Sishya Parampara informs us that he assumed the appropriate name of 'Nadha Brahmananda', as a Sanyasi.He Left thisWorl on Vaikunta Ekadasi.