A person who rejects all mortal attachments. Ascetic. Pl. Sanyasis
a Hindu religious mendicant
ascetic. One who has forsaken the household life to seek knowledge (female equivalent - sanyasini)
An ascetic, a renunciate. One who has irrevocably renounced worldly possessions and relationships to seek Divine awakening, Self Realization.
in Hinduism, one who renounces the world by breaking all formal ties with society in order to overcome samsara.