Why this word is great
SANNYASI — [Noun] A Hindu religious mendicant who has formally renounced all material and social ties in pursuit of spiritual liberation. Via Hindi संन्यासी (sannyāsī), from Sanskrit संन्यासिन् (saṃnyāsin), from सम् (sam, "together, completely") + नि (ni, "down") + अस् (as, "to throw, to put"), thus meaning "one who has cast down or renounced everything." Unlike a *monk*, bound by the rules of a cloistered community, or a *hermit*, defined primarily by physical seclusion, the sannyasi is a doctrinal solitary, severed from caste and duty. He is the ochre robe dissolving into the marketplace dust, the empty bowl held in wordless expectation, the figure motionless beneath the vast, indifferent banyan—having thrown down the world not in despair, but as the final, deliberate act of completion.