...he apparently finds uncomfortable since all his efforts tend to its extinction or its transcendence. He thinks as an individual, and this is the distinctive...found only outside the world, at least in principle; also the relation between thought and action is different, for the speculation of the sanyasi has primarily...

...(sociocultural) realm, becoming thereby a renouncer and simultaneously, an "individual." 68 Only the renouncer "thinks as an individual and this is the distinctive...trait which opposes him to the man-in-the-world." 69 Dumont perceives the ideal Brahmin as very much the man-in-the-world and not a renouncer at all....

...meanings in relation to each other, and that it is the renouncer who is closed to the western individual: He thinks as an individual and this is the distinctive...man-in-the-world and brings him closer to the Western thinker. (275) The renouncer, then, unlike the quotidian worldly Brahman (who has a "subdued hostility to renunciation...