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## Translation:
**The texts like Pravachana Saroddhara and Yogashastra have expounded the fourfold truth (Chaturbhangi) by considering the qualifications and disqualifications of the seeker who accepts the renunciation and the seeker who grants it.**
1. **When the seeker who accepts the renunciation is wise and the guru who grants it is knowledgeable, then it is a completely pure renunciation.**
2. **If the seeker who accepts the renunciation does not know the secret of renunciation, but the guru who grants it knows the essence of renunciation and explains it to the disciple in a proper way, then the disciple's renunciation becomes a correct renunciation. If he does not understand its essence, then his renunciation is impure.**
3. **If the guru who grants the renunciation does not know the essence of renunciation, but the one who is accepting it knows the secret of renunciation, then that renunciation is pure renunciation. Even if knowledgeable gurus are present, it is inappropriate to accept renunciation from an ignorant person due to tradition or other reasons.**
4. **If the seeker who accepts the renunciation does not know the essence of renunciation and the one from whom he is accepting it is also ignorant of the secret of renunciation, then his renunciation is an impure renunciation.**
**Renunciation is in place of Mount Meru in the six essentials (Shadavashyak). Renunciation stops all future actions of non-observance (Avrata) and the seeker follows the rules and sub-rules properly.**
**Uttaradhyayanasutra, while contemplating on renunciation, has explained it in the following ways:**
1. **Samyoga-Pratyakhyana:** Abandoning the practice of eating together in a group, the food brought by the ascetics. This makes the being self-reliant and satisfied with the benefits he receives.
2. **Upadhi-Pratyakhyana:** Abandoning clothes and other equipment. This prevents obstacles in self-study (Swadhyay) etc. Being free from desires, he does not have the desire to ask for clothes etc. or to protect them, and there is no mental distress.
3. **Ahar-Pratyakhyana:** Abandoning food eliminates attachment to life. Being free from attachment, he does not experience any suffering even in the absence of food.
4. **Yoga-Pratyakhyana:** Restraining the tendencies of mind, speech, and body is Yoga-Pratyakhyana. This is attained in the fourteenth quality stage. Such a seeker does not create new karmas but destroys the accumulated karmas.
**References:**
1. Pravachana Saroddhara Vritti
2. Yogashastra, Swopagna Vritti
3. Uttaradhyayanasutra 29/33
4. Uttaradhyayanasutra 29/34
5. Uttaradhyayanasutra 29/35
6. Uttaradhyayanasutra 29/37