The sannyasa stage has got four stages: kuticaka, bahudaka, parivrajakacarya and paramahamsa. Kuticaka. When one takes sannyasa... These are the processes. He is not practiced to beg from door to door. Therefore in the beginning he makes a cottage outside the village, and the foodstuff comes from his home. But he has no connection because by vanaprastha he has already left home, and by sannyasa, completely... But takes prasadam from home. That is called kuticaka. Then when he's practiced, he goes from door to door, and that is called bahudaka. And then, when he's still more practiced, he becomes a preacher, parivrajakacarya, goes from country to country, state to state, for preaching. And after preaching, when the preaching is advanced to some extent, then he sits down in a place as paramahamsa. That is called paramahamsa. Different stages. Not that all of a sudden one becomes paramahamsa and bidi also, not like that. Paramahamsa stage is not to be imitation. So to stop this imitation, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura introduced this system, sannyasa. He personally became sannyasa, and to many of his disciples, he gave sannyasa.   (More...)