Tyājya — What Must Be Abandoned
Tyājya (Sanskrit: tyaj = to abandon; 'that which is to be abandoned') refers to the qualities, attitudes, beliefs, attachments, and actions that obstruct the soul's progress toward liberation and must be consciously relinquished.
The Tyājya-Upādeya Framework: Sri Vaishnava instruction carefully delineates what must be given up (tyājya) and what must be embraced (upādeya). True spiritual life requires both the abandonment of the harmful and the cultivation of the beneficial.
What Is Tyājya:
- Ahaṅkāra — false ego, belief in independent selfhood
- Mamakāra — possessiveness, 'this is mine'
- Anya devatā worship as primary goal — treating other deities as supreme
- Anya śeṣatva — service directed to anyone other than Bhagavān as the ultimate loyalty
- Dehatmabhimāna — identifying the body as the self
- Viparīta jñānam — fundamental misidentification
- Niṣiddha karma — actions forbidden by śāstra
Tyājya in Prapatti: In prātikūlya varjanam (one of the five aṅgas of prapatti), the prapanna commits to abandon all that is contrary to surrender. This is the tyājya of prapatti — the deliberate turning away from what obstructs Bhagavān's grace.