A sage who successfully abandons any attachment to the fruit of actions, a tyagi is the highest kind of human being and destined to join Brahman upon death.
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Discourse 18
...entirely, but one who successfully abandons an interest in action’s fruit is known as a tyagi. A tyagi dies without the fruit of action, but one who cannot renounce it dies...
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