The casting off of worldly desires as also of all earthly possessions, is designated renunciation. Renunciation can never be gained except by one who is shorn of anger and malice.
त्यागः स्नेहस्य यत् त्यागो विषयाणां तथैव च। रागद्वेषप्रहीणस्य त्यागो भवति नान्यथा॥