SARANAGATI

Bhaktyadau saktyabhavah pramitira-hitata sastratah paryudasah
Kalaksepaksamatvam tviti niyati-vasat apatadbhis chaturbhih
Eka-divi-tryadi-yoga-vyatibhidura-
nijadhikriyah samsrayante
Santah Srisam svatantra-prapadana-vidhina muktaye nirvisankah.

-Prapatti-yogya-adhikarah.

(1) Absence of ability to adopt such upayas as Bhakti-yoga.
(2) lack of the requisite knowledge.
(3) Prohibition by the scriptures of the adoption of such means and
(4) inability to put up with any delay in attaining Mukti; these four, occurring either single or in combinations of two, three or four, by virtue of adrishta (resulting from meritorious deeds performed in the past) are qualifications of varied kinds for performing direct and independent Prapatti to the Lord of Lakshmi. Good men resort to it and are free from all doubt for the attainment of Moksa.

Those who have only one of these four are of four classes, those who have any two of them are of six, those who have any three are of four and those who have all the four are one.

The Angas or Accessories of Saranagati
Saranagati or Self-surrender is the only means that can be adopted by us for the redemption of our souls.It is referred to in Sastras by different names like Niksepa, Nyasa, Sannyasa and Tyaga.