Lord Krishna has shown two paths to moksha: One through sanyas i.e. renunciation and the other through nishkam yoga; to work without expectations of reward.

Sanyas is a very high word but no one understands it. People have started to call all who wear ochre clothes; as sannyasi. Sanyas means to take nyas- to place or to deposit. It means to retrieve the self from the mind, body, and speech and place it in the Self. Such a being is a sannyasi. One cannot become a sannyasi until an Avatar gives him the knowledge of the Self. A man cannot be in his home if he is in the farm and he cannot be in the farm if he is in his home; a person can only be in one place at a time. Similarly, a true sannyasi remains only in the Self.

People say nishkam yoga means, “Do what you have to do, but without any expectations of any reward.” Well, not even a bug would leave its home without any expectation! No one would do any work without some expectation of a reward! Would anyone go to a shoe store without expecting to buy a pair of shoes? No one would go to the market if he knows he will not be able to buy any vegetables today. Nevertheless we have to say, “Do your work without expectations for a reward.” What this does is, while working, this statement will remind you, ‘The Lord has said to work without expecting a reward,’ and because of this, the reward will be good. If people could truly work without expecting rewards, they would make progress, but they have not understood what Lord Krishna is saying. What the Lord said was, “When you go to buy vegetables, expect to get vegetables, however, having bought them, if they turn out bitter, then that is your reward. Therefore, do not have expectations for the rewards and do not do raag-dwesh. Accept whatever happens in the end.” Maintain composure if your pocket gets picked. Do not lament over it.  Maintain equanimity there. If you go out to buy a sari, naturally you expect to get a sari, but do not get depressed if it turns out to be a bad one. Accept the sari as it is. Do not expect anything more than that. Do not do raag-dwesh; that is what Lord Krishna is trying to say. You can go to a shoe store but do not harbor feelings of right or wrong, likes and dislikes.  Therefore, nishkam karma is to not harbor like or dislike in the result of any effort.
God has said in the Gita, “You have to study the Gita (abhyas kar).” Now people have studied it so much that abhyas has turned into adhyas; their study has become the only focus and agenda, feeding only the intellect. The Lord has said that in order to remove the wrong impression, people have to study, but that study itself has lead to a wrong impression; the intellect has taken over.

Today, no one understands a single word of Lord Krishna. Sannyast yoga means to not have the awareness of ‘I am the doer’, in all that one does; this is the definition of a true sannyasi.  There is not even a drop of sannyast in today’s so called sannyasis. Placing the self in the Self is sannyast yoga. An absolute sannyasi means dharma sanyas. This is the last sanyas (renunciation) of ours (mahatmas of Dadashri). Here the Self remains as the Self.  Our religion is alaukik (beyond the world). In the relative religions, the self is made to support all the penances and renunciations through the body, supporting the ego.

Lord Krishna has said that a true sannyasi, whether he has renounced the world, whether he is a family man or any other, is the one who has these three qualities: