No, please refer Patrick's translation to the passage, which I quoted earlier.
The asrama sequence is optional, just one among three options ("Or else" in translation) thrown open to the person. Patrick has highlighted this fact in the footer (19) in page 214 of that book Ascetics and Brahmins: Studies in Ideologies and Institutions. All three courses are optional, without preference attached to any of them.
Here's a link to another translation
https://shaivam.org/scripture/English-Translation/1305/jabala-upanishat-sastri
that interprets the word viraja as "disgusted with the world"
When a word can have multiple meanings, it is best to adopt that meaning which is in sync with the idea indicated by other Upanishads. Here we have a passage where a word virajet is used in connection with parivrajyam. Brih Up 4.4.22 deals exclusively with Parivrajyam. The same passage is repeated verbatim elsewhere in Brih Up too, hence it has added significance. There are no other significant passages from the older Upanishads dealing with parivrajyam. So that's why I chose a meaning (detachment and giving up) for the word Virajet, that is in sync with the idea expressed in 4.4.22.
Hence my point that right from early Upanishadic period, the injunction to Sannyasa was applicable to people endowed with worldly detachment, belonging to all Asramas, and hence Sannyasa is rightly called Athyasrama, a stage beyond Varnasrama dharma.
There is something called a viraja homa (for getting rid of rajas and Tamas gunas) that is part of Sannyasa initiatory rites. Anyway, in my message I didn't mean the giving up of rajo-guna, but the giving up of desire for the worldly things like children, wealth etc. Even in Sattva and Tamas guna, one can have certain desires, which however binds a person to this world (thus going against eshana-Tyagam which is the primary requirement of parivrajyam).
If we choose the meaning here that since rajas equals energy, so viraja means lack of energy, then a person must take up Sannyasa only when he becomes devoid of all energy to pursue worldly life and becomes practically a weakling, old and decrepit. That goes into conflict with many of the difficult rules given in the Sannyasa upanishads, and goes against the upanishadic statement "nAyamAtmaa Balaheenena labhyah".
The same jabala upanishad under consideration, deals separately with those who are suffering whether due to being devoid of energy or some other reason.
yadyaturah syaad manasaa vaachaa samnyaset
Which again confirms that the word viraja needs to be interpreted in a different way, as detached/disgusted with the world.
Sannyasa is Sad nyasa, a quest for moksha through the realization of the Atman, hence the goal of life for every human being, as the upanishads state. It is possible only to one who must be strong and confident and fully capable of pursuing it's difficult journey.
