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Meaning of "vairagya"

Word

Vairagya

Sanskrit

वैराग्य

IAST

vairāgya

In General

Dispassion or indifference to sensual enjoyments herein and hereafter. This is one of the four Sadhana Chatushtaya Sampathi the Advaita school of thought promote.

Human beings tend to perceive the world according to their personal likes and dislikes, attractions and aversions. The result is a highly subjective and misleading view of the world and oneself. Detachment means not to be influenced by selfish desires. Vairagya is also express itself as an intense aversion towards worldly pleasures. According to Adi Shankara, vairagya is the refusal or inability to be satisfied by the limited and transitory.

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