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The seminal role that Vairagyam, dispassion, plays in Spiritual sadhana

needs to be reiterated often as it is this that adds strength to

whatever mode of sadhana we follow. It is a member in the four-fold

qualification that a spiritual seeker is required to be equipped with so

that the enquiry on Brahman will be fruitful. Without this, Adi Shankara

says in the Vivekachoodamani that all other virtues are but a mirage.

That is, the other virtues will remain just a seeming ornament and would

not come of any real use. With a view to remind ourselves of the need to

strengthen this King of virtues, dispassion, I propose to post now and

then messages from a variety of scriptures, books of recent times,

sayings of the Elders, the Wise, etc. Here is a verse (just the meaning)

from Bhartrihari's Vairagya Shatakam:

 

The objects of enjoyment, even after staying with us for a long time ,

are sure to leave us sometime; then what difference does their privation

in this way make to men, that they do not of their own accord discard

them? If the enjoyments leave us on their own initiative, i.e. if they

tear themselves from us, they produce great affliction of the mind; but

if men voluntarily renounce them, they conduce to the eternal bliss of

self-possession. (verse 12)

The following ten articles describe Vairagyam in greater details. The

writings may be downloaded for viewing and printing and they are in pdf

file format. .

 

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Vairagyam1 <http://www.advaitin.net/Subramaniam/Vairagyam1.pdf>

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Vairagyam 2 <http://www.advaitin.net/Subramaniam/Vairagyam2.pdf>

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Vairagyam 3 <http://www.advaitin.net/Subramaniam/Vairagyam3.pdf>

* Vairagyam 4 <http://www.advaitin.net/Subramaniam/Vairagyam4.pdf>

* Vairagyam 5 <http://www.advaitin.net/Subramaniam/Vairagyam5.pdf>

 

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Vairagyam6 <http://www.advaitin.net/Subramaniam/Vairagyam6.pdf>

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Vairagyam 7 <http://www.advaitin.net/Subramaniam/Vairagyam7.pdf>

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Vairagyam 8 <http://www.advaitin.net/Subramaniam/Vairagyam8.pdf>

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Vairagyam 9 <http://www.advaitin.net/Subramaniam/Vairagyam9.pdf>

* Vairagyam 10 <http://www.advaitin.net/Subramaniam/Vairagyam10.pdf>