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Dispassion (Vairagya) means refusing to measure oneself by one’s possessions.
Its essence is the absence of desire, not merely the absence of desired objects.
Three types of desire (graded from gross to subtle):
Kamini – physical pleasure and lust.
Kanchana – desire for wealth; more subtle and influential.
Kirti – desire for name and fame; the subtlest and hardest to overcome, strongly feeding the ego.
Pleasure’s intensity is what thrills the mind.
Scriptures describe heavenly pleasures as far more intense than earthly ones.
Seeking heavenly pleasures over earthly ones is only relative dispassion (Madhyama), not true renunciation.
Even refined or heavenly pleasures are impermanent and must be given up.
True practitioners of Vairagya keep their minds focused on the Divine, not on sense objects.
A mind oriented higher cannot be tempted by lower pleasures.
Objects do not bind us; we bind ourselves to objects.
Objects are inert; only the mind, when free from desire, can progress spiritually.
Story of the Woman and Buddha:
A grieving woman asked Buddha to revive her dead husband.
Buddha asked her to bring mustard seeds from a house untouched by death.
She found that death existed in every family and realized its inevitability.
Through compassion, Buddha guided her to discover the truth herself.
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