Attachment is the cause of Grief. To the person free from attachment and affection there is no grief, much less fear.
First, destroy Moha. Possess real Vairagya. Renounce the material World on the very day you get Vairagya. When you get Vairagya, you will be able to understand the false nature of things. – Swami Sivananda
Vairagya
To survive life, Vairagya – detachment to life – is essential. Vairagya is detachment and dispassion from worldly desires. Vairagya is freedom from all worldly desires. Vairagya is to remain completely engaged in the material World, yet uncoloured by this World. Vairagya is purely an internal, mental state.
Vairagya Sakatam of Bhartrihari
bhoge rogabhayaü kule cyutibhayaü vitte nçpàlàdbhayaü
màne dainyabhayaü bale ripubhayaü råpe jaràyà bhayam
àstre vàdibhayaü guõe khalabhayaü kàye kçtàntàdbhayaü
sarvaü vastu bhayànvitaü bhuvi nçõàü vairàgyamevàbhayam
In enjoyment there is fear of disease
In social position, the fear of falling
In wealth, the fear of hostile kings
In honour, the fear of humiliation
In power, the fear of foe
In beauty, the fear of old age
In scriptural learning, the fear of opponents
In virtue, the fear of slander
In body, the fear of death.
All the things of this world pertaining to human beings are attended with fear. Renunciation alone stands for fearlessness. – Vairagya Sakatam of Bhartrihari
How to Get Vairagya
(Remember these seven vital points)
1. Sensual pleasure is momentary, deceptive, illusory and imaginary.
2. A mustard seed of pleasure comes with a mountain of pain.
3. Enjoyment cannot bring about satisfaction of a desire. On the contrary, it makes the mind more restless after enjoyment through intense craving. (Trishnas and Vasanas)
4. Sensual pleasure is an enemy of Brahma Jnana.
5. Sensual pleasure is the cause for birth and death.
6. This body is nothing but a mass of flesh, bone and all sorts of filth.
7. Place before the mind the fruits of Self Realization or life in the Soul or Brahman, the Eternal – such as Immortality, Eternal Bliss, Supreme Peace and Infinite Knowledge.
If you remember these seven points, always, the mind will be weaned from the cravings for sensual pleasures.
Vairagya, Viveka and Mumukshutva (dispassion, discernment from the real and the unreal and keen longing for liberation from birth and death) will dawn. You should seriously look into the defects of sensual life (Dosha Drishti) and into the unreal nature of worldly life (Mithya Drishti).
Read this once daily as soon as you get up from the bed.
From the DLS articles: How To Get Vairagya and Vairagya