{"id":1392,"date":"2025-10-06T18:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:38:28","slug":"how-to-get-vairagya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/featured\/how-to-get-vairagya\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Vairagya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attachment is the cause of Grief. To the person free from attachment and affection there is no grief, much less fear.
\nFirst, 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<\/em>. – Swami Sivananda<\/p>\n

Vairagya<\/strong>
\nTo 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.<\/p>\n

Vairagya Sakatam of Bhartrihari<\/strong>
\nbhoge rogabhaya\u00fc kule cyutibhaya\u00fc vitte n\u00e7p\u00e0l\u00e0dbhaya\u00fc<\/em>
\nm\u00e0ne dainyabhaya\u00fc bale ripubhaya\u00fc r\u00e5pe jar\u00e0y\u00e0 bhayam<\/em>
\n\u00e0stre v\u00e0dibhaya\u00fc gu\u00f5e khalabhaya\u00fc k\u00e0ye k\u00e7t\u00e0nt\u00e0dbhaya\u00fc<\/em>
\nsarva\u00fc vastu bhay\u00e0nvita\u00fc bhuvi n\u00e7\u00f5\u00e0\u00fc vair\u00e0gyamev\u00e0bhayam<\/em><\/p>\n

In enjoyment there is fear of disease<\/em>
\nIn social position, the fear of falling<\/em>
\nIn wealth, the fear of hostile kings<\/em>
\nIn honour, the fear of humiliation<\/em>
\nIn power, the fear of foe<\/em>
\nIn beauty, the fear of old age<\/em>
\nIn scriptural learning, the fear of opponents<\/em>
\nIn virtue, the fear of slander<\/em>
\nIn body, the fear of death<\/em>.
\nAll the things of this world pertaining to human beings are attended with fear. Renunciation alone stands for fearlessness. – Vairagya Sakatam of Bhartrihari<\/p>\n

How to Get Vairagya<\/strong>
\n(Remember these seven vital points)
\n1. Sensual pleasure is momentary, deceptive, illusory and imaginary.
\n2. A mustard seed of pleasure comes with a mountain of pain.
\n3. 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)
\n4. Sensual pleasure is an enemy of Brahma Jnana.
\n5. Sensual pleasure is the cause for birth and death.
\n6. This body is nothing but a mass of flesh, bone and all sorts of filth.
\n7. 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.<\/p>\n

If you remember these seven points, always, the mind will be weaned from the cravings for sensual pleasures.<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

Read this once daily as soon as you get up from the bed.<\/p>\n

From the DLS articles: How To Get Vairagya<\/a> and Vairagya<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,7],"tags":[20],"class_list":{"0":"post-1392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-4-paths-of-yoga","8":"category-featured","9":"category-jnana-yoga","10":"tag-swami-sivananda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}