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Dispassion (Vairāgya)
Not cold indifference but the calm that no longer needs to grasp.
Vairāgya is dispassion: the steady, cultivated freedom from craving for pleasures and rewards, in this world or the next. It is not cold indifference but a clarity that no longer needs to grasp. In the Yoga-sūtra, vairāgya and steady practice (abhyāsa) are named together as the two wings by which the restless mind is quieted; in Vedānta it is a core qualification for the seeker.
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- Aṣṭāvakra-gītāKāśī (Varanasi) · 1450explains
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi 69↗explains
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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 3,5.1↗explains
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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 4,4.6↗explains
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