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VAIRAGYA
Viveka stresses the need for determination. If we do not have a determination, and not prepared to gird up our loins, we are not surely going to have Viveka. This is the point of view with which we ended in the last talk on Viveka. The concept of Vairagya is directly connected to the concept of Viveka. In tradition they are generally called two ‘Bhushanam’ or two ornaments we should have in the path of spirituality- “Jnana, Vairagya Bhushanam”. If we don’t have these two, Viveka which is otherwise called ‘Jnana’ and Vairagya we are not likely to move far in the path of spirituality. Some abhyasis who have stated that they are not able to develop these virtues or expect them to be granted by some other force rather than generating through their own will are likely to fail in sadhana. The help of the Master comes only when we do our duty.
Some abhyasis have stated that ‘I am not able to just satisfy with due attachment’, which is
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