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VAIRAGYA
indiscriminately. Whether to have ‘Jihvachapalya’ or not to have Jihvachapalya is a matter of Viveka and has nothing to do with Vairagya as such.
But these two things always overlap. It is always difficult to understand whether it is Vairagya that you should have or Viveka, that is why it’s a twin concept- ‘Jnana Vairagya’, that is why the knots related to these two subjects 1 and 1a in our system are close to each other showing the highly inter connected nature of these two essential spiritual conditions.
We can never have Vairagya, real Vairagya until we know that divinity is present everywhere. That awareness is what we are trying to get through in our meditations. Why we meditate again and again and on the heart is mainly because that is the place where we get to know the nature of Divine, God, or Reality namely Balance. The balance that is there, the peace that we have is what enables us to understand the Vairagya. It has nothing to do with other things; it is a question of determination. So far as other aspects of Vairagya are concerned, that are
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