Vairagya Shatakam

by Bhartṛhari

11 chapters1h 52mEnglish1916

About this book

Vairagya Shatakam is one of the best books that gives the true picture of Renunciation. The book talks on how a common man gets lured by the endless desires which when satisfied fetches him nothing but the desires again. It concludes saying how these insatiable desires mislead the man from knowing his real nature-omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience! (Summary by Uday Sagar)

Chapters (10)

1Condemnation of desire

656

2Futile efforts to give up sense-objects

618

3Condemnation of the poverty of a supplicant attitude

640

4Delineation of the evanescence of enjoyments

622

5Description of the working of Time, or the principle of change

693

6A comparison as to how a monk stands to a king

557

7Control of mind by stimulating wisdom in it

606

8Discrimination of the immutable reality from the mutable

625

9Worship of Siva

672

10The way of life of a realized ascetic

696

Vairagya Shatakam

About this book

Chapters (10)

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