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Vairagya Shatakam
by BHARTṚHARI (c. 400 - 500)Condemnation of desire
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 unsatiable desires mislead the man from knowing his real nature-omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience! (Summary by Uday Sagar)
Listen next episodes of Vairagya Shatakam:
A comparison as to how a monk stands to a king , Condemnation of the poverty of a supplicant attitude , Control of mind by stimulating wisdom in it , Delineation of the evanescence of enjoyments , Description of the working of Time, or the principle of change , Discrimination of the immutable reality from the mutable , Futile efforts to give up sense-objects , The way of life of a realized ascetic , Worship of Siva