Raga is passionate attachment. “Vi” negates it. Yathartha is authentic. Thus, Yathartha Vairagya means authentic detachment in the true sense. This nuancing around authenticity, or otherwise, is required, as when the “going gets tough”, often people get into depressive vairagya.

This happens when someone’s close and dear person passes away. They feel the emptiness around, and the dukkha has to be lived for it to be empathised with. This is a temporary vairagya called “Smashana Vairagya”.

One feels that everything is there to perish and there is no sense in pursuing with........

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