The Supreme Yoga: A New Translation of the Yoga Vasistha
author: Swami Venkatesananda
edition: 2013, New Age Books
pages: 777
ISBN-13: 9788178222608
Topic: Hinduism
Part 1 - Vairagya Prakaranam (Section Dealing with Dispassion)
This page describes Vairagya Prakaranam (Section Dealing with Dispassion) which is Part 1 in the book: The Supreme Yoga by Swami Venkatesananda. This is a modern English translation of the Yogavasishtha (तारा, yoga-vasishtha) in two volumes, entitled ‘the supreme yoga’. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Vairagya Prakaranam (Section Dealing with Dispassion)” according to 210 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Vivekachudamani [by Shankara]
He who has killed the shark known as sense-object with the sword of mature dispassion, crosses the ocean of Samsara, free from all obstacles. Notes:[Dispassion—Vairagya. ]...
Read full contents: Verse 80
Shiva Gita (study and summary) [by K. V. Anantharaman]
[Full title: The Concept of Vairagya Abhijnana Shakuntala highlighted in Shiva Gita] “drishtanushravikavishaya vitrishnasya vashikarasamjna vairagyam”—Shri Patanjali Yogasutra 1.15 “Vairagya is the state of trained mind wherein the burning desire for power and pelf and possession and sexuality of this world and heaven etc. of the other worlds are consummately eschewed”. 1.0 Vairagya—tenet of Shiva Gita In Shiva Gita an entire chapter is devoted to Vairagya or dispassion and its importance stressed in many other...
Read full contents: Appendix 6 - The Concept of Vairagya Abhijnana Shakuntala
Yoga-sutras (with Bhoja’s Rajamartanda) [by Rajendralala Mitra]
Giving up all eagerness for these two classes of objects, on account of their becoming distasteful at the end, the reflection which ensues (in the thinking principle) to the effect that these are my subjects, but I am not their slave, is called Dispassion (Vairagya,) Notes and Extracts [Notes and comparative extracts from other commentaries on the Yogasutra] [The word Vairagya (dispassion) is formed of the privative prefix vi, and raga, ‘affection, ‘prepossession, ‘love, ‘desire, the meaning...
Read full contents: Sutra 1.15
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[The Supreme Yoga: A New Translation of the Yoga Vasistha: index]
[Preface]
[Foreword]
[Introduction]