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attachment and aversion become less intense, so does the grip of the external world. The moment when restraint is achieved on attachment and aversion, Vairagya - renunciation is reached. It is therefore, that Anandaghanji is rejoicing over the birth of the child who destroys the family-world.
Here the reason to rejoice is the arrival of a power that can destroy the material world that is attached since ages. It now seems that the material world can indeed be got rid of. That is to say, if we put in sufficient effort then the material world has to get destroyed. Shree Prabhu elucidates upon the uncertain nature in the first verse of the eighth chapter of 'Shree Uttaradhyayan Sutra’ —
अधुवे असासयम्मि संसारम्मि दुक्खपउराए ।
This world unlike the Pole Star is impermanent. Here the internal world in the form of the deviant affected disposition of the Atma has been termed impermanent. That is to say it is perishable. However may be the entire external world, we have absolutely nothing to do with it. It may remain eternal or it may even perish. We are here only for a while and will soon be gone. Hence it is not for us to bother about the entire external world. But the internal world is perishable. When the inner stage is occupied by renunciation, then alone will it get destroyed. Whom did Vairagya destroy first ?
जीने माया - ममता खाई
It destroyed Maya - affection and Mamata - possessive nature. Affection and possessive nature cannot be in the same place as Vairagya. Vairagya will not reside where affection and possessive nature do. One who wants to verify on the internal Vairagya, the feeling of indifference, will have to go deep within and search if the possessive nature is hiding somewhere. Are you still possessed of a person or a thing? If yes then you
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