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been found, either individually or collectively, capable of creating a temporary sense of Vairagya, termed in Sanskrit as ‘Smaśāna Vairāgya' -'burial-ground' sense of aversion for life and its finitude. This passing phase of a temporary mood is not a solid capital upon which an individual can build up his entire future destiny in the spiritual world. No doubt, these temporary mental moods may be capitalised in training our mind and intellect to generate more and more sense of discrimination.
True dispassion is a wise condition of the ego, created out of a deep intellectual conviction, which, in its turn, has its roots in perfect Viveka. Such a dispassion alone can afford to smile forth into blossoms of success in the spring of study and reflection. As time passes on, in the maturity of an individual's spiritual florescence, one can hope to gather the fruits of wisdom.
False Vairāgya has ruined men more than what true atheism had ever done! Hundreds and thousands of such persons belonging to almost all religions of the world have reached sanctuaries of their respective monasteries. In the long run, they discover that they are not fit for a life of total renunciation and perfect self-control. So many of them who find sufficient moral courage return to the market-place and the world of contentions to "fight for, acquire and enjoy” material wealth. But many had come to live a choking life of frustrations and sorrows, with neither the capacity to live the life of renunciation, nor the daring to return! A few, wearing the apparel of the seekers, still live the life of the sensuous; they are the leprous ulcers walking the world's spiritual fields, contaminating the serene atmosphere and vitiating the salubrious climate thereof !
The Acharya has so briefly indicated these dangers by comparing men of cheap 'Vairāgya to those who are wrecked on the 'ocean of change' which is infested with ravenous crocodiles of sensuous desires. These desires jump at the throat of the poor victims and drag them down, drown them mid-way on their great pilgrimage to the Beyond.
