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consists not only in abandoning the objects or in remaining physically aloof from them but it also implies mental indifference and an attitude of neutrality towards the objects of the world. It consists in never entertaining the desires for the objects of enjoyment. Only the complete eradication of desires from the mind can ensure detachment in the real sense. Attachment to objects is produced only by desire (qoum), the susceptibility of the mind to fall a prey to the attraction to objects of enjoyment of various forms. Vyāsa explains the real meaning of vairāgya in his commentary in the following way -“Vairāgya is the controlled consciousness without rejection and acceptance, and which is constituted of absence of enjoyment by the power of meditation of the mind, which sees the faults of the objects of senses which have contact with the heavenly and worldly objects, and which is also disgusted of such worldly objects as women, food, drink, wealth, etc., and such objects mentioned in the sțutis as heaven, disembodied conditions, attainment of the submergence in the original prakịti, etc."!
Unless one is convinced of the futility of the objects of enjoyment detachment for them cannot be cultivated. A forced detachment always has the fear of relapse as the susceptibility to temptation itself is not completely uprooted. All kinds of desires for earthly and heavenly objects must be eradicated from the mind in order to make it free from every kind
1 Jha Ganganath (Tr.) : Patanjala Yoga Sūtrani, Sūtra 15, p. 19.
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