What is Vairagya? (fwd)

[ravi]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:48:39 -0500, V. Krishnamurthy <profvk at YAHOO.COM>
wrote:

>In other words they will disappear. That is the work of time. So our
>scriptures give us the advice to slowly ‘detach’ ourselves from such
>attachment to impermanent things and gradually attach ourselves to what is
>permanent, namely, God. Attachment to God is also an attachment, of
>course. But in order to ‘detach’ ourselves from all the things to which we
>are attached, the only way is to change the object of attachment to God.
>Then God will do the rest for us. There is a famous Kural of Tiruvalluvar
>which says exactly this.

Meaning and text of the kuraL can be found at:
<http://www.escribe.com/religion/advaita/m4365.html>

Corresponding original message of Giri:
<http://www.escribe.com/religion/advaita/m4343.html>

That entire thread can be seen at
<http://www.escribe.com/religion/advaita/index.html?
by=OneThread&t=VairAgyam>