வைராக்கியம்...

Many of you have traveled in the railways and have seen in the railway compartments the saying that, “less luggage makes travel more comfortable.” In one sense, our life is a long journey. This long journey, because we are accumulating a lot of luggage in the form of many desires, becomes somewhat troublesome. When we can diminish this luggage, consisting of desires, then to some extent our journey of life is going to be less troublesome.

This process of diminishing the luggage or shedding your desires as you go up in the journey of life is referred to in the language of Vedantha as vairagya. Vairagya does not mean abandoning the house, leaving your surroundings, leaving your wife, leaving your children and living in a forest. That is not vairagya. When we stay in the house, stay in the midst of our duties and perform our duties which we have to perform, having our minds free from desires and attachments to those duties, regarding all that we do as our actions for God’s pleasure, that would be called proper vairagya. This is what is referred to as performing all the duties that you have to perform as being performed for God’s pleasure. These are not being performed for your pleasure. The realization that whatever you do is in the name of God and for God’s pleasure, will eliminate all losses, difficulties and troubles to you during your life.
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'Krishnamanian'