Vairagya Shatakam

Bhartṛhari (c. 400 - 500)
Translated by Swami Madhavananda (1888 - 1965)

Vairagya Shatakam is one of the best books that gives the true picture of Renunciation. The book talks on how a common man gets lured by the endless desires which when satisfied fetches him nothing but the desires again. It concludes saying how these insatiable desires mislead the man from knowing his real nature-omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience! (Summary by Uday Sagar)

Genre(s): Poetry, Philosophy, Ancient

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Uday Sagar
00:06:15
Play 01 Condemnation of desire Uday Sagar
00:10:56
Play 02 Futile efforts to give up sense-objects Uday Sagar
00:10:18
Play 03 Condemnation of the poverty of a supplicant attitude Uday Sagar
00:10:40
Play 04 Delineation of the evanescence of enjoyments Uday Sagar
00:10:22
Play 05 Description of the working of Time, or the principle of change Uday Sagar
00:11:33
Play 06 A comparison as to how a monk stands to a king Uday Sagar
00:09:17
Play 07 Control of mind by stimulating wisdom in it Uday Sagar
00:10:06
Play 08 Discrimination of the immutable reality from the mutable Uday Sagar
00:10:25
Play 09 Worship of Siva Uday Sagar
00:11:12
Play 10 The way of life of a realized ascetic Uday Sagar
00:11:36