Vairagya

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vair gya is a Sanskrit term used in Hindu philosophy that roughly translates as dispassion, detachment, or renunciation, in particular renunciation from the pains and pleasures in the material world. The Hindu philosophers who advocated vair gya told their followers that it is a means to achieve moksha.Vair gya is a compound word joining vai meaning "to dry, be dried" + r ga meaning "color, passion, feeling, emotion, interest". This sense of "drying up of the passions" gives vair gya a general meaning of ascetic disinterest in things that would cause attachment in most people. It is a "dis-passionate" stance on life. An ascetic who has subdued all passions and desires is called a vair gika.