Vairagya Shatakam
Bhartṛhari
Read by Uday Sagar
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) (1 hr 52 min)
Chapters
Preface | 6:15 | Read by Uday Sagar |
Condemnation of desire | 10:56 | Read by Uday Sagar |
Futile efforts to give up sense-objects | 10:18 | Read by Uday Sagar |
Condemnation of the poverty of a supplicant attitude | 10:40 | Read by Uday Sagar |
Delineation of the evanescence of enjoyments | 10:22 | Read by Uday Sagar |
Description of the working of Time, or the principle of change | 11:33 | Read by Uday Sagar |
A comparison as to how a monk stands to a king | 9:17 | Read by Uday Sagar |
Control of mind by stimulating wisdom in it | 10:06 | Read by Uday Sagar |
Discrimination of the immutable reality from the mutable | 10:25 | Read by Uday Sagar |
Worship of Siva | 11:12 | Read by Uday Sagar |
The way of life of a realized ascetic | 11:36 | Read by Uday Sagar |