Among the preliminary qualifications for yearning to know Brahman, the first is discrimination (viveka) between the transitory and the eternal — in other words, the discovery that the Atma alone is beyond time and that all objects perceivable by the senses are only transitory. As a result of prolonged investigation, one has to gain this unshakable conviction and be established in it. The second qualification is renunciation of the desire to enjoy, here and hereafter, the fruits of one’s actions. This is also known as nonattachment (vairagya). One must reason and realise the transitoriness of joy and grief, which are the pollutants that affect the mind. One will be convinced, then, that all things are caught in a flux; they are all momentary, they yield only grief. Vairagya does not involve giving up hearth and home, wife and children, and taking refuge in forests. It involves only the awareness of the world as transitory and, as a consequence of this awareness, discarding the feelings of “I” and “mine”.
Bagavan Sri sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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