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By Vairagya, non-attachment to thought,

renounce all that makes you suffer.

But unless you renounce mind

all other renunciation is useless,

as everything you would renounce

is just renounced with mind.

Only Self renounces mind itself.

All forms are transient

and to be attached to them is to be confused.

Anything that rises

be it thought, desire, emotion, feeling or object

will give you suffering

and no one in the world can avoid this.

Both the enjoyer and the enjoyed are washed away.

But the wise discriminate between the Real and the unreal.

They know what is Real

and so allow their feelings and thoughts to arise

because they know all is One and the same!

In this way there is no attachment and no suffering.

Vairagya is knowing

that there are no abiding pleasures.

A wise one rejects all for Peace.