The BLISS of Non-Attachment – The Spiritual Path of Letting Go: Vairagya Shatakam of Bhartrihari

Perfect peace and contentment in life are gained, not by striving harder, but by letting go. The futility of conventional worldly life and the blissful delight of rejecting it are shown with biting sarcasm in Bhartrihari’s remarkable work, “One Hundred Verses on Non-Attachment”. 0:00 Introduction 4:17 Verses with Translation and Explanation 32:42 Translations Recited for Meditation Bhartrihari’s beautiful and profound Sanskrit poetry emphasizes a key principle in Advaita Vedanta - to gain enlightenment (moksha), ignorance of your true Self (atma) must be removed by spiritual knowledge (jnana, vidya). But that knowledge remains inaccessible unless you become an adhikari, a fully prepared aspirant, which is possible only with the cultivation of vairagya, dispassion or detachment. Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit. For more information, please see: