1. Vairāgya Prakaraṇa¶
वैराग्यप्रकरणम्
Dispassion. The young Śrī Rāma returns from pilgrimage and falls into deep despair at the nature of life — its suffering, its brevity, its emptiness. In a long speech before his father's court he examines wealth, life, ego, mind, craving, the body, the stages of life and Time, and asks how one can live free in the world. His questions open the whole teaching; the sages promise an answer.
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Sargas¶
- Sarga 1 — Invocations and the frame story (66 verses)
- Sarga 2 — Who this teaching is for, and how it came to be written (31 verses)
- Sarga 3 — The essence of the teaching, and Śrī Rāma's pilgrimage (42 verses)
- Sarga 4 — Homecoming and daily life (12 verses)
- Sarga 5 — Śrī Rāma's dejection (15 verses)
- Sarga 6 — The arrival of Viśvāmitra (55 verses)
- Sarga 7 — Viśvāmitra's request (28 verses)
- Sarga 8 — Daśaratha's refusal (38 verses)
- Sarga 9 — Vasiṣṭha's counsel (23 verses)
- Sarga 10 — Śrī Rāma's state described (51 verses)
- Sarga 11 — Śrī Rāma comes to the assembly (38 verses)
- Sarga 12 — Śrī Rāma's first speech (28 verses)
- Sarga 13 — On fortune (22 verses)
- Sarga 14 — On life (23 verses)
- Sarga 15 — On the ego (21 verses)
- Sarga 16 — On the mind (27 verses)
- Sarga 17 — On craving (52 verses)
- Sarga 18 — On the body (62 verses)
- Sarga 19 — On childhood (31 verses)
- Sarga 20 — On youth (43 verses)
- Sarga 21 — On woman and desire (36 verses)
- Sarga 22 — On old age (38 verses)
- Sarga 23 — On Time (45 verses)
- Sarga 24 — Time as a prince at play (10 verses)
- Sarga 25 — The dance of Fate and Death (32 verses)
- Sarga 26 — Is there anything to trust? (43 verses)
- Sarga 27 — Nothing brings rest (41 verses)
- Sarga 28 — Everything changes (43 verses)
- Sarga 29 — Rāma's resolve (23 verses)
- Sarga 30 — Rāma's questions (27 verses)
- Sarga 31 — Rāma falls silent (27 verses)
- Sarga 32 — The rain of flowers (27 verses)
- Sarga 33 — The sages assemble (46 verses)