Vairāgyaśatakam is one of the three series of hundred verses on renunciation. It is a masterpiece by the king turned into ascetic
Bhartṛihari.
Vairāgyaśatakam is the wisdom of a person who experienced the momentary nature of all phenomenon and created some very poetic ślokas or aphorisms to describe the real nature of life.
” These Shlokas can generally be grouped into ten divisions: condemnation of desire, futile attempts to abandon sense-objects, condemnation of poverty of a supplicant attitude, delineation of the evanescence of enjoyments, description of the working of Time, comparison of a king to an ascetic, control of mind by stimulating wisdom in it, discrimination of the immutable reality from the mutable, worship of Lord Shiva and the ways of a self-realized ascetic.” – Swami Sivananda Saraswati
