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The second qualification is: "Ihaa-mutra-phala-bhoga-viraagah" (renunciation of the desire to enjoy here and hereafter, the fruits of one's actions). This is also known as Vairaagya (non-attachment). One must reason and realise the transitoriness of joy and grief, pollutions 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. The feeling of non-attachment will next dawn in the mind. Vairaagya does not involve giving up of hearth and home, of wife and children and taking refuge in forests. It involves only the awareness of the Jagath (world) as transitory and, as a consequence of this awareness, discarding the feelings, "I" and "Mine".

The third qualification is: "Sama-damaadi Guna Sampath", the Group of six virtues, Sama, Dama and the rest. Next