shmasana vairagya | श्मशान वैराग्य
shmashana vairagya (Devanagari: श्मशान वैराग्य ISO15919: śmaśāna vairāgya) means temporary detachment.
The word shmashana means cremation ground, and the word vairagya means detachment.
The phrase shmashana vairagya gets its meaning from the fact the one gets momentary detachment while taking a dead body to the cremation ground. Then the detachment weans off.
In India when carrying a dead body to cremation ground, people chant "Ram naam satya hai", which means Ram is the only eternal truth.
The implication of this statement is - other than Ram nothing else lasts forever. Do not develop attachment to temporary things as their loss is bound to cause you grief.
However, on the way back from cremation ground this profound knowledge is lost and one continues to be attached to the impermanent worldly people and things.
That means upon the loss of near and dear things (and people) we experience the transient nature of material objects. Later, we forgot about the impermanence and continue to relish transient (i.e material) objects expecting to get eternal bliss from them.
This is temporary detachment is called shmasana vairagya.
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