Vairagya
detachment, dispassion

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Vairagya is a mental and emotional insulation from cravings, desires and wants.

It is not a renunciation of the world and material objects and sense gratification, but a distinct lack of needing to indulge/ obtain/ attain any of the material objects or desires.

You don't control or suppress these desires and wishes, you simply don't feel the need for them -- like an adult who has outgrown toys of childhood. If it's there, you are fine; if not available, you are also fine.

Indifferent, not having abandoned, but indifferent to the objects and achievements of the world outside, your goals and validations have gone internal.

You haven't turned away from the world, you are still in it. Vairagya is kind of like the double vaccuum windows, your soul inside is insulated and detached from the heat of outwordly desires and objects. Only difference is, these windows cannot be installed by anyone from outside, we have to engineer them ourselves, through various practises and sadhanas.

Vairagya (detachment, dispassion) isn't something we achieve, instead it arises spontaneously when our Karma (actions) exactly follow our Viveka (discrimination) that our Buddhi (intelligence) helps develop.

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