Vairagya (vairāgya)

Vairagya is dispassion, the fading of appetite for objects that experience has shown to be unable to satisfy. The Mahabharata distinguishes it sharply from disgust or exhaustion: Yudhishthira's wish to abandon the throne after the war is treated by Vyasa and Krishna as grief masquerading as detachment, and he is argued back into ruling. Real vairagya in the epic looks like Yayati concluding that desire is not quenched by feeding it, or the Pandavas walking north without looking back.