Vairāgya
वैराग्य— the loosening of the grip
Vairāgya — the loosening of the grip. Bhagavad Gītā 2.47 + Yoga Sūtras 1.12 in dialogue with Gilbert & Wilson on affective forecasting.
affective forecasting · Gilbert / Wilson
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samvāda takes one Sanskrit or Pali word a week and sits it across from a finding from contemporary cognitive science. Both voices are AI-generated with ElevenLabs. Every primary source is license-clean: Bhikkhu Sujato's Pali translations are CC0, Arnold's Gītā and Müller's Upaniṣad renderings are public domain. Each passage is reviewed sentence by sentence before publication. Every quote carries its source and license.
The episode is not a lecture. It is a conversation between two positions — the classical formulation and the empirical one — that sometimes agree, sometimes argue, and sometimes discover they are describing the same thing from opposite banks. The format stays short on purpose: 5–8 minutes, no more. A reading practice, not a curriculum.
Nine words from the tradition. One a week.