Turning my road away from yours, here I leave,
I'm sandalwood,
leaving my fragrance with you, here I leave,
placing my heart's illusions under your pillow,
here leaves the detached, draping the cotton clothes of detachment
Bairagya means not having any worldly desire, attachment (moh), or Maya (illusions, the temptations that withhold you from being a saint, sacrificing everything to go into tapasya, saadhna). Leaving all forms of illusions that he had, that she might ever fall in love with him or might reciprocate the love he has for her, placing these illusions softly under her pillow, he now, leaves any attachment, hope of ever having her, and is yogi-like, trying to be monk, wrapped in the basics; cotton.
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