Interpretation

The second set of qualities for true knowledge: indriyartheshu vairagya (dispassion toward sense objects — not hatred of them, but freedom from compulsive attraction), anahankaraha (absence of ego-sense), and then a very specific contemplative practice: janma-mrityu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosha-anudarshana — 'seeing the defect/evil of birth, death, old age, disease, and suffering.' This is the practice of mortality contemplation: regularly meditating on the facts of human suffering to keep the mind from becoming naively comfortable in the body and to maintain spiritual urgency.