Vairagya is the loss of interest in the world, and Jain accounts of it are consistently precipitated by something concrete rather than by argument. Mahavira's own biography has it arriving after his parents' deaths; Neminatha's at the sound of penned animals; the canonical accounts collect dozens of such moments — a wilting flower, a dead body, a snake's cast skin, a wealthy man's funeral, an animal at a market. The state is described not as depression but as a flattening in which what previously seemed worth pursuing simply stops appearing that way, and it is reported as relief. Contemporary diksha narratives, of which there are many published in the community, follow the same shape, and the moment is asked about and retold. The tradition distinguishes it carefully from despair and from aversion, both of which are passions and both of which bind karma: vairagya is the absence of pull, not the presence of push. It is treated as the precondition for renunciation rather than as an achievement, and an initiation taken without it is regarded as unstable.