According to Osho, raga is attachment and indulgent clinging—hoarding, counting, brooding. Viraga is the reactive opposite—renouncing, rejecting, yet still obsessed, keeping ledgers of ‘how much I gave up.’ Vitaraga transcends both: a quiet, effortless unconcern where things are seen as they are, neither grasped nor refused—like Kamal treating the king’s diamond as just a stone, without interest or avoidance.
Liking holds on, disliking pushes away but still stares; beyond both is being so free you neither grab nor reject, as if a diamond is just a pebble.