Faraway mountains are attractive: dUratah parvatah ramyA

dUratah parvatah ramyA: the faraway mountains are attractive.

Familiarity is accompanied by disappointment (or contempt).

As Lewis Carrol says the farthest rushes that are just out of reach always seem to be the prettiest. This is a characteristic of the outgoing mind that is ever in the quest of the unattainable, and it fills in beautiful vikalpas or imagined attributes to satisfy its innate desires.

This fantasy continues until the object of desire is attained, resulting in temporary and sometimes incomplete satisfaction, until the quest, longing, or tRShNA starts again. So vitRShnA (absence of craving or longing) is important. So vairAgya or dispassion is important.

 But rather than denial, it should be born of wise understanding like the wise Oyster who wouldn't leave his bed in Lewis Carroll's poem The Walrus and the Carpenter. O mind! Be like the wise Oyster!