What is Moksha?
Moksha is a compound word.
Moha + Kshaya = Moksha.
Destruction or exhaustion of Moha
is Moksha.
Then what is Moha?
Moha is ignorance.
Ignorance of what? Is it the
ignorance of some worldly thing?
No, it is the ignorance of the soul
about its own true nature.
Now, let us imagine a movie. To play
out a movie we need a screen, a
projector and a film. Now let us see
the analogy.
Ishvara is the screen (Soul is a part
of it). Maya is is the projector and one's
own karma is the film.
So long as the film is being played
out, the screen forgets its own true
nature and falsely thinks itself to be
all the characters and events being
played out on it by the projector.
If so, when and how does the screen
realise its own true nature?
When the film, the karma, is
exhausted.
When does the karma get exhausted?
The Lord answers this question.
"Mat karmat kuru, Mat paramo, Mat
bhaktah sanga varjitah
Nirvairah sarva bhuteshu yah sa
Mameti Pandava".
BG 11.55
"Do the work for me (Karma yoga),
accept me as the highest (Jnana yoga),
be devoted to me (Bhakti yoga)
leave all other affiliations. Have no
enmity with any and all beings.
Such a person alone will attain Me,
O' Pandava (Arjuna).
This one shloka contains the essence
of the Bhagavad Gita.
Tailpiece.
Got up a trifle after the alarm as I'd got up to go round the corner about three quarters of an hour earlier. Went through our chores and were ready well in time.
After a lapse of 5 years, I'd the well at the backyard of Raj Nivas - my parents' house - cleaned, put requisite quantities of charcoal and rock salt at the bottom, the linked overhead tank cleaned and the interior of the house cleaned by three workers through the caretaker @ Rs.3,200/-. Felt nice!
Moksha is a compound word.
Moha + Kshaya = Moksha.
Destruction or exhaustion of Moha
is Moksha.
Then what is Moha?
Moha is ignorance.
Ignorance of what? Is it the
ignorance of some worldly thing?
No, it is the ignorance of the soul
about its own true nature.
Now, let us imagine a movie. To play
out a movie we need a screen, a
projector and a film. Now let us see
the analogy.
Ishvara is the screen (Soul is a part
of it). Maya is is the projector and one's
own karma is the film.
So long as the film is being played
out, the screen forgets its own true
nature and falsely thinks itself to be
all the characters and events being
played out on it by the projector.
If so, when and how does the screen
realise its own true nature?
When the film, the karma, is
exhausted.
When does the karma get exhausted?
The Lord answers this question.
"Mat karmat kuru, Mat paramo, Mat
bhaktah sanga varjitah
Nirvairah sarva bhuteshu yah sa
Mameti Pandava".
BG 11.55
"Do the work for me (Karma yoga),
accept me as the highest (Jnana yoga),
be devoted to me (Bhakti yoga)
leave all other affiliations. Have no
enmity with any and all beings.
Such a person alone will attain Me,
O' Pandava (Arjuna).
This one shloka contains the essence
of the Bhagavad Gita.
Tailpiece.
Got up a trifle after the alarm as I'd got up to go round the corner about three quarters of an hour earlier. Went through our chores and were ready well in time.
After a lapse of 5 years, I'd the well at the backyard of Raj Nivas - my parents' house - cleaned, put requisite quantities of charcoal and rock salt at the bottom, the linked overhead tank cleaned and the interior of the house cleaned by three workers through the caretaker @ Rs.3,200/-. Felt nice!
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