Moksha is interpreted in
various ways. It means the dispelling of ignorance, freeing the soul, the
innermost self from bondage of the illusory experience of birth, life, death
and the world--all other meanings regarding heaven etc. are all imagination.
Moksha only means knowing the ultimate truth or Brahman. That is why they have
coined the word Jivanmukta.
The cause of thirst for life and a thirst for rebirth is
ignorance of the true self. Real
rebirth is dying from the matter into the Spirit. This is the significance of
the crucifixion of Jesus. Whenever identification with the body and the world
exists, a body and the world are always available, whether in the dream or waking
or vision or astral, till the duality disappears by merging into the Source –
the Spirit. The soul is in the form of spirit or consciousness. .
The stone which is projected upwards remains in constant
motion, till it returns to its source, the earth, and rests. Pain continues to
give trouble, till the pre-pain state is regained.
The quest for self-knowledge is inherent in the very nature
of life, which is Absolute Existence – truth. Although indestructible by
nature, by false identification with its destructible instrument, the body,
consciousness imbibes a false apprehension of its destructibility within the
false experience of duality; hence it tries to perpetuate that instrument,
which results in believing the birth, life and death as a reality. But however
long these experiences may last; they eventually come to an end and yield to
the Self, which alone eternally exists.
The seeker has to give up the false identification with the
‘my’ which is the false self and, remember, the body and the world cannot exist
without the Self, whereas the Self can exist without the body and the world; in
fact it is always without it.
People think human being may take an animal birth in some
other life. These ideas are based on accepting the present birth as reality.
Inquiry and reasoning on the true base proves the fact that, neither the body,
nor the ‘I’, is the true self. Therefore,
the present birth, life and death are falsehood or illusion. Thus, the seeker has to realize the
fact that, the birth, life and death are part of the illusion, therefore the
rebirth and reincarnation theory is mere imagination based on the false
identity, within the false experience.
The cause and origin of the three states is the consciousness.
Consciousness appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep
(non-duality). Thus it is for the seeker to know what appears as duality (waking
or dream) and what disappears as non-duality (deep sleep).
The body and the world are exists only in duality (waking
or dream). They are
non-existent in non-duality (deep sleep). To unfold this mystery one has to
know what is the mind and what is the substance of the mind.
Only in duality (waking or dream) one knows that he exists,
in deep sleep the objective existence is absent.
One is aware of his body and sees his body moving and
thinking. But he is unaware of the fact that he and his experience of the world
are within the experience of duality (waking or dream).
One has to realize the fact that, the body also moving and
thinking and being in all sorts of places in the dream while it is actually
lying fast asleep. The dream is reality until waking takes place. The waking
also is reality until the wisdom dawns.
This Advaitic Gnana or
wisdom is the supreme secret. That for which the seeker has to make or do all
things is to understand, assimilate and realize the Supreme Truth or Brahman,
this Gnana or wisdom.
The real
Moksha or freedom is to realize the fact that ‘I’
consciousness is mere physical awareness. Physical awareness is not
self-awareness. The self –awareness is when the formless soul or
consciousness remains aware of its own non-dual true nature.
The path of wisdom is inner (mental) journey.
Self-knowledge and wisdom are one and the same thing. Without the intense urge
it is difficult to tread this path. Self-realization is not an experience
because the self is not an individual because it is formless and it pervades
everything and everywhere in all the three states.
The soul or consciousness, the innermost self is the
witness-consciousness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of
separate things. It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theatre,
revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete
impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their
absence.
A deeper self - search
reveals the fact that: -the experience implies duality. And duality is falsehood from ultimate
standpoint. The ego, body and world appear together and disappear
together. One cannot get rid of the ego
alone. It is no use of challenging or indulging in argument whether one is right
and others are wrong, in pursuit of truth, because the pursuit of truth is the
pursuit of verification. It is for the
seeker to know how he is right how others wrong and on what standpoint he is
right and others are wrong. And seeker
has to verify himself what he knows as truth,
is truth or not.
