Monmuk, Sanjay, others: Hinduism and the belief in rebirth.

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Hi Mukund and others,

 

I have repeatedly been seeing posts that seem to imply "good karma

will result in Moksha" and other related conclusions. I used to

believe the same until about a year ago, until I started actually

comprehending various diverse sources on this topic (notice that I

had read them earlier but never really comprehended them). Since no

Guru has come forward to explode this myth, it is up to the students,

so I am taking a go.

 

To make a long story short, rest assured that doing good karma does

not result in Moksha. Moksha is the state in which you are free from

opposites be they sensory opposites e.g. hot and cold, or ego-related

opposites - praise and criticism. In Carl Gustav Jung's analysis of

the issue, he notes that in the average person, libido - which you

should not misunderstand only as "sexual" libido but general libido:

the psychic energy in you that creates an impetus to action of any

kind - is tightly tied to the opposites. The Moksha state is achieved

by lowering and detaching the libido from the sensory opposites and

ego-related opposites. In other words, becoming truly indifferent to

all opposites - praise and criticism on one end and hot and cold on

the other. In such a state, your libido (impetus to action) flows

directly from within, without being diverted by the ego (your concept

of yourself) or senses. The actions produced by such libido are

automatically good since there can be no absolutely no personal

benefit in mind since the ego has already completely lost it's power

(lost it's libido, psychologically speaking).

 

So read your sources carefully and note what I say here: The

relationship goes only ONE WAY - the Mokshic state guarantees you

good karma. Good karma does not guarantee you the Mokshic state. You

can make all the donations you want but it will not progress you

towards Moksha one bit if your ego is not totally extinct (it may get

you pleasures though as good karma begets good karma and bad karma

begets bad). Some people use meditation for extinction of ego, some

use Bhakti, and of course there are other techniques too. Use

whatever works for you, but the goal has to be a totally extinction

of ego and detachment from senses. Good karma will automatically

result. And then you will understand - death is simply removal of

your senses, is it not? If the Moksha attained person has already

detached himself from them (senses), death is nothing more than an

observable event, which is why there is no cycle of birth and death

for him/her anymore.

 

In my humble opinion, there have been people with Moksha like states

well before death. Read Jiddu Krishnamurti. For a more American

source, read the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.

 

Sundeep