SOME THOUGHTS ON LIBERATION(MOKSHA)-17

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Loving SAI RAMs.

 

Let us look into some more verses from the Bagavad Gita which lays bare the path for attaining Liberation.

 

Verse 17, Chapter 2

 

" But the man who rejoices only in the Self(Yastu Atamaratireva syat), who is satisfied only in the Self(Atmatriptascha), who is content in the Self alone (Atmani eve santushtas syat) , for him verily there is nothing more to be done (tasya karyam na vidyate) " .

 

The Lord tells us in the Gita that actions performed in the world which are undertaken in a spirit of yajna integrate their personality and make them more prepared for meditation, which is said to be the highest form of sadhana. Through selfless work, an individual gains an increasing amount of inner poise and when such a single-pointed is brought to function at the meditation seat, the meditator gains the experience of transcending his limited ego. To such a perfected one, action is not a training to purify himself but is a fulfilment of his own God-realisation. We are egged on to activity seeking and demanding a better satisfaction and a complete contentment. Satisfaction and contentment are the two wheels of the life-chariot. In order to gain a better satisfaction and to reach nearer to the point of contentment, we are goaded to act in the outer world. But the Man of Perfection, who on transcending his limited identification with his matter-envelopments, when he gets himself ushered into the all-perfect realm of the Atma, he comes to feel so satisfied with the state of Self-hood which he thereby attains, that he experiences a complete sense of contentment in the very Divine Nature, and that provides eternal satisfaction for him. Where satisfaction and contentment have arrived in the Antahkarana, there desires can not arise at all; and where the desires are not there, there can not be any action. Thus, effects can not have their play on him. The effects of the spiritual'ignorance' are 'desires', 'thoughts' and 'actions'. Naturally, in such an individual there can not be any 'obligatory duty'; all work has been at once fulfilled in him. Thereafter, he is free to act or not to act, to serve or not to serve, and lives as a God-man upon the earth. Since he has freed himself from desires, thoughts and actions ,he is no longer bound. Thus he is a liberated soul. Such an individual, rooted in the experience of the Self, and depending upon nothing --neither any being nor any object---for his joy and bliss, has discovered the " Subject " ; the objects-of the world are essentially nothing other than the " Subject " being tossed on the waves of agitations in the mind.

 

 

 

Verse 19 of Chapter3

" Therefore, always perform actions which should be done, without attachment (tasmat asaktah satatam karyam karma samachara);for, by performing actions without attachment, man attains the Supreme

(Asakto hyacharan karma paramapnoti Poorushah). "

 

Here attaining the Supreme is synonymous with Liberation or Moksha. Once an individual attains the Supreme he is naturally free from the cycle of births and deaths and hence Liberarted.

 

(to be continued)

G.Balasubramanian