The journey of life, from birth to death, is simply predetermined with respect to one’s karmic account. Karmic accounts are generated through ignorance and accumulated karma through many births. Due to this Karmic account, a person feels secure with their loved ones (raag) and the same person feels insecure with someone else due to hatred (dwesh). Both raag (attachment) and dwesh (abhorrence) further cause a new karmic account. This is how, with every instance, karma continues to be bound in a never-ending loop, resulting in a vicious cycle of birth and death.
So, for our personal attachment or hatred of any living being, the basis is our karmic account of that being. This account is a kind of ledger account in the balance sheet. If there is an attachment with another person, we have a ‘credit’ balance, and if there is an abhorrence, it marks a ‘debit’. Our account balance gets carried forward in consecutive years and if we want to close the account, then we have to nullify any credit or debit amount.
Similarly, until the account of either attachment or hatred is not settled, we have to take birth, again and again, to pay off the indebted karma or enjoy the credited ones. The story about Maharaja Bharat and the Fawn, deer younglings, from the Ramayana is the best example of attachment to the baby deer and how it blocked the Moksh of Maharaja Bharat for one whole lifetime. Despite being the most beloved brother of the Lord Shree Ram and his renunciation of worldly life, due to his attachment to little Fawn, his next life was lived as a deer- animal, himself.
When all karmic accounts get settled with each and every account holder, meaning every living being, then we get released from this cycle of birth and death and we attain Moksh i.e. complete liberation! This implies, that if we attain moksha, we have no karmic bondage with any living being and hence no attachment or hatred of any kind. When a person has attained Moksh, it means s/he has no karmic account, meaning he or she has no attachment or hatred to their loved ones. This can be simply understood by a mere example of a kite. Until its string is in our hands, the kite is bound, but once we let go of the string out of our hand, the kite is free. It is liberated.
Similarly, the attachment to a loved one keeps the Soul bound. As we let go of the attachment, the Soul is liberated. It attains Moksha. When the kite is free, it means the string is no longer attached to the kite. Similarly, when one attains Moksh, it means there is no more attachment to anything or anyone.
But how do we attain Moksha?
According to the spiritual science of Akram Vigyan, Moksh is in two stages:
1. The first stage of Moksh happens in this very life when Self-Realization happens. We realize that I am really a pure Soul; pure as in free from all attachments; free from anger, pride, deceit and greed, free from the body and the name that we all along believed to be our true Self, our true identity. When we realize our real Self, we attain freedom from all kinds of suffering.
This Self-Realization happens when we meet the Enlightened One, who has the divine spiritual powers to burn the deluding karma that obscures our vision and grace us with the right vision of ‘who am I’. This is called Self-Realization (Samyak Darshan).
When one has attained this first stage of Moksh, the karmic accounts that were bound prior to Self-Realization still remain. Therefore, attachment does remain; but since one has attained Self-Realization, the Self is now separate. The Self is the pure Soul which is free from all attachments.
2. And when all karmas finish, when not a single atom of attachment is stuck to the Soul when the Soul is absolute without any karma on it, one attains Moksha. Then, the cycle of birth and death does not remain.
Let’s understand what our Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan has said regarding this.
- As long as attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) exists, one will not experience the Self (self-realization will not occur).
- Vitraagta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments] is the only way to ‘swim’ across lifetimes.
- As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that give pain to the Soul) have not gone away, one has not attained Vitraag’s religion in the slightest. The religion of the Enlightened One (Vitaraag Dharm) means the absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays).
- The worldly life means a vision with attachment-abhorrence, and with Vitraag (void of attachment) vision is moksha. What is the measure of Vitraag (void of attachment) vision? That which sees the whole world as flawless.
- Is the Self ‘Vitraag’ (meaning free from attachment and abhorrence) or does it have attachment and abhorrence? The Self is Vitraag! So how does one free oneself from attachment and abhorrence? ‘You’ certainly are Vitraag! ‘You’ have not understood how You are Vitraag. So come and understand that from the Gnani Purush (the Enlightened One). Wrong belief has arisen within you due to the pressure of the circumstances in worldly life!
- The disease of the endless lifetimes can be removed through the grace of a Vitraag who does not have even an iota of attachment in him.
rnJai Sat Chit Anand!
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