Mumukshutva
– The Pre-requisite Of Liberation
May
the divine grace and choicest benedictions of the Guru grant you the fullest
fulfilment of your heart’s aspirations, the fullest fulfilment of your life’s
supreme objective, so that you become liberated beings to whom grief, sorrow
and delusion are strangers, (to whom) bondage makes no meaning, death makes no
meaning! That is the goal. That is the objective. May you thus be established
in a state of awareness of your immortal nature and of illumination!
To
be liberated in this birth is the supreme goal. Is it possible? We can
definitely say that it is not impossible. That is assurance enough. All the
great ones have proved that Liberation is possible by attaining it themselves,
and then (only) they have proclaimed that it is possible. What one has
attained, all can attain. You are made for it.
The
keen desire to attain this supreme Experience, to experience this great Bliss
has been highly lauded and recommended by our ancients. This keen longing or mumukshutva
is not considered to be a desire for getting something, for obtaining
something. For, it is in giving up desires for everything else that one
qualifies for such a great Experience.
It
is actually a complete giving away of everything totally, as was the supreme
renunciation that Prince Siddhartha did to become an ascetic in the forest, a tapasvi.
It was the supreme renunciation that Raja Bhartrihari did, that King Gopichanda
did. They had everything that belonged to royalty; they ruled over kingdoms.
But then, they knew that God had sent them here to attain this supreme
Experience; that the prime purpose for which He blessed us with this great
endowment of a human status was precisely for the attainment of this great
Experience. Losing everything that the world has to give, they gained something
that was everlasting – Bliss beyond compare, Peace that passeth understanding,
life that is perennial, everlasting.
This
renunciation is far from being a negative turning away from the world. This
renunciation is precisely fulfilling God’s supreme will. God Himself will
approve of your action. He will shower grace upon you. This is the truth. May
we pray to Supreme Almighty to give us the strength and courage, the clear
vision and the resolution to keep following this glorious path to
God-realisation! May Gurudev’s teachings help us to attain the great
Experience!
Continue to Read
The Attainment of the Infinite By Swami Krishnananda
Renunciation and Transformation by Swami Krishnananda
Fruit from
the Garden of Wisdom By Swami Krishnananda
A Call to
Liberation by Swami Chidananda
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