by Swami
Krishnananda
People say,
"We want moksha, salvation, for which purpose we are practising sadhana."
What is the kind of moksha that we are aspiring for? It is liberation
from the thralldom of this assumed individuality of a physical existence conditioned
by sensory organs. It is actually the longing – mumukshutva means the
desire – to melt down this falsely manufactured individuality in the oceanic
expanse of universal nature. When you become all nature yourself, your moksha
is granted.
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Moksha, liberation, is an enlargement of the consciousness
into the dimension of the widest possible extent, until it reaches a point
where it overcomes even the idea of space and time.
To attain moksha,
so much time is necessary as it is necessary for a drop in the ocean to sink
into the ocean. How much time does it require? It has only to realise that it
is inseparable from the ocean.
"I am what I
am." This is the affirmation of our isolated individuality. Then, there is
no question of liberation. Unless you want liberation, it cannot come.
Mumukshutva is the longing for it. There is only one qualification:
you should want it. Your heart should want it. You will realise that the
psychology of the mind is such that anything that you really want has to come
to you, but it should be really a hundred per cent want. You should say,
"It will come"; then, it has to come, because the mind is nothing but
the object that we think of. The mind is touching the object.
The mind is very
powerful. It is the electromagnetic energy that can draw everything into
itself. Nothing can be stronger than the mind. Nothing is more powerful than
the mind, and nothing can be more enduring than the mind.
"Whoever
thinks of me deeply, undividedly, for such a person I provide everything, and
take care of what is so provided," is a great promise that we read in one
of the verses of the Bhagavadgita. You think of the eternal, and the whole
temporal world will fall at your feet. That is the meaning of this great verse:
ananyascintayanto mam ye janah paryupasate tesam nityabhiyuktanam
yogakshemam vahamyahmam. (B.G.9.22). It is not the son of Vasudeva or
Devaki, Krishna, who is speaking. The whole universe is speaking to you. That
is what is called the Vishvarupa, which Bhagavan Sri Krishna showed. The entire
cosmos is talking to you: "Come unto me. I shall give you what you
want." But you are telling it, "You go away from here. I mind my
business." Then, how will you get anything?
So, mumukshutva
is the longing for the liberation from this limited thralldom of individual physical
existence, and a deep wanting. You have to underline the word 'wanting'. Do you
want it? You will get it. Be sure about it!
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