MAYAVI POLITICS OF MOKSA !!

After every 31 Nila, 10 Kharva, 40 Arbuda Man-Years = 31,10,40,00,00,00,000 Man-Years Moksa lapses and Jivatma reverts to the same old cosmic cycle of repeated births and deaths...to attain/strive for Moksa again—so said Maharsi Kapila in Samkhyayoga Darsana. Not a very long period, indeed !! In the state of absolute Samadhi of Moksa, even these many Man-Years vanish in a few moments !!! As we are surviving in Kaliyuga spanning merely 4,32,000 years, only means of attaining Moksa as prescribed in Sarga-12 (12.3.51) of SrimadBhagvad Purana, in Brhadnaradiya Purana (38.126) and in Kalisantarana Upanisad, is through incessant Japa. In other Yuga-s i.e. Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi in Satyayuga (17,280,000 man-years), Yajna in Tretayuga (12,96,000 man-years) and Bhakti in Dvaparayuga (8,64,000 man-years) are profoundly exhaustive and difficult. So the Sadhana of Moksa is tricky, highly sophisticated Maya. 

Moksa is an attainment quite mystical in nature and deceptive too. It is also hierarchical in character. If you succeed in overcoming your attachment for your wealth, you have attained Dhana-Moksa !! If you successfully dissolve your affinity for your son, you have attained Putra-Moksa !! Similarly Putri-Moksa, Damada-Moksa, Patni-Moksa…do exist and attainable too !! These are Moksa-s that belong to lower rungs in the hierarchy/pyramid of Moksa. Next higher order of Moksa-s is the liberation from Kama, Krodha, Lobha and Moha. Still higher Moksa is when you are emancipated from your Ahamkara i.e. Ahamkara-Moksa is then accomplished. Then the stage is set for you to transform yourself into a true Karmayogi. All vicissitudes of life do not even scratch a Karmayogi at all. Such a Karmayogi is now poised to become an ardent Bhakta, almost identical with the Supreme, Absolute Consciousness. He may now claim to have attained ultimate Moksa as he is now entirely at liberty to incarnate himself or decline incarnation altogether. He may eventually, opt for complete coalescence into Param Brhamatma and forfeits his/her individual identity absolutely. So, Param Brhamatma is absolutely Mukta i.e. emancipated !! Thus the Moksa is attained !! Not so really. 

Rg Veda so states – 

अ॒ग्नेर्व॒यं प्र॑थ॒मस्या॒मृता॑नां॒ मना॑महे॒ चारु॑ दे॒वस्य॒ नाम॑ । स नो॑ म॒ह्या अदि॑तये॒ पुन॑र्दात्पि॒तरं॑ च दृ॒शेयं॑ मा॒तरं॑ च ॥ (1.24.2)

‘I invoke auspicious name of Agni, the first among the immortals. May Agni give us back to great Aditi so that I may again behold my father and mother.’

It expresses a deep yearning for rebirth in the vast, boundless realm of Aditi i.e. primordial mother symbolizing infinity and freedom where one can once more see ones parents. 

Samkhya Darsana so states – 

इदानीमिव सर्वत्र नात्यन्तोच्छेदः । (1/159)

Never is there an absolute cessation of the cycle of creation and dissolution precisely as it is now.   

If Param Brhamatma is completely emancipated, why should He impel Prakrti/Maya of creation and dissolution ? As a matter of fact, even Isvara/Param Brhama has not been able to attain Moksa so far !! Moksa is the mirage of temptation meant for us, to impel/goad us into actions. Without this temptation, we lose purpose of every action wrought in our lives. So long as Param Brhamatma was in the state of Nidra-Yoga, He could have jolly well claimed having attained highest order of Moksa !!! But He decided to pull out of the state of Moksa of Nidra-Yoga only to entertain Himself through Maya of Prakrti, through creation and dissolution, entirely dis-compassionately and completely bereft of empathy. So, does the state of Absolute Emancipation i.e. Param-Moksa exist indeed ?? We all are merely His toys/puppets, cosmic instruments for His eternal entertainment. Finally, we boil down to the eternally enigmatic riddle, “What/which is the BEST STATE OF EXISTENCE ?” 

State of Karmayoga is the ideal/best state of existence, far beyond even the state of Bhaktiyoga. State of actions being enacted guided by Cetana alone is the precise definition of existence summed up in चरैवेति चरैवेति from Aitareya Brahmana –

चरैवेति चरैवेति चरन् वै मधु विन्दति । सूर्यस्य पश्य श्रेमाणं यो न तन्द्रयते चरन् ॥ चरैवेति चरैवेति ॥

‘Continue moving, continue moving—only the one who moves finds honey of success/rewards.
Behold glory of the Sun who is never exhausted or grows old as He moves incessantly.
Therefore be on move, be on move.’

Cosmic state of Karmayoga is absolute in nature, absolutely devoid of all sorts of “ifs” and “buts”. So never allow yourselves to be trapped in the Mayavi politics of Moksa at all !! Moksa-Maya is the most deceptive Maya of all.