The Sunday episode on Moksha was quite a different approach
to life than what I am used to, as it explained that whatever we try to win or
thrive for in the world, we ultimately do it for our own happiness, and hence
we should rather find ways to win our own Self rather than the whole world. It
started with discussing how “ego,” something which we often confuse as our
“identity” or “self”. Ego is something we must let go, because we cannot be
worried, anxious or afraid of something we do not possess: it would liberate
our thinking and mindset. Only if we lose our ego, we’d realise that we are the
world ourselves.
Talking of the
“self”, we often again confuse it to be our body, mind, and intellect (and ego
as mentioned earlier). It is critical to understand for liberated mindset that
these are four different components or objects, of which we are the owners or
the subjects; and hence any changes in them should not govern our mindset. The
mind, for instance, is susceptible to suspicion and doubt, and we need to be in
its control in order to keep ourselves liberated. The body is comfortable in
its usual surroundings, but we should realise that our body is not our house,
rather it encompasses the whole world: the whole world is our house. We should
not be attached to our usual comfort zones, rather we should embrace the
changes in life.
In a way, the
liberation I talked of, and the realisation that change is the rule of life, is
the attainment of moksha or total freedom. It is a mental state in which we
understand that everything worldly is ephemeral, and so whilst we enjoy it, we
should know it’d end, but it should not end us – our self, our identity. Our
self is supreme as it is pure, perfect and limitless: in fact the happiness we
search for in the world is our self only; the Happiness is Us.
Regards,
Sukriti
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