Dear All,
Let us now look at the empty block filled in the flow sheet as much as the empty life of a sadhaka filled with the fire of reaching and realizing God.
MUMUKSHATVA
मुमुक्षुत्वम् किम् ? मोक्षो मे भूयात् इति इछ्छा मुमुक्षुत्वम् –
Mumukshatva किम् – what
is this मोक्षः – liberation मे भूयात् – may it happen to me इति इछ्छा – such a desire.
What is Mumukshatva? “Let me attain liberation”, this intense desire is called Mumukshatva.
मुमुक्षुत्वम् किम् ? What is Mumukshatva? It is longing for liberation. This is the final requisite for a seeker. All the three qualifications of Viveka (discrimination), Vairagya (dispassion) and Shad Sampat (the great six disciplines are not sufficient by themselves).
He should personally have intense desire to
attain liberation. A man who has been tossed about by the vagaries of life;
material happiness, power, possession, property on the one hand; trials and
tribulations on the other and has experienced the good and bad of the world,
comes to the basic question, “What is the aim of my life”? At one point of life
he decides, “Enough is enough. I want to end this mess completely. I want to
free myself from this bondage of life”. Such a feeling is called Mumukshatva.
Mumukshatva is intense desire for liberation or
deliverance from the wheel of births and deaths with its concomitant evils of
old age, disease, delusion and sorrow.
If one is equipped with the previous three
qualifications (Viveka, Vairagya and Shad-Sampat), then the intense desire for
liberation will come without any difficulty.
The mind moves towards the Source of its own
accord when it has lost its charm for external objects. When purification of
mind and mental discipline are achieved, the longing for liberation dawns by
itself.
Dear All,
Once discrimination or viveka between real and
unreal / eternal and ephemeral, source of temporary happiness and eternal joy
really dawns in a jiva, then he develops dispassion / vairagya for the unreal /
ephemeral / temporary source of joy.
With Mind focused on real / eternal source, he
goes on to develop the 6 virtuous qualities explained in the previous posts.
Now, at this stage, the jiva or the sadhaka or
the disciple is bestowed with all the six virtuous qualities and is already
drawn away from temptation to seek anything that is going to fetch him only
temporary moments of happiness.
Thus the platform has been set. The
momentum has picked up in his spiritual journey. His mind has calmed down, his
concentration has increased, mental disturbance is reduced to a large extent
and the mind is at peace.
It is at this stage that the jiva actually
develops intense craving for knowing the ETERNAL TRUTH, knowing which, as our
srutis say, EVERYTHING IS KNOWN!!
The mind is totally focused on taking up intense
sadhana to know
and experience the source of this creation, the very source from
which the creation and everything in this creation has been created, the
very source which sustains this creation and the very source unto which the
creation folds itself, dissolves itself in every cycle of involution or pralaya
as it is called.
Totally fired up with “Mumukshatva”, the
disciple enters the kutir of his Swami, his Acharya and looks up to the Acharya’s
eyes with reverence after prostrating to Him.
More on this most important aspect / process in
spiritual sadhana, MUMUKSHATVA, in the posts to come.
Hari Aum
Tatsat.
