Role Attachment Bondage or Moha plays in gaining Enlightenment
Role Attachment Bondage or Moha plays in gaining Enlightenment
Attachment... bondage... Moha... state as we may but the meaning
of all three words remains the same. Christians call it water,
Hindus Jala and the followers of Islamic dharma as Paani... the
intent and meaning of all the three is the same.
Now let me explain this concept from the beginning...
If there was no attachment... bondage or Moha... the need for
any soul to traverse a long journey of 8.4 million lives (a
total earthly journey of 96.4 million years) would never have
arisen for the soul within... rather would not have been
required at all. If the God Almighty desired the chain of all
manifestations right from the very first manifestation to the
last manifestation (the 8.4 millionth manifestation... the last
in the series of evolution)... there must have been a most
plausible cause for it. And what was that?
At the time of the Big Bang when the Evolution was just taking
place at the time of start of the creation... all souls got
scattered all over the Cosmos. These souls on their cosmic
journey gathered impurities on the way. Now, to come back to
their pristine purity these souls required to remove the dross
within. Let me take an example...
Let us assume a lump of gold ore weighing one hundred KG. And if
we presume that this lump of gold ore contains one KG of pure
gold then in spiritual terms... this one KG of pure gold is a
single soul (atman as we call it in Hinduism) on its cosmic
journey and it does not have within it powers any means to
remove these impurities. These 99 KG of impurities to be
separated from one KG of pure gold require the requisite mining
process.
And this process of purification of one KG of pure gold from a
lump of hundred KG of gold ore is what we are interested in.
This journey for a human being as we can understand shall get
completed in a total of 8.4 million Manifestations (on the
earthly plane it shall mean a journey of 96.4 million years... a
long journey indeed!).
As we can see above... we need the right machinery to separate
the pure gold from the dross within the ore... every soul
(atman) on its cosmic journey requires a body to work out its
Karma and remove the dross within. Now what is it that keeps the
total entity bound for such a long period of time... is it not
Moha... bondage... attachment which keeps every body attached to
the other and also to materialistic riches of life?
This was necessitated as God the Almighty did not desire the
journey to be completed in a short time. Now, unless and until
we cut through every attachment... Moha... or bondage... can we
expect to get out of the clutches of karma. No, it is just not
possible! To be able to gain Enlightenment within this life we
have to take absolute control over our five senses and finally
the mind. And this is possible only after we have gained
absolute control over any feeling of attachment... Moha or
bondage!
In other words we have to cut across the shackles of attachment
for overcoming the senses and the mind. Simply stated it is easy
to discuss on the topic of attachment but it is the most
difficult part which one has to take control of in this life. To
detach self completely from the bondage of your parents,
teachers, friends, relatives and well-wishers is the most
difficult part of life in the life of a true seeker of
Enlightenment within this life. Why?
A moment before whom you called your dearest son or a
daughter... the moment you have crossed over the boundaries of
attachment... you shall not be able to call your son a son...
you shall also be not able to call your lovely daughter a
daughter. For all the children in the world would have now
become like sons and daughters to you. You shall not be able to
distinguish between your own and the others. The simple divide
which maintained the boundary between your children and the rest
has now collapsed... something really difficult to bear with!
Easily said than done... the path of Enlightenment is the
ultimate goal of every human being... come whatever may! None
can deviate from this absolute and the only truth of life. And
the absolute truth is that the body of a human being is merely a
garment for the soul within and whence comes the time it shall
be cast away mercilessly in the hope of getting a new garment...
a new body... a new manifestation! On the earthly plane someone
dies but on the spiritual level... nothing is lost... all is the
result of the process of evolution taking place every moment of
life.
And the final truth that emerges out is, the soul proceeds on
its cosmic journey truthfully and mercilessly and in the terms
of human beings... we have life and death but in the dictionary
of soul (atman as we call it in Hinduism)... life is a
continuous process... nothing is lost for everything belongs to
God the Almighty. It is but for the soul to shed its dross from
one manifestation to another in order to gain more and more
purity and finally the pristine purity it ever longed for.
Having come full circle... this purified soul becomes
enlightened!
And now the question arises... how-to come out of the feeling of
attachment... bondage or Moha (as we call it in Hinduism). We
have to break free from the clutches of attachment... bondage...
or Moha for ever! And it is the process of Yoga and Meditation
which shall help us in coming free of the shackles of
attachment... bondage or Moha forever.