Abhey Gupta

Tag: Moksha

  • A Step of Life

    In the wilderness of endless graze,
    I see how small I have been.
    Not above the earth or sky,
    but a fragment in the wheel of time,
    a step belonging to the order of all things.

    In the savanna filled with grass,
    I seek myself beyond my eyes.
    The truer self is not this body,
    but the breath that stirs in all —
    I am the wild, and the wild is me.

    Everywhere I look, Mother Nature,
    woven threads of leaf and lion.
    Who am I to worry for myself?
    I am only a strand in the vast fabric,
    a hum of life that sings in chorus.

    Life hides beyond my sight,
    its “why” veiled in silence.
    All I know: the journey is brief,
    a step aside on a winding road —
    yet in this fleeting moment, I am alive.

  • Peace of Mind

    Another day.

    I was delusional, and lost; my wandering mind was trying to contemplate the word “peace,” and its purpose in the context of life. I started reading some articles on spiritual awakening, and later succeeded in reading about Kundalini Tantra — but somewhere in there, my wandering mind was unstoppable in trying to understand the purpose of life, and the many variables tied to it. So I began listening to some lectures, and, as a result, I found a talk by Osho on “Peace of Mind.”

    I found it really interesting. Listen, if it calls to you — and share what you feel.

  • Why Do We Seek It?

    This is the most important question we need to understand — because the why, and the what, behind my saying that everyone is looking for a single end goal (whether they realize it or not) is the very answer that moves us closer to it.

    Suffering is the primary motive at work here. There could be many others, but for the sake of simplicity, am I considering a single motive? I would say yes, and no — because suffering itself is not simple to explain, and it does not even refer to a single thing, or a single action.

    So now the big question is: what is suffering? Is it something we don’t want, or don’t desire? Is it love, hate, or both? Is it hope, despair, or both?

    Pretty confused? So was I — and that is exactly where the search begins.

  • What Is Moksha?

    The question is not about understanding the meaning of Moksha, but about understanding the underlying concept of liberating your state of mind.

    Moksha — also called vimoksha, vimukti, and mukti — is a term in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism that refers to various forms of emancipation, enlightenment, liberation, and release. (Wikipedia)

    But Moksha is not just a word discovered by saints or sadhus; it is, rather, a quiet part of everyone’s life. Believe it or not, everyone around us is working toward a single end goal — call it Moksha.

    What is more important is to understand how easily we choose to ignore it, and mistake one of our milestones for the end goal of life.

    The beauty of it is this: how many times have we wondered why we aren’t happy after achieving something we longed for so long? Why success so often comes with the sadness of it being over? Why it is so hard to come to an end?

    Think again — and I hope you will realize that these were never the real end goals. Moksha was.

    Everything we are attached to is one step toward it. And we will look for the longer answer together, in the articles to come.