Avidya, moksha etc

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Namaste,

Are we all born with Avidya ? Prakriti and Purush are anadi (beginningless) says

Gita. An infant does not have an ego or 'Ahamkar' but as he/she grows older it

develops. How would we characterize the state of an infant ? There are around 6

billion in this Avidya (population of the world) and more are added to the list

everyday. This will continue to happen till there are not enough natural

resources or we get hit by a meteor or there is nuclear war or something else.

The one infinite Brahman is the same "yesterday, and today and forever" and it

does not matter how many live or die in this world, does it ? At the end of my

material life does it really matter whether I lived like Hitler or Mother Teresa

(It definitely matters during my material life) ? I (Shailendra Bhatnagar) am

nothing, Brahman is the only absolute reality. There is neither I nor your nor

me - there is one absolute reality - Brahman. The day my material body

perishes, thats it. Who or what is keeping a record of

what I did in this world ? After all, we say this world is illusory and

mithiya. Is Brahman keeping track of what I did in this mithiya world ? Brahman

is beyond senses and intellect, right ? So the chaitanya bhav (The I

consciousness) in me does not really know what good or bad deeds Shailendra did

here, does it ? It is said ( I believe Prof VK said this), there is a mysterious

knot between the "sthul shareer" (material body) and Jivatma which cannot be

explained. But isn't the term jIvatma erroneous for there is only one Atma - the

Atma ? How can there be reincarnation then ? Dr Sadanandaji says

 

"There is my ‘total bank account’ of karma (saMchita karma), of which I brought

into this life only those that can be exhausted (prArabdha karma) and, if in the

process I make new ones (AgAmin karma), which cannot be exhausted in this life,

these are deposited to my account. Until all vasanas get neutralized, I will

continue taking births in one form or the other. "

 

But where is that bank account and who maintains it ? If there is no

reincarnation, then what is Moksha ? If there is reincarnation, then how does it

happen ?

thank you,

Shailendra

 

 

 

 

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