Desire for Moksha

[Guest guest]

Jai Jagdambe !

 

Is aspiring for Moksha is a reflection of desire ? Well, I mean to say

that if somebdoy is worshipping for the purpose of Moksha ? Will he be

considered ineligible for moksha since he still has a desire remaining

i.e of Moksha. What I feel is that for Moksha, the person need to be

free of desires.

 

Regards

 

Nitin

[Guest guest]

Dear Nitin,

May the Divine Mother bless you! Sri Ramakrishna

said that " Humans can't live without desires. If you

should have desires, desire for the highest i.e.

liberation. Higher than the desire for Moksha is the

desire to love god for love's sake " . Hope this helps.

 

Pranams,

Prasad

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Nitin,

 

There have been some good comments on this thread. The one that stands

out the most to me is (I forget who said it - sorry) that love of God

for love's sake is higher than the desire for moksha. This is so true.

 

Someone also mentioned that there is a distinction between kinds of

desires. There are essentially selfish and unselfish desires, and

though the desire for moksha can seem to be a selfish one, I don't

believe that it is. How can the desire to be our truest self, to live

as we were always intended to live, be selfish?

 

We cannot live without desire. Life requires that we act, and we

cannot act without desire. Only during worship/meditation/samadhi can

we be without desire entirely, I think.

 

Swamiji once told me that samadhi was not a good goal. On further

questioning he explained that it was not the desire for all that

samadhi is that is the problem, but the act of desiring itself, that

becomes an obstacle to its attainment. There is a letting go that is

necessary. You can use the desire for samadhi for motivation, but it

needs to be somewhere in the very back of your mind. If you are always

" looking for it " , you will not find it.

 

So in that sense, you are quite correct. If you are constantly saying

" Am I free yet? " , you will not experience that moksha. But if you can

use the desire for that freedom to motivate you, but can let it go

when it is time for worship, it will not be an obstacle. That is my

understanding.

 

In samadhi there is only I and Thou, and ultimately only Thou (or I).

Desiring a state of being brings a third object into the mix, and I

and Thou cannot manifest. Loving God for love's sake brings us right

into the proper relationship.

 

Jai Maa!

Chris

 

 

 

 

 

, " Nik " <ntngpt wrote:

>

> Jai Jagdambe !

>

> Is aspiring for Moksha is a reflection of desire ? Well, I mean to say

> that if somebdoy is worshipping for the purpose of Moksha ? Will he be

> considered ineligible for moksha since he still has a desire remaining

> i.e of Moksha. What I feel is that for Moksha, the person need to be

> free of desires.

>

> Regards

>

> Nitin

>