Moh and moksh

Worth...Ravan sought it from his throne...and ended up devastated...shurpanakha sought it from a man and ended up mutilated...Vali sought it from his revenge...and ended up decieted...Ram sought it from his subjects and ended up unrequited.

This process of seeking worth from the act of possession is what enslaves the person who seeks it. The king who boasts over his throne's possession actually enslaves himself to his association with the throne. The moment the throne goes away...there follows his worth. In our day to day transactions of knowledge, money, power and other such manifestations we fail to keep the subtle gap between possession and witnessing. We try to accumulate, posess and then hoard on the things that we witness. And then later from this pile of our possession we derive our worth. We fail to realise that in this process of attaching our worth to something external to us, we render ourselves vulnerable to becoming unworthy subjected to the tainting of our object of worth. In the entire Ramayan, perhaps only Hanuman was the one who ended content and complacent. This was because he did not derive his worth from some external object. He was a devotee. A person who offered and did not seek. In this process he became the master and not the slave. Hence his worth remained intact in his own hands. To understand further, we should not be Indra(one who seeks all the pleasures) and neither should we be Shiva(one who abandons all pleasures) but we should learn to be Vishnu(one who experiences all the pleasures and yet never attaches to one ).
Similarly I feel that for our bliss to be eternal in nature, we shall forbid from the process of possession and rather shall embrace the process of experience. We are entitled to experience the glory of nature to the fullest and that exactly is what we should do without developing a sense of ownership to those experiences.
The reins of our mind should not be tied to a manifestation of the world(Moh) but rather let loose to roam around and expand further sans any constraint to experience the ether(Moksh).

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  1. So beautiful expressed the essence of these concepts, ideas and stories.

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  2. Very well expressed Suraj. That's a truth. Purpose is what define our actions.

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  3. Great work there.
    How do you come up with such deep thoughts, How do you start writing such articles ?

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    1. That's pretty generous of you sir..thanks...I was following indian epic for a while and mixed it with my querries...deeper ones :)

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  4. Marvellous thought process Suraj! You have captured the Crux of entire epics in few words. We take lives to understand that we come here to serve without getting attached.

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  5. Well written bhai... Thinking to take some weeknd classes fron you now ��

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  6. So true and perfectly described

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