2007-01-31 16:35:14 · 5 answers · asked by KrishanRam(Jitendra k) 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
An astronomer is watching the stars through his telescope. His wife brings tasty chicken fry... but since the astronomer has found a new star... he is too engulfed in the telescope...and does not care for the chicken...even though it is dinner time.!!
His dog is sitting by ...and thinking... how idiot men are !! aromatic tasty chicken is lying and this idiot is looking at dead stars.!!!
Now who is right ? the dog or the astronomer ??
2007-02-01 18:25:52 · answer #1 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There is a general misconception that attaining Moksha means going to a place where one lives with all sorts of luxuries more than 5 star status in the company of most beautiful Young ladies etc Here one can enjoy without any fear or worry.
Then comes saints who are understood to have renounced all physical pleasures and undergo intense practises to achieve their goal. Thus one gets doubt why a fellow who renounced crave for the company of a beautiful girl like Rambha or Oorvasi for pleasures.
Unfortunately we acquire our knowledge through films, where to make money they go to any extent to project things and misguide people. The damage they cause to the human thought process is irreparable.
The correct meaning of a saint is a person having acquired the essence of the knowledge (Jnana) on what is real and permanent and what is false and impermanent but appear to be real.We call such people as RISHIS. Unfortunately the word saint is taken from Christianity and applied.
The word MOKSHA is to be understood as a status attained beyond pain and pleasure. This means any action or object will not cause either pain or pleasure to him. This is possible only in respect of the people who understood the essence of JNANA.
2007-02-02 02:57:43 · answer #2 · answered by ravipati 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moksha literally in Sanskrit means elimination or freedom from attachment.Among the creation, man has been endowed with discrimination and intellect to a higher degree.Also man is always desirous of happiness.Wordly things including your own relatives etc. can not give you happiness all the time which he fails to recognise or accept because of his attachment towards wordly things..Saints have realised this and are convinced that the only way to true and permanent happiness is not through wordly things but lies in good thoughts,good actions and service to mankind without the desire for any returns. If you expect any returns even in your mind(it is natural for any man) then you fall into the trap of attachment.Any attachment except to God leads to unhappiness or sorrow surely.
Every human being irrespective of caste or religion must have a selfless attitude to living which will give unlimited happiness. We must follow our scriptures and Saints in learning to live without ego and attachment to be really happy.
2007-02-01 00:57:38 · answer #3 · answered by GANESH BHAT 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
friend, everyone wants to happy, tell me who doesn't? yes, we go after cars, women, liquor, wealth...all thinking that we''ll b happy when we get them. but u'll find that u'll only b happy for a small time. thats the truth of our world, nothing lasts, do u think u'll b young forever? u'll b without difficulties forever? no, life pushes us up n down like a ball in a rough sea... the saints realised this n went to find TRUE HAPPINESS. n they've found it. where it is? as we've looked all outside to find happiness n never found it, they turned inwards n found it. HAPPINESS in within. but how to access it? simple, destroy our lust for this world, u have this happiness pouring out. that is moha(lust) + kshaya(destruction) = moksha. moksha is this destruction of this lust. when u realise impermanence of worldly life, u'll understand
2007-02-01 01:13:32 · answer #4 · answered by hari s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1.moksha=free from the cycle of birth and death.
2. I didn't understand ur second question.
2007-02-01 00:54:30 · answer #5 · answered by atre_lucy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋