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Re: Is moksha a petty M-word?

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srinivasa sarma • July 17, 2002 


Dear Bhakthas,
It is natural for every one to attain Moksha. In one
sense one wants to attain Moksha to liberate oneself
from all bondages and be at the feet of Lord Krishna.
When great Alwars stress on kaikarya or doing work
here, they stress the importance of doing whatever we
do with the spirit of karma yoga. Unless we develop an
attachment and liberate ourselves from the fruits of
action, we cannot surrender at His feet and do work.
We neek to excel ourselves in whatever we do. That is
possible only with the spirit of Moksha or free from
all bondages of fruits of actions.
 --- "Ramkumar T.G."  wrote: > 
> SrI:
> asmad sarva gurubhyo nama:
> 
> Dear prapanna-s
> 
> It appears that according to our AcArya-s 
> nitya-kainkarya is real goal as opposed to moksha.
> 
> but in his divine works, svAmi SrI deSika refers to
> perumAL in many places as  'mukti-da:', 'mukun-da:'
> etc. 
> For intance, He refers to thiruk-kachchi being one
> of 
> the seven places that confer mukti.
> ("muththi tharum nagar-Ezhil mukiyamAm 
>   kachchi thanil" - aDikkalap-paththu)
> 
> So I feel moksha may not merely be a
> 'kAmya-purushArtha' 
> like dharma, artha & kAma are.
> [...]


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