Dadavani Gujarati Magazine - May 2010

In this issue

The path of moksha obstructed due to Kashaya (Gujarati)
People are trying to attain pleasure, peace and bliss in the life but why they do not attain true pleasure or bliss? The whole world is in kashaya. Kashaya means anger-pride-deceit-greed, all these are weaknesses. That which hurts the self (atma) is all kashaya. Absence of kashaya is verily bliss, that which makes one forget the world is called the bliss of the Self. Anger, pride, deceit, greed, attachment abhorrence, cause a veil that comes over the Self and thus prevents the bliss from being experienced. Your kashayas are your own inner enemies. There are no other enemies on the outside. And those inner enemies are what are killing you; nothing on the outside is hurting you. Our kashayas are the real culprits. Just because of kashaya, a human being feels stress and that is verily why one is not able to experience true pleasure. Freedom from ignorance, ego, is called moksha. You can attain freedom only through the One who is free himself. One can become free from kashayas only when such a Gnani Purush who is free from all the kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed)-vishaya (sexuality), removes your devotion to the worldly pleasure pursuits, and places that devotion into the Self (Brahma) and makes you brahmanishtha (established as the Self). Gnan is that which gets rid of your anger, pride, deceit and greed.