From YOGA To MOKSHA Compressed

- ATMAN IN AVI
FROM
YOGA
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MOKSHA By
Discover the path...

that will take you to your Destination
- ATMAN IN AVI
FROM
YOGA
TO
MOKSHA By
Discover the path...

that will take you to your Destination
FROM
YOGA
TO
MOKSHA
Ravi V. Melwani
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Contents
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 1
PREFACE 3
INTRODUCTION 5
Chapters
1. What Is Yoga? 7
2. What Is Moksha? 11
3. The Journey From Yoga To Moksha 15
4. The 4 States Of Yoga 19

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5. I Discovered The 5 State Of Yoga 23
6. Yoga Versus Bhoga 27
7. This World Is A Leela 31
8. Everything Is Maya 35
9. The Life Of A Yogi 39
10. The Ancient Purushartha 43
11. Dharma 47
12. Our Mind Makes Us Blind 51

Contents
13. Consciousness And The Intellect 55
14. Importance Of A Guru 59
15. We Need Mukti Or Freedom 63
16. The Journey Of PIRLU 67
17. We Need MAGIC 71
18. There Are 8 Stages Of Spiritual Awakening 75
19. The 4 Doors To Liberation 79
20. The Spiritual Jigsaw Puzzle 83
21. The Inner Voyage 87
22. Enlightenment 91
23. From Self-Realization To God-Realization 95
24. What Happens At Death? 99
25. Transcending Karma 103
26. Our Ultimate Goal Is Moksha 107
AFTERWORD 111
POEM 113
OTHER BOOKS BY AiR 117
About The Author
AiR - Atman in Ravi
Started with Nothing, Became Something...

Achieved Everything, Only to Realize, We are Nothing!
AiR — Atman in Ravi, is an Awakened Soul, Transformational

Author, Singer, Philanthropist and Happiness Ambassador.
He is on a mission to help people discover the way to Eternal
Happiness through Enlightenment.
AiR was an iconic entrepreneur who transformed retailing in

India, only to walk away from the mega retail empire he had
created. He shut down his business when he was 40 and started
making a difference doing - Humanitarian, Inspirational and
Spiritual work. AiR opened destitute homes known as AiR
Humanitarian Homes spread across Bengaluru, that today,
care for over 600 homeless and needy people.
Like anybody else, AiR started his life being religious. He built
a Shiva temple in 1995. Subsequently, inspired by his Guru, he
realized that God lives in the temple of our heart and he
changed the name of the temple to Shivoham Shiva Temple. Now,
he doesn't pray to Shiva but prays through Shiva, to SIP, the
Supreme Immortal Power that is nameless and formless,
birthless and deathless, the Divine Power that is everywhere, in
everything. His Realizations resulted in his own
metamorphosis as he realized that we are the Soul, the Atman, a
part of the Supreme Immortal Power. He let go of his given
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About the Author - AiR
name and called himself AiR – Atman in Ravi, which means, the
Soul embodied as Ravi. AiR, now, lives as an instrument of the
Divine, doing His Divine Will.
AiR has founded the AiR Institute of Realization to reach out to

the global community of seekers. As a Happiness Ambassador,
AiR teaches people the Happiness Secret that reveals the way to
Eternal Peace, Love and Bliss.
Based on his Realizations, AiR has authored over 80 books,

composed and sung about 1450 Bhajans and written several
blogs, quotes and poems. He conducts Spiritual Retreats and
organizes talks to help people evolve on their spiritual journey.
He is a TEDx speaker and is often invited to speak at several
organizations, corporates and universities. He conducts daily
webinars on Zoom, Facebook and Instagram Live to help
people realize the Ultimate Purpose of life — Enlightenment.
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Preface
Everybody talks of Yoga. But how many understand what

Yoga truly is? Yoga is that state of Divine Union which leads
one to Eternal Peace and Everlasting Happiness. Instead,
people think that Yoga is just some physical exercise or Asana
and some breathing techniques or Pranayama. They don't
realize that Yoga is a state of being, which liberates one from all
suffering on earth and from the cycle of death and rebirth.
Everybody wants to be happy but we do not discover the true

meaning of happiness. We think success is happiness and so we
run behind success, trying to achieve name and fame.
Ultimately, we may get pleasure, which is momentary
happiness but we do not achieve the state of Eternal Bliss. Very
few people take an exit from the highway of achievement and
reach the state of Spiritual Awakening, known as Enlightenment.
It is in this state of Realization of the Truth that one experiences
the true ecstasy of joy. Some people call it Nirvana and some
others call it Moksha or Salvation. The terms are different but
they all mean the same.
This world is full of suffering. We experience the triple

suffering, the pain of the body, the misery of the mind and the
agony of the ego and this robs our happiness. Only he, who
overcomes ignorance and Realizes the Truth, reaches a state of
Illumination and Realization, which leads to Liberation from
all the suffering and sorrow of this world.
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Preface
What then, is the way to Eternal Bliss? How can one attain
Moksha or Nirvana? The way is Yoga. For one to live a life of
Everlasting Happiness, one must live like a Yogi. But how does
one reach that state of Yoga, living like a Yogi, all the time? In
this book, we will discover the way to Moksha through Yoga.
We will realize that when we are in Yoga, we will experience a
Divine union that elevates us to being a manifestation of the
Divine. We will open our real eyes and realize that I am not 'I',
rather, I am a Spark Of Unique Life, I am the Soul. This
Realization will help us achieve our goal - To be liberated in the
moment of death and attain Moksha, our ultimate destination.
Life has a purpose but not many of us discover the purpose of

life. We just live and die and when something goes wrong, we
cry. Sometimes, we look at the sky and we ask, 'Why?' believing
in the lie that God lives in the sky. When we start our journey
from Yoga to Moksha, we will discover the Power of the Divine
within and go on that inner voyage to discover the ultimate
purpose of our life.
After writing over 75 books on the subject of life, happiness,

purpose and peace, I realized that people do not understand
concepts like Yoga and Moksha, which are essential to achieving
our life purpose. This book will open the door and reveal a lot
more.
If we want Moksha, Yoga is the Way.

Let's discover what True Yoga is and not listen to what people Say!
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Introduction
In today's world, if we want to drive in an unknown country,

it's not so difficult. We can fix a GPS in our vehicle and find our
way. But even after thousands of years, we are unable to find
the way to the destination of our life. We do not know who we
truly are and we do not know why we are here. We all want to
be happy but we experience misery and pain, again and again.
We live, we die and then, we are reborn, and this goes on and
on. We hear many terms like Moksha, Mukti, Nirvana and Yoga
but we don't understand the truth behind life. While we use a
GPS, we don't follow life's GPS – a Guru's Powerful Signal and
so, we lose our way on the highway called life.
Those who are blessed to have a Guru, an Enlightened Master,
discover that the purpose of life is not just achievement. It is
Enlightenment. The way to true happiness is not just pleasure,
but Eternal Peace that leads to Everlasting Happiness. They
discover that the ultimate goal is Moksha, just as they realize
that the way to Moksha is through Yoga.
In this book, we will understand the true meaning of Yoga, just
as we will discover what Moksha truly is. Then, we will embark
on an inner voyage, a journey of self-discovery and reach that
state of Self-Realization.
On that inner voyage, we will discover answers to two
important questions -
1. Who am I?
2. Why am I here?
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Introduction
Anybody can start this journey to Moksha but only a true Yogi
will reach the destination. Who is a true Yogi? How does he
remain in Yoga? What are the various states of Yoga? This book
will reveal it all but then, it's up to us. We can choose either
Yoga or Bhoga. We can either live our life and reach the
conclusion or continue to live in the illusion with confusion.
This world is a Leela, a drama or a show. We are mere actors

who come and go. Unfortunately, we just follow the herd. We
don't fly like a bird. We let people tie our wings with strings and
we cry because we believe in many a lie. This book contains the
recipe to achieve the purpose of life. If we follow our mind, we
will remain blind but if we are sincere seekers, we will attain
Mukti or freedom. We will learn that magic, which defies all
logic and experience a state of Spiritual Awakening. Step-by-
step this book will guide us, through Yoga, to the destination
Moksha.
Everybody must die. But what is the reality? What happens

after death? Where do we go? Will we go to a distant heaven or
hell? Either we can just believe what people tell or we can
follow this book and change our life's outlook.
To go from Yoga to Moksha, we must Transcend Karma.

We must attain Mukti or Freedom, while we do our Dharma.
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Chapter
1
WHAT IS YOGA?
The whole world is talking of Yoga. Is it some magical exercise

of the body? Is it stretching our arms and legs in a mystical
manner that will unite the body and mind? No. There are Yoga
studios all over the world, teaching physical exercises as Yoga.
These are Asanas – Yoga Asanas, a very preliminary step to
reach the state of Yoga.
Yoga actually comes from the word 'Yuj', which means, 'union'.
It is a union between the Soul and the Supreme. Yoga is a state
of being, a state of bliss and peace and a state of Divine
Consciousness. When one is in this state of Yoga, one is away
from all the trials and tribulations of life. Yoga liberates us from
all misery and sorrow. It creates Consciousness in today and
now, and stops us from jumping into yesterday and tomorrow.
Unfortunately, the term 'Yoga' has been misunderstood,
misinterpreted and misused.
People think that Yoga is just Asana and Pranayama, a set of

body postures and breathing exercises but with just these, one
cannot attain the state of Yoga. These may help us to prepare the
body and mind to start the journey of Yoga but by themselves,
they do not constitute what is known as, 'Yoga'.
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What Is Yoga?
Pranayama is a set of breathing techniques. We are taught to

breathe in and breath out and by doing so, we are able to control
our mind from wandering. No doubt, it works! But our
attention is more on the breathing. The moment we stop doing
the breathing techniques, the mind swarms us with thoughts
and the peace that we enjoyed during the breathing exercise,
disappears!
A Saint named Patanjali is famous for his theory and practice of

Yoga. According to him, there are 8 Limbs of Yoga. It starts with
Yama or restraint. Yama are moral restraints or self-discipline.
Then comes Niyama, which consists of observing and following
certain ethics and duties. Patanjali then, spoke about Asana and
Pranayama, physical postures and breathing techniques. These
4 limbs are considered the preliminary limbs that prepare us for
Yoga. We then, get into Pratyahara. This is a process of
withdrawing the senses, just like a tortoise withdraws into its
th
shell. We move to the 6 limb called Dharana or focused
concentration. It is engaging in a thought that leads us into a
state of meditation, known as Dhyana. It is only after these 7
steps that one enjoys Samadhi, a state of Eternal Bliss in Truth
Consciousness. To Patanjali, this ultimate state of Samadhi was
Yoga. In this state of Yoga, one is detached from the material
world and connected to the Divine. Unfortunately, people have
taken only 2 of Patanjali's 8 steps and called it Yoga, which in
reality, is not!
Then, what is Yoga, to a common man? He is fooled into

believing that it is a union of the body, mind and Soul. How can
it be? The body, mind and Soul are already united and that is
what creates a composite human being. The seekers of the truth
go deeper, understand the true meaning of Yoga and then, try
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to be in a state of Consciousness, so as to Realize the Truth.

Living in Truth Consciousness, they try to achieve the ultimate
goal of Moksha, Nirvana, Liberation or Salvation. Without being
in a state of Yoga or being united with the Divine, one is lost in
this material world and cannot contemplate the Divine. It is
Yoga that takes us from Self-Realization to God-Realization.
We all use mobile phones and know how they work. Without a
SIM card, a mobile cannot connect to the network. When we
activate the SIM, it connects to the satellite and we see the
symbol on our screen. This shows that we are connected. Then,
we need to switch on the data in order to let information flow
through the internet. Otherwise, we would be connected but
not be able to communicate with the web world. Yoga is similar
to this. It is the connection of our individual Soul Consciousness
to the Supreme Consciousness. When there is a connection, one
is in Yoga, one is united with the Divine. It is when we are
connected to the Divine in this state of Yoga that we can
communicate with the Supreme. However, if the connection
snaps, there can be no union. We can start roaming because of
the thoughts of our mind and lose the Yogic connection. Don't
we experience how a SIM card sometimes roams and connects
to a wrong network? So does our mind. It is like a monkey that
jumps from thought to thought, only to disrupt our Yoga.
The mind is our biggest enemy. It does not want us to reach that
state of Yoga, for if we do, then in Consciousness, we will
Realize the Truth and the mind will be no more. So, it works
hard to stop us from being in that state of Consciousness called
Yoga.
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What Is Yoga?
Let us understand the essence of Yoga. In this world of physical

pleasures, it is easy to be lost. It is easy to slip into a world of
desires and passions but ultimately, all this does not give us
Eternal Bliss. It is through Yoga that one reaches a state of
Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening. Yoga is meant for
achieving this. It is not just a state of momentary peace and
bliss. Physical exercises and breathing techniques will no
doubt, give us peace but we will experience that bliss, only
momentarily. If we want to enjoy the bliss of Yoga, we must
learn the art of being in Yoga.
People say, 'I am going to do Yoga.' You can't do Yoga! You have
be in Yoga. Yoga is a state of being. It is not some action or
exercise that we can perform. Yoga is tapping into the
Consciousness within that vibrates from the Soul. It is
connecting the Soul Consciousness with the Supreme
Consciousness that we call, God. The Supreme Immortal
Power, SIP, manifests in each one of us as the Soul, a Spark Of
Unique Life. When the manifestation becomes Realization, we
are in a state of Yoga. Yoga liberates us from the body and mind
and in Soul Consciousness, connects us with our source.
Then, we experience the ecstasy of Yoga, peace, joy, love
and bliss.
Yoga is Yuj or Union of the Soul with the Divine.

It is Peace, Bliss and Love, greater than Sunshine!
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Chapter
2
What Is Moksha?
Moksha is Liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth. It is

freedom from reincarnation that happens with Realization.
Normally, every 'body' dies but death is not the end. We are
reborn and this goes on and on.
Moksha is also called Nirvana or Salvation. The terms are

different. Different religions explain the ultimate goal of life in
different ways but the Truth is one. We are not born, just to die.
There is a purpose to our life on earth. There is a deeper
meaning in getting a human birth. Only a human being is
blessed with an intellect to discriminate and achieve Liberation.
Animals cannot attain Moksha. They must be born as human
beings to be liberated from the cycle of Samsara or this world.
Why should we attain Moksha? Buddha, the Enlightened One,

explained it very well. He said that this world or Samsara, is full
of suffering or Dukkha. Every human being suffers. We
experience the pain of the body, the misery of the mind and the
agony of the ego. We all seek pleasure and happiness but we
cannot escape from pain and suffering. He discovered, what he
called, Nirvana or Eternal Bliss. He was born as a Prince, Prince
Siddhartha Gautama. He had all the pleasures and possessions
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What Is Moksha?
one could dream of. Still, he renounced the world, his beautiful
queen, his young prince and the palace to attain what was then
called, Moksha and what he called, Nirvana.
If we want to attain Moksha, we first have to be free from all

misery when we are alive. Only then, can we attain Moksha.
While Yoga will lead us to Moksha, it will first lead us to Mukti or
freedom. What is this freedom? It is freedom from ignorance. It
is also known as the Realization of the Truth. What is the truth
that evades us? A seeker of Moksha goes on a quest with two
very important questions.
1. Who am I?
2. Why am I here?
On a quest for answers, the sincere seekers of Moksha,

Liberation and the Divine, Realize the Truth. They attain Mukti
or freedom.
Mukti means freedom from the ignorance that I am 'I'. It is

realizing that I am not 'I' - ‘I am not the body that will die. I am
not the mind that I cannot find. I am not the ego that says 'I'. It is
a lie. I am the Power of life that is throbbing within. I am a Soul,
a Spark Of Unique Life.’ When a seeker realizes this, it is the first
step towards Mukti in the journey to Moksha. Of course, to
realize this, one must be in Yoga. Otherwise, the mind will
make us blind.
In the pursuit of Moksha, we must first transcend the mind. It is

the mind that causes ignorance. It stops us from that state of
Consciousness which is Yoga. It stops us from contemplating
that this body was not born on the date that is on our birth
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What Is Moksha?
certificate. This body was formed over 9 months in our mother's

womb. This is a scientific truth that nobody can deny. We were
conceived 9 months before as the zygote, the first cell of human
existence. Once we are conceived, we cannot change our
mother. The body is formed and arrives on earth. One day, the
body will die and people will say that we passed away.
When we Realize the Truth that we are not this body, when we
try to find the mind but realize that we cannot find the mind, we
realize that the ego is a false identity. We realize that we are that
Power of life that arrives at conception and departs at death. If
this Realization is experienced not just as knowledge but as a
real internal experience, we achieve Mukti or freedom from the
triple suffering of the body, mind and ego.
One who achieves Mukti is still alive in a body with a Mind and
Ego that says ME. However, a Spiritually Awakened person,
who is Enlightened, realizes that he has a body but he is not the
body. The Mind and Ego, ME, appears to be but it is only the
software of our human existence. One who is self-realized
becomes free from the body, mind and ego. He then, lives as a
liberated Soul till the moment of death.
Every 'body', dies! Nobody can escape death but what happens
at death? In most cases, the body dies but the Mind and Ego,
ME, carries Karma and returns to earth in a rebirth, to suffer
again, the triple suffering of the body, mind and ego. However,
if one attains Moksha or Liberation, he has realized that I am not
the body, mind and ego. I am the Divine Soul. In the moment of
death of the body, the one who has achieved Mukti or freedom
from ignorance does not return in a rebirth because he has
realized that he is not the Mind and Ego, ME, that carries Karma
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What Is Moksha?
forward to another life. The Mind and Ego, ME, is only an

illusion that is caused by ignorance. On this Realization, when
the body dies, the Soul becomes one with the Supreme Immortal
Power, SIP. There is no rebirth and no return to earth. This is
Moksha. In simple terms, if there is ignorance, there is
reincarnation of the Mind and Ego, ME, in a new body. If there
is Realization, then at death, there is Moksha or Liberation from
rebirth and Unification with the Divine.
Most of us just live and die. We don't Realize the Truth of, 'Who
am I?' The moment we are gone, we are reborn. We experience
trauma because we are not free from Karma and therefore, we
have to return to this drama on earth. Our goal is Moksha. Our
goal is not to be reborn but be united with the Supreme. Because
we do not go on a quest to Realize the Truth and because we do
not take the help of a Realized Master or an Enlightened Guru,
we continue to remain in ignorance and suffer. Mukti is the first
stage of Liberation from the triple suffering on earth and
Moksha is the ultimate state of freedom from rebirth. Every
human being has a goal - To realize that he is the Soul and then,
to be united with the Supreme. This is the purpose of our life on
earth.
The Ultimate Goal of Life is Moksha, Liberation from Rebirth!

It begins with Mukti, Freedom from Su ering on Earth.
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Chapter
3
The Journey From
Yoga To Moksha
Moksha is the destination. Yoga is the journey. If we want to
enjoy both, we must take the Yogic voyage to Moksha. Yes, every
moment spent in Yoga is bliss and Moksha is being liberated
from all unhappiness. Moksha is freedom from the cycle of
rebirth and Yoga gives us freedom from all misery on earth.
A Yogi attains Mukti or freedom. Having a deep yearning for the

Divine, a Yogi's love and longing is only for the Supreme. A
Yogi is not enamoured by the beauty of the skin. He is united
with the Divine that is within. But the journey from Yoga to
Moksha is not easy. It is an inner voyage and not many people
succeed in this expedition.
How can we start the journey of Yoga? Anybody can make an

effort but it is about being sincere and committed. It is about
being disciplined. It is about spending time in meditation and
contemplation. The first step is Dhyana Yoga. Dhyana or meditation
is not difficult but Dhyana Yoga is a bit of a challenge. It happens
when the ego disappears and one merges into the Divine. One is
lost in a state of meditative ecstasy. The problem is the mind. It
makes us drift away with a barrage of thoughts. Then, even
though we may be sitting in meditation, there is no Yoga because
the mind is wandering.
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The Journey From Yoga To Moksha
The other way to be in Yoga is through Bhakti or devotion.

When we are deeply devoted and committed to God, it is
possible for this Bhakti or devotion to create Divine Unification.
There are other methods too, like action or using Spiritual
education to bring us to Yoga. Any of the Yogic states can open
the door for somebody, who is new and wants to experience
being in Yoga. Therefore, some people think that Asana or
Pranayama, physical exercises and breathing techniques will
work but until the objective is Yoga, we will slip into Bhoga, the
material world.
There are different states of Yoga and we will cover them in

detail later but unless one lives as a Yogi, connected with the
Supreme in Yoga, one cannot evolve to that state of Moksha.
Yoga leads us to a state of Self-Realization. It leads us to the
Realization that I am not the body nor am I the mind and ego. I
am the Divine Soul. First, this is just knowledge but Yoga helps
in the crystallization of this knowledge to Realization. Then, the
Yogi lives with the Realization, 'I am not 'I'.' The scriptures call it
– 'Neti Neti Tat Twam Asi' meaning, 'Not this, Not this. Thou art
that.' This is a great milestone for one who wants to move from
Yoga to Moksha.
But can Yoga directly lead to Moksha? No, it can't! Yoga will
ultimately lead to Mukti or freedom, when one is alive. Moksha
is possible only in that moment of death. If there is no Realization,
there will be reincarnation. Yoga helps first, in reaching a state
of Realization. It is with Yoga that there is Illumination of the
truth that begins with Purification of thought. However, the
ultimate Liberation and Unification can only happen when we
are freed from the body-mind complex. Therefore, the journey
of Yoga is about being liberated, first, while alive in the state
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called Mukti. How does a Yogi reach Mukti? A Yogi realizes that
this world is a Leela, a drama or a show. We come and we go. A
Yogi realizes that everything is Maya, a Cosmic Illusion.
Therefore, a Yogi lives with detached attachment. Pleasures,
possessions and people do not imprison a Yogi and the one who
passes the test, who does not fail and does not sink in Bhoga,
starts to live a life of a Yogi and moves forward.
The key challenge for a Yogi is to live in Consciousness. A Yogi

learns the art to still the mind and having done so, he is able to
retain the connection with the Divine. One who slips into Bhoga,
becomes a prey to the monkey mind that is jumping from
thought to thought. A Yogi contemplates one thought and
reaches a state of Bliss in Consciousness. Ultimately, a Yogi
becomes Enlightened with the Truth. He realizes, 'Who am I
and why am I here?' He realizes that he is not the body that will
die and the Mind and Ego, ME, is just an enemy of Moksha.
These Realizations take the Yogi, forward in his inner voyage
and make him attain that state of Jivanmukta, where one is free
when alive. Having reached this state and living in Yoga, a Yogi
will ultimately attain Moksha.
The journey from Yoga to Moksha needs one big achievement.

We need to be free from Karma but how can we be free?
Anybody who lives, has no option but to perform Karma. They
may be good deeds or bad deeds. These Karma or deeds
become seeds that cause us to be reborn. A true Yogi transcends
Karma. He realizes that he is not the one who is doing Karma.
He learns the art of letting his actions or Karma become Karma
Yoga. This is the key that will unlock the door to Moksha.
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Is it easy to go on this journey from Yoga to Moksha? No! This is

the most difficult voyage that one can embark in life. But with
the help of a Guru or an Enlightened Master, one can reach the
destination. When we are on this journey from Yoga to Moksha,
it is a Guru, who will take us from darkness to light, help us
overcome our ignorance and help us attain the state of Mukti.
But a Guru cannot 'give' Mukti or Moksha and those who chase
fancy Gurus or who seek Mantra Diksha or some magical words
to chant will never attain Moksha. A Guru can help us in our
journey to Realization but Liberation is a personal effort. It
needs the guidance of a true Guru and the grace of God but
without using our intellect to discriminate, without being
dispassionate and detached, without being disciplined in body
and mind, and without deep love and longing for the Divine,
we will just go around in circles and never attain the destination
of Moksha. While we can attempt to go from Yoga to Moksha,
nobody can judge or evaluate who has attained this state of
Realization, ultimate Liberation and Unification.
Yoga or Union will start our Journey to Realization.

With Mukti, Freedom, we can attain Moksha, the Destination.
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Chapter
4
The 4 States Of Yoga
To reach destination Moksha, one has to live in Yoga or in union

with the Divine. How can one live in union with the Divine,
when we are surrounded by so many attractions and
distractions? A human being is a slave to the body and mind.
Our 5 senses - the eyes, nose, ears, tongue and skin are
constantly taking us into Bhoga or the desires of the material
world. Added to the passions of the senses, the cravings of the
mind take us away from a state of Yoga into a state of Bhoga.
How then, can one live in Yoga? For centuries, the sages and the
saints have prescribed several Yogic methods. These are different
states of Yoga. The aim of each state of Yoga is the same — To
attain union with the Divine. But how can we maintain this
connection? To achieve this, Yoga has been classified into 4
popular states by Spiritual Masters. They guide us on how to
start our day with Yoga and end it with Yoga, without creating
any gap for Bhoga to intercept us.
One can start their day with Dhyana Yoga. When we wake up in
the morning, we have two options – Either we jump into the
material world of action or remain calm in meditation. In the
modern world, most people wake up from sleep and either
switch on their mobile, the television or their laptop. We are so
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attracted to the material world that we do not start our day with
Yoga but suppose one wakes up with stillness, with silence and
contemplation on the Divine, this is known as Dhyana Yoga, or
the Yoga of meditation. A true Yogi will spend between 5 minutes
to an hour in complete silence, before jumping into the day.
This practice to start our day with meditation can help us in our
Yoga.
The second state of Yoga is Bhakti Yoga or the Yoga of devotion.

There are some people who start their day with Bhakti Yoga.
The moment they open their eyes, they try to build a connection
with the Supreme through chanting or Mantra, Bhajan, Kirtan or
hymns. Through devotion to the Divine, they try to remain in
Yoga. What does this imply? It implies that we don't let our
thoughts take us to the trials or tribulations of our life. We
remember the name of God and try to build strength with our
devotion. The fact is that it is not so difficult to start our day
with meditation and devotion, Dhyana or Bhakti and these states
of Yoga are not so much of a challenge, except for those who live
a life of stress and anxiety or who are in depression. For them,
the moment they open their eyes, they experience trauma and
they are transported into misery and sorrow. In fact, for such
people, Yoga can be a good remedy or cure but for those who
are not agitated by thought, the bigger challenge is - How to
remain in Yoga after starting the day?
The next Yoga that is advocated is Karma Yoga. We all do our

Karma or work and we do it with an objective. Most often, our
career is not just an occupation but a profession that makes us
earn money to survive. We all need to earn but some people
make work an obsession. To them, success is everything. They
believe that achievement will give happiness. For them, Yoga
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takes a backseat. And yet, there are a few, who convert their
work or Karma into Karma Yoga. They work but offer their
work to the Divine as a humble offering. Of course, they need to
survive but they are not greedy about getting the fruit as a
result of their actions. They accept whatever comes as they live
as a Divine Instrument, doing Karma with the belief - 'I am
nothing, I do nothing. You, O Lord, do everything.' Karma with
such an attitude becomes Karma Yoga. It creates a union, a
connection with the Divine. In fact, many of us spend most of
our time in Karma. It becomes Karma Bhoga or actions that are
performed to achieve results. But those who are on the journey
of Yoga and Moksha, move from achievement to fulfilment.
They live with contentment. They work to fulfil their need but
don't let it become a greed. They remain in Yoga, with every
action, getting inspiration from the Divine.
What other state of Yoga is known? We have discussed Dhyana

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or Meditation, Bhakti or devotion, Karma or Action. The 4 state
of Yoga is known as Gyana Yoga or the Yoga of education. One
uses reading or learning as a way to create connection or union
with the Divine. Those who want to spend their entire day in
Yoga, keep moving from one state to another and normally
dedicate the beginning or the end of each day to be in Gyana
Yoga or the Yoga of education.
Yoga is one. Some people think that there are different types of
Yoga but in reality, we as a human being, can either be in Yoga,
in union with the Divine or in Bhoga, obsessed by the world. To
remain in Yoga, the world talks of these 4 states - Dhyana Yoga,
Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga and Gyana Yoga. Whatever state of
Yoga that we are in, the challenge of Yoga is to transcend the
ego. The moment the 'I' appears, there is no Yoga. Yoga only
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happens when the ego is Enlightened. The ego dissolves into

nothingness. In meditation, we reach that state of ultimate Soul
Consciousness. In devotion, Yoga reveals, 'I am nothing, you are
everything.' In action, there is the Realization, 'I do nothing, you
do everything. Nothing is mine. I seek nothing.' In the Yoga of
education, we realize, 'I am not I; I am like a wave and the Divine is the
ocean. I am just an effect. The cause is the Supreme.' When we have
such Consciousness or Realization, we are truly in a state of
Yoga. But if we don't, then even though it may appear to be that
we are in meditation or devotion, action or education, it is not
true Yoga and it will not take us to that ultimate destination of
Moksha.
What is important, is to be in Yoga. It hardly matters, which

state we are in. What matters is that we are in Yuj, in union with
the Divine. What matters is that in Yoga, we realize that we are
nothing and we are just a manifestation of the Supreme. This
Realization may start with knowledge but Yoga will help us in
getting that spark of Enlightenment. Therefore, a beginner may
start an earnest effort to be in any one of the states of Yoga. But
sincerity and devotion will lead one to becoming a Yogi, one
who is always united with the Divine.
To be in Yoga, we are taught of States Four,

This connection with the Supreme, will open the Ultimate Door!
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Chapter
5
I Discovered
The 5th State Of Yoga
On my Spiritual journey, I tried to live as a Yogi. I learnt the art
of moving from one state of Yoga to another and I found not just
peace but I could also see myself evolving on the journey of
Spiritual Awakening. I used to spend time in Dhyana Yoga, in
silent meditation, when I woke up and several times in a day, I
would spend time, singing devotional songs or Bhajans, in
Bhakti Yoga. I would get into the day with Karma Yoga and I
found myself spending a lot of time in Gyana Yoga, especially
when I was on my Talaash or my Spiritual quest to
Enlightenment.
I was not just a Jigyasu, who is thirsty and curious for knowledge
but I was also a Mumukshu, who had that deep love and longing
for God and for Liberation. A combination of this probably
helped me when I found myself in Bhoga, sinking in the material
world of desires and passion. Like anybody else, I too was a
slave of my senses and mind but I tried to find a way to remain
in Yoga, that state of Yuj or union, which would ultimately lead
me to Mukti or Moksha.
On my journey, however, I found it impossible to remain in

Yoga for a few reasons. Every time I interacted with people, I
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would lose my state of being in Yoga because it was neither

meditation nor devotion nor was it action or education. My
interaction with people was not falling into any of the 4 states of
Yoga. I cried and prayed to the Divine, as I was seeking freedom
from the world. Though I was still on my quest for Self-
Realization and God-Realization, I had by then realized that I
am not this body. This body would ultimately die and people
would say that I passed away. I was the Immortal Soul that
departs at death. I realized that the body came later. I was born 9
months before. I was conceived as the Soul, a Spark Of Unique
Life that appeared as the zygote. All these Realizations helped
me in my Yogic journey to that point of Self-Realization. But it
was a challenge to remain in Yoga, when it came to intimate
relationships with the people I loved, just as it was a challenge,
when I faced people who appeared as devils. My Realization
was strong enough to understand that every being was
essentially a Soul and not the body that they appeared to be. But
how could I interact and communicate with them, not as those
who appeared as bone and skin, rather with the Divine that was
hidden within?
My deep yearning for the Divine ultimately led me to the

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Divine gift of Prema Yoga, the 5 state of Yoga. What was this 5
state of Prema Yoga?
Prema Yoga is the Yoga of Divine Love. It is the Yoga of Divine

manifestation. Prema Yoga was a blessing from the Supreme,
for me to see God in one and all. And as I could see God in all, I
started to love the God in one and all. This love liberated me
from both the lust for the skin and the hate for the devil that
made me spin in anger and agitation. How did this Prema Yoga
happen? How did it help me in my journey towards Moksha?
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I was deeply in love with God, my Lord Shiva but how could I
love God? I would shed tears in entreaty, out of my love. But it
was only with the grace of God that I found loving people
become my love for God.
I wanted my life to be a life of a Yogi. And when I was seeking

love from God, God made that love appear, first, in my beloved
and thereafter, in every Divine Soul. This was the beginning of
Prema Yoga.
Prema Yoga is not just for the beloved. It is for any living creature.
When we see every Soul as Divine, it allows us to move into the
state of Prema Yoga, the Yoga of Divine Love or Divine
manifestation. We don't react with agitation but we respond
with compassion, forgiveness and love. This is only because we
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are able to be in Prema Yoga, the 5 state of Yoga that I was
blessed to discover.
Whenever I slipped out of Yoga, I remained in that Realization

that everything around me was a manifestation of the Divine.
Every living being made of bone and skin, was in fact nothing
but a manifestation of the Divine that was within. I learnt to
love one and all, despite their actions and emotions. I learnt to
be in Prema Yoga and this changed my life.
Earlier, I would slip from Yoga to Bhoga, from being Spiritually

connected to being disconnected and fall into the material
world but now, I would move from the 4 states of Yoga that the
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world knows to the 5 state of Yoga that I discovered. I was no
more in meditation, devotion, action or education. But I was in
the Yoga of Divine manifestation. I was in Prema Yoga. Therefore,
I enjoyed the bliss of the Divine, manifesting as the Soul. This
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liberated me from having any expectations from anybody. It

also freed me from having conditions with those I loved. These
became the hallmark of my Prema Yoga.
Today, I find it easy to be in Yoga, all the time because I have

been able to transcend the ego that separates me from others.
Prema Yoga has helped me to live with non-duality, realizing
that we are all manifestations of the one Divine. Prema Yoga has
been instrumental in my remaining in Yoga, through loving all
manifestations of God, who are earthly beings, as Divine
Spiritual beings. Now, I don't love the skin but I love the Divine
within and remain in Yoga. Whenever the devil tries to appear
from beneath the bone and skin, I remain in Prema Yoga and see
that beyond the devil, there is the presence of the Divine that is
the true nature of every person.
If one wants to move from Yoga to Moksha, Prema Yoga is a great

way to be united with the Divine, loving every manifestation of
the Supreme as the Supreme.
Prema Yoga is Love for the Divine, beneath the Bone and Skin.
It is unconditional Love that is the Yoga of Divine Manifestation.
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Chapter
6
Yoga Versus Bhoga
When we are en route our ultimate destination, Moksha, we are

sure to come across a roadblock called Bhoga. While Yoga or
union with the Divine is the vehicle to reach the destination of
Moksha, Bhoga or sinking in the material world is the enemy that
creates confusion and stops us from the Realization of the
Truth. Even the Realized Masters are afraid of Bhoga because
often, the senses of the body and the monkey mind fall prey to
the monster called Bhoga that destroys our Yoga and disrupts
our journey to Moksha.
What is Bhoga? Like Yoga comes from the word Yuj, Bhoga
essentially means, to enjoy. But in context of Yoga and Moksha,
Bhoga becomes lust or passion for pleasure that stops us from
our Spiritual journey and makes us sink in the material world of
pleasures, possessions and people. Yoga comes from Yuj or
union and the root of Bhoga is Bhuj or one who consumes or
enjoys. While a Yogi is in union with the Divine, enjoying
Eternal Bliss in Truth Consciousness, a Bhogi is busy consuming
objects of the material world and enjoying pleasures of the
senses. Thus, Bhoga imprisons us in the presence of pleasures of
the material world, possessions that we are obsessed with and
people that we passionately love. These pleasures of Bhoga
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intercept the Eternal Bliss of Yoga and stop us from reaching

Moksha.
Does it mean that a Yogi who is in Yoga must not enjoy the
pleasures of this world? No! A Yogi can enjoy all pleasures,
provided they are accepted as Prasadam - what we receive as a
result of our good Karma. But when we go beyond acceptance
of pleasures and it becomes a pursuit of passion, then we exit
the state of Yoga and sink in the state of Bhoga.
Why is there so much talk of Yoga versus Bhoga? We have

already covered the importance of Yoga. It is the state of being
united with the Divine. It is the state of moving from mind to
Consciousness. It is the state of overcoming ignorance and
Realizing the Truth. The only way to achieve our ultimate goal
and purpose, Moksha, is through Yoga. Bhoga is the enemy of
Yoga. Bhoga is produced by the mind. The Mind along with the
Ego becomes ME and this ME creates Karma, which makes us
entangled in this material world. Because of Bhoga caused by
thoughts of the monkey mind, we are constantly yearning for
material pleasures and this yearning leads us to doing Karma.
These deeds become like seeds, which bear fruit. Therefore, we
are unable to be liberated because we live as the body, mind and
ego, consumed by our passion or Bhoga.
Who creates Bhoga and stops us from Yoga and why? It is the
mind. The mind creates desires, which become Bhoga, which
unites us with the material world. As these desires create a link,
which get us connected to the material world, we become
disconnected with the Spiritual world. This is a big problem!
We forget the essential questions – 'Who am I? What is my
purpose on earth?' We live as the body, mind and ego and enjoy
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Bhoga or the pleasures of the world. One day, we die and return
to earth in a rebirth. Bhoga gets us caught in this cycle of
reincarnation. Unless there is Realization, we cannot escape
Bhoga and for Realization, we need Yoga. The mind opposes the
subject of Yoga and Realization because the moment we are
Enlightened with the Truth, the mind ceases to exist. The mind
is nothing but a bundle of thoughts that is creating desires. It is
the Mind and Ego, ME, that leaves the body at the moment of
death and is reborn. If the mind doesn't create Bhoga or passion
and we succeed in Yoga, taking us to Liberation or Moksha, it
will ring the death knell of the mind. Therefore, the mind
struggles hard and manipulates the senses of the body to desire
and crave, till we reach our grave.
In essence, life is a tug of war of Yoga versus Bhoga. If we live in

Yoga, we can be liberated from this world, a merry-go-round of
pleasure and pain and be united with the Divine. However, if
we live in Bhoga, we will live and die in this rollercoaster called
life, only to be reborn, and this will go on and on.
What is the purpose of human existence? It is to attain Moksha.

What is the way to attain Moksha? It is Yoga. When Bhoga
appears, it becomes the other side of the see-saw that pulls us
down in Bhoga. Those who overcome Bhoga or desires are
blessed to live with contentment and fulfillment and move
towards the ultimate goal of Enlightenment. But as long as
there is Bhoga, there cannot be Yoga. We have to make a conscious
choice and it takes a lot of effort to destroy Bhoga and be in Yoga.
As long as the mind continues to crave like a monkey, the

monkey mind will stop us from becoming a monk, who lives in
Yoga. To be a monk, we have to stop desires and passions. We
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have to cut the tail of the MonkEY Mind, the EY that is Ever-
Yelling and Ever-Yearning. Then, we can move from Bhoga to
Yoga.
A Yogi is constantly aware of the perils of Bhoga. A Yogi knows

that nothing is mine. Nobody is mine. I come with nothing. I go
with nothing. A Yogi knows that Bhoga can make him think,
blink and sink! So, he doesn't get into Bhoga. He lives a pure or
Satvik life, enjoying peace and bliss, without falling into the trap
of Bhoga, which is desire for pleasure.
Yoga or Bhoga? It is an important choice that we must make in

life. One is day and one is night! One is wrong and the other is
right. One will unite us with the Divine and the other will take
us towards the devil. When we are in Yoga, we can see the
enemy Bhoga and destroy it but when we are in Bhoga, the mind
stops us from seeking Yoga and Moksha. Thus, the majority of
humanity runs after success, achievement, money, name, fame
and pleasure. They miss the union of Yoga, the real treasure as
they run after the pleasure of Bhoga and sink.
We can choose the Desires and Passions of Bhoga,

Or be Liberated from the enemy and live in Yoga.
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Chapter
7
This World Is A Leela
What happens in a drama? Actors come on the stage, do their

part and they go. That's what happens in a show. But we don't
realize that this world too is nothing more than a mega drama.
The earth is a humongous stage. We are actors. We come and
we go. Unfortunately, we don't realize that life is a drama. It is a
Leela.
What is the meaning of Leela? The ancient sages and saints have
repeated this several times that while we think that this is 'my'
mother, father, husband, wife, house and car, in reality, nothing
is mine. It's like a movie. It appears that all these are mine but in
reality, they are not. We did not bring anything with us and we
cannot take anything with us when we go, just like in a show,
when finally, the screen will display 'The End'. We have to leave
behind even this body that we think is 'me'. Nobody can escape
from this Leela, this drama. Because of our ignorance, we
experience trauma because we don't realize that life is a drama
and everything is unfolding as per Karma.
Isn't it true that in a drama or a movie, an actor has to perform

his role as per the storyboard given by the director? So also, in
this Leela called life, we have to play our part as per the direction
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of Karma. Did we choose our birth? Did we decide how we

came to earth? No. Nobody did. But then, how did it happen? It
all happens as per the Divine Leela. And everything is
controlled by Karma. What is Karma?
Karma by itself means, action but in a macro sense, Karma is a

Universal Law, the Law of Action and Reaction and the Law of
Cause and Effect. Everything that is happening in this Leela
called life, is happening as per Karma - both our past Karma
and our present Karma. The past Karma has already been done
and cannot be changed and will happen no matter what. But
our present Karma is still in our hands. The Leela of life is a
combination of both. We can change our present Karma, just
like any actor can choose how he acts. By the Divine grace and
the freedom of choice, we can, with our willpower, change our
Karma and change our destiny in this drama called life.
Actors come and actors go in movies and dramas and the same
happens in this show called life. We are not going to be here
forever. Just like an actor acts in many movies, we too will be
reborn and this will go on and on. An actor may die in one
drama but then, he comes alive to play a new role in the next
drama. So also, it happens in this Leela. This body that we wear
is not our true identity. One day, we will give up this costume,
our name, our relationships and our possessions. We will leave
this earth but we will return in a rebirth. Such is the Leela of life.
In a drama or movie, the blood that is spilt is red sauce. But in
the life drama, we experience both pleasure and pain, sun and
rain, loss and gain. We all feel glad, just as we feel sad. But we
are mad. We don't realize that we have an opportunity to be free
from the trauma of this drama. We don't realize that if we
transcend Karma, we can attain Moksha. And this is because we
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don't learn the magic called Yoga. If only we live like a Yogi, we
can be free from this Leela of life and attain the ultimate goal of
Moksha.
Every human being has one purpose in this human existence - It

is Moksha or Liberation from returning to this Leela. Some call it
Nirvana, some Salvation. Ultimately, it is becoming one with
the Divine. However, instead of discovering the purpose of this
human birth, we are having fun on earth and we forget to
realize, 'Who am I and why am I here?' We are having so much
fun in this drama, this Leela, that we forget that eventually, we
will suffer the pain of the body, the misery of the mind and the
agony of the ego. Very few amongst us live in Yoga, where we
witness this drama from an aerial view. We become an observer,
living in Awareness and Consciousness and realize that we are
not the body, mind and ego. We are the Divine Soul. We realize
that life is just a Leela, a drama. It is not real. Then, we become
free from the entanglements of this Leela and achieve Mukti or
freedom, the preliminary stage of Moksha.
What happens in a drama and a movie? Suppose an actor gets

married to a very pretty actress. When the shoot is over, does
the actor go to his house, back to his family or does he go with
the actress, whom he married in the film? 'Ridiculous!' we may
say, 'That was just a movie! How can he go with the actress?'
The actor knows that the marriage in the movie was just an act.
It was not real. Because the actor knows it's just a movie and this
act actually did not happen, he goes back home. But because we
do not realize that in reality, we are the Divine Soul, we don't go
back home to our heavenly Creator, the Supreme Immortal
Power and we stay on this stage called the earth and continue to
live with attachments and suffer heartbreaks. We run after
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success and achievement, trying to be an ace in this race and we

are so busy in this chase that we do not live with grace and enjoy
peace, the very foundation of happiness. We are so enamoured
by the glitz and glamour of the material world that we get
immersed in it. We feel that this Leela is not like a drama. We feel
that the world is real. We forget that we have to attain Moksha
and we do not live in Yoga.
What is the Ultimate Truth? Can we deny that we cannot escape

death? No. The body will die and our near and dear ones will
destroy it. People will say that we passed away but who passed
away? Where did they go? Will they come back in a
reincarnation? We mumble and fumble with the truth. We
know that after a drama, the actor goes home and returns to
perform in the next drama or show but we don't understand the
simple Law of Karma and don't contemplate birth. Why does
somebody come to earth as a little child that is blind? Is it
because God is not kind? No. We are fooled by our mind. If we
want to realize the truth that this world is a Leela, we need Yoga.
We need to flip from a state of mind to a state of Consciousness.
We need to use our intellect to discriminate and Realize the
Truth. Because we don't live in Yoga, we continue to think that
this Leela is real and we suffer on earth and return in a rebirth.
We are reborn and this goes on and on.
This World is a Show; it is nothing more than a Drama.

We don't realize that it's Karma, thus we experience Trauma.
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Chapter
8
Everything Is Maya
What have we been taught from the time when we were kids?
We have been taught that there is a God and each one of us
believes in our personal God. We believe the lie that God lives
in the sky. Then, we go on to believe that God has created this
universe. We accept without protest and we don't ask, 'How
and Why?' If God created this magical universe, where did the
raw material come from? Did God create the 5 elements - earth,
water, fire, air and space? Where did these elements come from
and ultimately, where did God come from?
A true seeker or a Jigyasu lives with curiosity and asks

questions. Only such a seeker Realizes the Truth that this world
is a Cosmic Illusion. It appears to exist but in reality, it is
nothing more than a projection. The seeker follows the ancient
wisdom that everything is Maya and reconciles it with modern
science through its branches of Quantum Physics and
Quantum Mechanics, which advocate the theory of Wave-
Particle Duality. In 2022, the Nobel Prize was conferred upon 3
scientists, Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for
their work in Quantum Physics and Quantum Mechanics. After
so many centuries, science has reconciled with Spirituality.
Science has always believed in the material world of proof. But
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now science and Spirituality, both have synergy. Science and

Spirituality, both believe that the whole world is nothing but
energy.
What are both science and Spirituality talking about?

Spirituality says that this world is Maya. It means everything
that appears to be reality is nothing more than a projection.
A villager once came to the town and his friend took him for a movie.
While they were watching the movie, the villager was asked, 'What do
you see?' The excited villager replied, 'I see horses!' It was a movie on
war and his friend asked him, 'What else do you see?' 'I see elephants,'
he replied. 'No,' said the friend, 'Look deeper. What do you see?' The
villager contemplated and said, 'Deep within, I see the skies with a lot
of dust.' As they were talking, it was interval time. 'Now what do you
see?' the friend asked. The villager said, 'Now there is nothing. It is
just a blank screen.' Just like the villager was seeing all the
projections on the screen, we see the projections that create this
world and we think that they are real but in reality, everything
is a projection. You and me, the butterfly and the bee, the tree,
the mountain and the sea, everything is nothing but energy. We
human beings begin our journey as the Soul, a Spark Of Unique
Life. Then, the cell multiplies and we become 2 cells and then 4
and then 16 and so on till ultimately, we arrive on earth as a 25-
billion-celled baby. But what are we, in essence? We are
nothing but energy. When the energy departs, we are declared
dead. There is no breath. Then, we disintegrate into the 5
elements of nature.
What are these 5 elements of nature? Each of these 5 elements of

nature is, in essence, nothing but energy. Earlier, science used
to talk about how every molecule of every inanimate product
contained particles of energy within. Today, science, in its
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experiments has proved that every particle of matter is energy

and it is from energy that this entire inanimate world arises.
Therefore, what are both Spirituality and science telling us?

Both science and Spirituality are telling us that this entire
world, the earth, the oceans and the skies are nothing but
energy. All the 8 billion people are nothing but energy. The
animals, the birds, the aquatic world and the insects are all alive
because of energy and when the energy departs, what is left
over is dead matter, which too, is nothing but energy.
Therefore, what is this entire world? Energy!
Haven't you heard scientists say that they know only less than
5% of what this universe is made up of? According to science,
more than 95% of the world is, what they call, the dark matter or
the dark energy. In reality, this is what Spirituality has been
saying for thousands of years. Spirituality calls this Maya and
science calls it a projection or an illusion but the truth is simple.
Everything in this world is nothing but energy. A Yogi who
lives in Yoga, realizes this, till he achieves the ultimate goal of
Moksha. What does the Yogi realize? He realizes that in a gold
jewellery shop, we see a bangle, necklace, a chain or a ring but in
reality, there is nothing else but gold in everything. These
ornaments may appear to be ornaments but they are not what
they appear as. There is gold in everything. If you remove the
gold, there is nothing, no chain, no ring. These pieces of
jewellery are just an effect. The cause is God. This is Maya. We
forget the gold and we say that it is a ring. But in reality, if you
remove the gold, there is no ring. The ring is just a manifestation
of the gold. We understand this clearly but we don't realize that
we are all manifestations of the Divine. We are all effects. The
cause is energy, Divine energy. Spirituality calls it SIP, a Supreme
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Immortal Power and science calls it the universal energy.

Whichever way we see it from, the truth is that the world is
Maya. It appears to be something that it is not.
Maya, the Cosmic Illusion has two Powers. First, it conceals the
truth, like a movie conceals the screen. Then, it projects the
myth and we see this drama, this Leela, this show, as real. The
ultimate reality is that the world is nothing but energy and this
energy is nothing but the Divine Power that we call, God. This
world is a manifestation of God and not a creation of God.
Everything that we see in this world has not been created by
God. God is appearing as the sun, the moon, the stars, the birds,
the animals and the flowers.
Why do we find everything in this world so beautiful? The

sunrise and the sunset, a beautiful flower that smiles? Our cute
pet dog that wags its tail? We see all the beauty but we don't
realize that it is Maya. Beauty is Divinity. It is the Divine,
Supreme Immortal Power, SIP that is manifesting as all the
beauty in this world. The moment the Supreme Power departs,
all the beauty disappears because the beauty is nothing but a
manifestation of the Divine. Everything is Maya.
Because Maya projects the Illusion, we only see the Skin!

We don't know that it's an Illusion, the Divine is Within.
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Chapter
9
The Life Of A Yogi
On the journey to Moksha, only a Yogi passes the roadblocks of

Maya and Leela, and lives in a state of Yoga. Others sink in Bhoga.
It is not easy to be a Yogi but once we reach that state of being,
then the way to Moksha gets cleared. It all starts with
Mumukshutva, a deep love and longing for the Divine and for
Liberation. It is this passion, this obsession for a personal God
or faith in the Supreme that leads one to a state of Yoga. Without
being a Mumukshu, it is very difficult for a Yogi to remain in a
state of Yogic Consciousness.
Some people have a lot of Jigyasa, the passion and curiosity to

Realize the Truth. They go on a quest, a search or Talaash. They
ask questions like - What is Moksha or Nirvana? How can we
reach that state? Does God truly exist? Who is God? Where is
God? What is God? A Jigyasu finds his way to Yoga by first,
starting a quest. He tries to understand the truth of the Soul,
Karma and reincarnation. The process of this quest starts his
journey as a Yogi but unless one is able to be in that state of
Eternal Yoga, one cannot be a Yogi.
With Mumukshutva and Jigyasa, the yearning for the Divine and
the thirst for the truth, one spends time in Dhyana Yoga or the
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Yoga of meditation and Gyana Yoga, the Yoga of education.

While the Jigyasu, who has a passion for Realization may not
spend time in Bhakti Yoga or the Yoga of devotion, a Mumukshu
will be immersed in his faith or Bhakti, another state of Yoga.
But unless one lives in that Yogic Consciousness, also referred to
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as Chaturyam or the 4 state of Consciousness or Samadhi, a state
of Mindfulness and Awareness, one can easily slip into the
material world of Bhoga and lose the Divine Consciousness that
makes one a Yogi.
How does a Yogi live his life? To be in Yoga or Yuj or in union

with the Divine, a Yogi gives up clinging on to the material
world. He is free from the prison of pleasures, possessions and
people. He starts to realize that this world is an illusion, a
manifestation of the Divine and he has to move towards Moksha
or Liberation. Therefore, a Yogi seeks Mukti or freedom. It is not
guaranteed that every Yogi will be liberated but no doubt, one
who lives as a Yogi is qualified to attain that rare feat.
A Yogi lives in Yoga. His life moves from one state of Yoga to
another. It hardly matters to the Yogi, whether the Yoga is
through Bhakti or devotion or Karma or the Yoga of action. The
hallmark of a Yogi's life is that it is devoid of any Bhoga, desire
and passion for the material world. Therefore, a Yogi moves
from one state of Yoga to another, without losing the Yogic
network. Meditation, devotion, action and education, these are
the 4 common states of Yoga through which, the life of a Yogi,
passes. He has the Realization and the Illumination that keeps
him tied in Yoga. He may or may not practice Asana and
Pranayama, the physical posture or exercise and breathing
techniques but for sure, a Yogi spends a lot of time in silence.
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Meditation is the raw material for Realization. The Yogi goes

through all this to remain in Yoga.
When I tried to live a life of a Yogi and there was a deep and
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intense love for God, I was blessed with the 5 state of Yoga, the
Yoga of Divine manifestation or Prema Yoga. In this state of
Yoga, my Realization led me to see the Divine in one and all, to
love everyone as God and to serve the suffering humanity as
manifestations of the Supreme. Therefore, my Yogic experience
had expanded and instead of the Bhoga of lust for the skin, I
started to love the Divine that was within. It made my life of a
Yogi more sorted because then, it was easy not to slip into Bhoga
and I saw everybody as a manifestation of the Divine. Thus,
Prema Yoga or the Yoga of Divine manifestation has made my
life as a Yogi, successful.
Do I never fall out of Yoga? As long as we are alive, there is

always a possibility for the rascal mind to shoot toxic thoughts
and pull us out of Yoga but a Yogi will not fall into Bhoga. Even
though the Ego, along with the Mind, becomes ME, a Yogi
Realizes the Truth that this is all Maya. He enjoys the Leela,
remaining united with the Divine. So, when my monkey mind
swings to a toxic thought, I don't get caught. I remain in
Consciousness, as a Yogi.
Normally, I start my day, when I wake up with silence or the

Yoga of meditation. I spend time with God, in the Yoga of
devotion. Then, my entire day is spent working as a Divine
instrument, which becomes the Yoga of action. I make sure that
I spend time in updating my education in Yoga or union with
the Divine. Whenever I am in the Samsara or the world, I see SIP,
the Supreme Immortal Power in every human being, in every
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bird and even in my pet dog and I remain in Prema Yoga, loving
the Soul as SIP. This helps me transcend the maladies of the
mind.
What are the signs of being a Yogi? A Yogi's life transcends fear,
worry, stress, anxiety, regret, shame, guilt and depression. It is
very rare for a true Yogi to express anger, hate, vengefulness
and jealousy. This only shows that the Yoga is very weak and
the Yogi can become a Bhogi, if this happens. My personal
experience has taught me that while it is not easy to live a life of
a true Yogi, if one is truly committed to the journey of Moksha,
one can live in Yoga, transiting from one state of Yoga to
another, without slipping into the material world of Bhoga.
However, true Yogis are rare. Those who are not fully
enlightened, get enamoured by the glitz and glamour of the
material world and get lost in Bhoga.
A Yogi's life is a life of Peace and Eternal Bliss. It is a life of

Divine Love. A Yogi lives in Truth Consciousness, free from the
prison of the Mind and Ego, ME. Even the pain of the body
doesn't cause a Yogi, deep suffering because he is not clinging to
the material world but to the spiritual world, the world of the
Divine, which he realizes that he is a part of.
The Yogi moves from One state of Yoga to Another,

He doesn't Sink in the world and of Bhoga, become a Prisoner.
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Chapter
10
The Ancient Purushartha
What is the meaning of Purushartha? Translated, Purushartha

means, ‘Meaning or Purpose of man’. In the ancient days, sages
and saints would advocate that Purushartha was to be attained
in 4 stages — Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha.
Man was to live life attaining these 4 Purushartha. The first was
Dharma, which has no literal translation. It is basically living
with righteousness, ethics and moral values. Then, man should
attain economic prosperity or Artha. This called for man to take
up a profession or an occupation. Every man would then want
Kama. Most people think that Kama is just lust but Kama also
encompasses pleasure, passion, love and the desire for
happiness. While the purpose of life was Dharma, Artha and
Kama, the ultimate purpose was Moksha. Every man had just one
ultimate objective. It was to be liberated from all suffering on
earth and then, be free from the cycle of death and rebirth.
The concept of Moksha has been around for time immemorial. It

is not a new age phenomenon. The Hindus call it Moksha, the
Buddhists call it Nirvana and the western world calls it Salvation.
This ultimate purpose, has been prescribed for centuries.
Unfortunately, we have forgotten that the purpose of our life is
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Self-Actualization. It is evolving from Self-Realization to God-

Realization.
Today, man struggles because the modern world has become so

much more glamorous and there are so many more material
pleasures offered to him. Therefore, it is natural for man to
forget Moksha. It is not surprising that man puts Yoga as the last
priority. However, in this chase to be an ace and in this race for
materialism, man is forced into Spirituality because he is living
a life of fear and stress, worry and anxiety. Therefore, he wants
peace. He is not satisfied with the pleasures of money or Artha.
He is not hijacked by Kama, or passions for very long. He lives
like a yoyo, being glad and sad in cycles. Some resort to
meditation, while others resort to exercises or Asana and
breathing techniques or Pranayama, which they believe is Yoga.
This modern-day Yoga gives some sense of peace, which man
enjoys but alas! Man does not pursue true Yoga that can lead
him towards Mukti and Moksha.
No doubt, times have changed and the 4 quarters of life that were
prescribed during the time of the ancient Purushartha, are not so
relevant today. In the good old days, people would start their
life with Brahmacharya. Their education was as per the Gurukul
system where they were taught to walk with God – Brahma
Charya or God-walk. This was considered to be the first Ashrama
or stage of life. Then, one would move on to the second stage -
To live like a householder. This was called Grihastha. Here, man
would get married, build a family, earn and spend but this was
just the second stage. In the ancient days, man would then
move to the third stage called Vanaprastha. This literally means
to live as a forest-dweller or a hermit. Man would then, prepare
himself for the ultimate stage of renunciation and godliness
called Sanyasa.
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While man would go through these 4 Ashramas or stages of life,

he would try to evolve in the second half of his life, so that he
could ultimately achieve his spiritual evolution. From the very
beginning, man was expected to pass through these stages but
ultimately, every householder was to abandon his attachments
and achieve Moksha or Liberation, the ultimate goal and
purpose. There were some amongst society, who would not
become a householder. They would jump straight from the
learning stage of Brahmacharya to the spiritual stage of Sanyasa.
Even today, living a modern life, man spends his 4 quarters,

either living a material life or evolving on the spiritual path. In
the first quarter, we all learn, just like ancient day students
would be in Brahmacharya. While they moved into Grihastha, we
move from learning to earning. Unfortunately, we get so
trapped in pleasures that we forget what we should be doing in
the second half of our life. We learn and we earn but we don't
turn to Spirituality or yearn for the Divine. What do we do
instead, after we learn and earn? We burn and return and this
goes on and on, as we are reborn. We don't live in Yoga and we
don't achieve Moksha. Therefore, we don't achieve the purpose
of human life.
The ancient Purushartha is as relevant today, as it was centuries

ago, for life has not changed. Every 'body' dies, just as we do our
Karma and we are born. While the pace of our life race has
changed, the purpose has not. We all wanted happiness in the
ancient days, just as we want pleasure today. In the past, we
had many Gurus or Spiritual Masters, who would lead us on
the path of Spirituality. Today, such Enlightened and Spiritually
Awakened mentors are few but we can still embark on the
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journey of Moksha, our ultimate purpose through Yoga or being

in union with the Divine.
Some of us get inspiration from the ancient teachings like the

Purushartha and the 4 Ashramas. We explore the principal
statements of the Vedas and Upanishads - The 4 Mahavakyas and
find a Master or Guru, who can take us from Gu to Ru, from
darkness to light. But the rest of us will just live and die. We will
not discover, 'Who am I?' nor will we find out why we came to
earth and what is the purpose of this human birth.
It's time to reflect, to meditate, to introspect and contemplate

and get to our Purushartha, our ultimate meaning and purpose
of life. There is a purpose for our existence and our purpose is to
discover that purpose. There is Artha for Purusha. There is a
meaning to man's life and if we don't find out the Purushartha,
we will never attain Moksha, freedom from rebirth and from all
suffering on earth. It's time to start our life with true Yoga.
If we don't find Purushartha, Man's Purpose of Life,

We will Learn, then Earn but end up with Misery and Strife.
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Chapter
11
Dharma
What is Dharma? The word Dharma has no single definition. It

has evolved over time and while the original meaning of
Dharma may be something else, in today's world, Dharma can be
understood as our life purpose, our duties and our
responsibilities. Dharma is a set of rules, laws, ethics and
morals, with which, we must live. To the Hindus, it is the right
way of living. To the Buddhists, it is the Cosmic Law in order and
so, it is different for different people. While no English words
define Dharma, we can explain it as the path or philosophy
human beings must adopt and live by, to achieve our ultimate
purpose of existence.
The word Dharma can be very confusing but it is important to

understand what it means, to reach the ultimate state of Moksha.
If one does not follow Dharma, one cannot do right action or
Karma and he will experience trauma, the triple suffering of the
body, mind and ego. Therefore, Dharma is the key to Yoga or a
state of union that will lead to Moksha. Without Dharma, we
cannot even imagine being in Yoga, in union with the Divine
because without Dharma, we will sink in Bhoga, the material
world and never achieve Moksha.
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Dharma
Therefore, Dharma is the first of Purushartha or the 4 steps of the

ultimate purpose of Moksha. Before one can get into the material
world, one must build the right foundation or Dharma. If the
Dharma is wrong, the path is wrong. Then, where is the question
of reaching the destination? Therefore, building a base
philosophy of the right values, morals, ethics and understanding
life becomes the right Dharma that will take us to Moksha.
To understand Dharma, let us for a moment imagine a life

without Dharma. Let us imagine somebody living without any
ethics, moral values, duties, responsibilities, obligations,
meaning and purpose. What would their life be? One would
drift like a sailboat and reach nowhere. Even a sailboat needs to
be managed as per the winds, sun and the waves to reach its
destination. So also, life needs Dharma, a way to live, a philosophy
to act and some principles on which, we can moderate our
choices. Dharma provides this. Without the basic foundation of
Dharma, there can be no Moksha.
Those who go deeper into the concept of Dharma, realize that it

is Sanatana or eternal. Dharma is the very inherent nature of the
Truth or reality. It is based on certain natural laws and it
prescribes the right behaviour we need, in order to live
meaningfully. It is a combination of our rights and privileges,
just as it is guided by duties and laws.
Unfortunately, many people have confused the term Dharma

and thus, there are several conflicting understandings of
Dharma. Some people think that it is just duties as per our
religion and this often takes one away from the right path of life.
Sometimes, the misunderstanding of Dharma makes us a slave
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Dharma
to rituals, dogmas and superstitions and we are warned that not

following these will be Adharma or sinful acts.
If one wants to benefit from the true meaning of Dharma, one

must link it to the Eternal Truth and follow Sanatana Dharma,
not as it has been over the years, diluted or concocted but stick
to its original meaning as understood by our intellect in
Consciousness. Today, we are told of the Dharma of a father, a
son or a king. This has diluted the meaning of Dharma and has
taken us away from our essential Dharma of attaining Moksha.
What is our Dharma? Each one of us is born under different

circumstances and may have different worldly responsibilities
but the original and the eternal Dharma is Moksha. Whatever we
do, as per our understanding of Dharma, if that makes us drift
away from the ultimate goal of Liberation and Unification with
the Divine, which is nothing but Moksha, it cannot be our
Dharma. Whoever we may be, whatever we may do and
whatsoever may be the circumstances of our life, there can be
nothing more important than Moksha. Therefore, to conclude,
our Dharma is Moksha and to attain this Dharma, we must be in
Yoga. Therefore, our Dharma becomes Yoga.
No doubt, we all live a life with worldly duties, we have

responsibilities to fulfil and we cannot be irresponsible or
indifferent to circumstances that surround us. But if we get so
engrossed in the world, we will be so lost in Samsara or this
material world, that we will not realize that it is just a Leela, a
show and everything is nothing but Maya, a Cosmic Illusion.
Unless we live with the right Dharma, we will not live in Truth
Consciousness and we will lose the very gift of this precious
human life.
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Dharma
We human beings are the only blessed species who can

understand our Dharma and attain Moksha. A dog, a frog, a cat
or a rat, do not have a fully developed intellect to understand
and discriminate. Only we human beings can pray, evolve
and realize the Divine within. But if we use our senses and our
animal instincts in life, we will live without Dharma and never
attain Moksha. Therefore, a human being is the one, who must
understand Dharma and live by it. We must discriminate
between what is Dharma and Adharma and perform the right
Karma or action. Thereafter, it is our Dharma to transcend
Karma, so that we can attain Mukti and Moksha. We are
fortunate that although the Eternal Truth or Dharma has been
diluted by most religions, the ultimate goal of Moksha, still
remains. It is also called Nirvana, Salvation or Liberation. It is
our good fortune that all religions talk of ethical behaviour,
good values and morals and therefore, the right Dharma, at its
basic level. Unfortunately, the path prescribed by many
manipulating the term Dharma, will not take us to our
destination of Moksha. Unless we live in Yoga and the right
Dharma, we will not attain Moksha and instead return to earth
as per our Karma.
Ethics, Morals, Duties, Responsibilities become our Dharma,

But the right Dharma is that, which takes us to Moksha.
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Chapter
12
Our Mind Makes Us Blind
What stops us on our journey to Moksha? What disturbs our

Yoga and makes us sink in Bhoga? What takes us away from the
Eternal Truth or Dharma that defines our purpose of human
existence? It is our biggest enemy, the Mind.
We all talk of the mind but where is the mind, we cannot find.
Still, it makes us blind and leaves the truth behind. If we want to
achieve our life purpose of Realization, Liberation and
Unification with the Divine, we have to kill the mind.
Otherwise, there can be no Mukti and no Moksha. As long as we
are imprisoned by the mind, the truth, we can never find.
What is the mind? The mind, in reality, is nothing but a bundle

of thoughts. Where there are no thoughts, there is no mind. But
no human being lives without thoughts. The mind appears
when thoughts pour like rain. It can be up to 50 thoughts, a
minute and these make us miserable, again and again. Imagine
the mind producing 50,000 thoughts a day! It becomes the MK-
50, the Mind Killer - 50, more dangerous than the deadly weapon,
AK-47. The mind can drill us and kill us with its toxic thoughts.
Sometimes, it appears to be our best friend and fools us into
believing that we can befriend the mind. The truth is that the
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mind creates fear, worry, stress, anxiety, regret, shame and

guilt and leads us into a state of depression. In fact, some people
even contemplate committing suicide and ending their life just
because of the mind. But the strange truth is that nobody has
ever seen the mind.
Have you ever seen the mind? What does it look like? Is it round
like a ball? Immediately, the mind will confuse you and make
you think of the brain. We know that the brain is in our head but
the brain is not the mind. The brain is the hardware whereas,
the mind is the software. Nobody has seen the mind and
nobody knows where we can find the mind but still, the mind
continues to make us blind.
Our mind is like a thought factory. It is constantly producing

thoughts. Practically, a thought every second. These are
primarily negative thoughts that will create fear or anxiety. To
fool us, sometimes, there are positive thoughts too but the
objective of the mind is to make us ignorant. It is because of the
mind that we remain blind and we do not Realize the Truth of
who we are and why we are here. The Mind and Ego, ME, does
Karma and not only does it make us suffer on earth but its
existence also makes us return in a new body, in a rebirth. It
stops us from Realizing the Truth that we are not this body that
will die, we are not the mind, which we cannot find and we are
not the ego that says, 'I'; it is a lie. The truth is that we are the
Divine Soul, the Spark Of Unique Life. Although we know it
that we were not born on our birth date, our mind makes us
celebrate a birthday that is fake and it makes us cut a cake when
in reality, we were born or conceived, 9 months before. The
mind stops us from the Realization of the Truth, as it makes us
believe the myth. Because of the mind and its thoughts, we just
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follow the herd. We don't fly like a bird to Ask, Investigate and
Realize the Truth. Our mind does not let us realize because it
doesn't allow us to open our real eyes. It stops us from
activating our intellect in Consciousness and makes us remain
blind. All this is done by the mind, which we cannot find. And
unfortunately, the truth is left behind.
Who stops us from Yoga? It is the mind. Yoga is union with the
Divine. It is that state of Consciousness, where there are no
thoughts. Who bombards us with thoughts? The mind! Who
robs our peace? The mind! Wherever there is a piece of mind,
there can be no peace of mind and thus, no Yoga. Therefore,
who is the biggest enemy of Moksha, our ultimate purpose? It is
the mind! Unless we still the mind, peace, we cannot find nor
will we follow the right Dharma and be in that state of Yoga to
reach our ultimate destination, Moksha.
We human beings can be either in a state of mind, where we

are bombarded by thoughts or we can be in a state of
Thoughtlessness or Consciousness. But for this, we have to
make a conscious effort to stop the mind from bombarding us
with thoughts. If we don't kill the mind, the mind will kill us.
Thoughts come uninvited. The mind doesn't knock at the door
but once it enters, it pushes us on the floor. We have to shut the
mind out and lock the door. Then, we can be in a state of
Consciousness and attain our ultimate destination. But the
mind does not want this. It wants to create confusion because if
we reach that destination Moksha, it will cease to exist. So, it
fights hard to stop us from Yoga and Moksha.
What is the ultimate truth about the mind? It doesn't exist.

Unfortunately, because of ignorance, we human beings think
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that we are the body, mind and ego. We don't realize the simple
truth that we are the Soul, a Spark Of Unique Life. What were
we when we were conceived? We were just one cell of existence,
the zygote. Then, the cells multiplied and ultimately, the body
was formed and the body that we appear to be, thinks that we
are the Mind and Ego, ME. One day, when the Soul or life
energy departs, the body will die and return to dust. But
because of ignorance, the Mind and Ego that thinks it's ME,
carries its unsettled Karma and returns to earth in a rebirth. If
only we kill the mind, transcend the ego and realize that we are
neither the body that dies nor the mind that we cannot find nor
the ego that says, 'I', we will be liberated from rebirth and attain
Moksha, Unification with the Divine.
So what is stopping us from Moksha? It is the mind. A mind that

we cannot find! Still, it makes us ignorant and blind! If we want
to attain Moksha, our ultimate purpose, our biggest Dharma or
duty is to still the mind. There can be nothing more important
than this and we can only do it if we flip over from mind to
Consciousness. Then, we can stop it, crop it, chop it and drop it!
The Mind creates Ignorance, the Mind makes us Blind!

But where is this rascal Mind, we cannot Find!
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Chapter
13
Consciousness And
The Intellect
As we try to still the mind and kill the mind, we move into a
state of Consciousness. What is Consciousness? It is a state of
Thoughtlessness. Some people call it Mindfulness. It is that
state of Awareness, in which we become a witness, an observer
of this Cosmic Drama, this Leela and the unfolding of Maya, the
Cosmic Illusion. Unless we are in Consciousness, we will be
constantly attacked by the mind but in this state of
Consciousness, there is no mind. The mind is just a bundle of
thoughts. When we slow down the MTR, the Mental Thought
Rate, from 50 thoughts a minute to letting the thoughts appear
in our Consciousness, one by one, then we are in a state of
Consciousness and will be able to discriminate our thoughts
through our intellect.
What is the intellect? The intellect is a tool of discrimination. It

helps us decide, what is black and white, what is wrong and
right. As long as we are in the mind state, we cannot discriminate.
The Mind Killer - 50 or MK-50 will bombard us with about 50
thoughts, a minute. How is it even possible, in that state, to
discriminate? Thus, we are unable to evolve on the path of Yoga
and Moksha.
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Consciousness And The Intellect
Life and our journey of life, in essence, is about moving from the
state of mind to the state of Consciousness. If we do not flip over
to this state of Thoughtlessness, we cannot live in Yoga. Yoga is
a state of Yuj or union and the mind is causing a constant
disconnection and pulling us into Bhoga. Along with the 5
senses – eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin, our mind creates so
much desire and passion that we are lost in the mind. We are
caught in thought! However, when we withdraw into
Consciousness, we become like a tortoise that is no more
attacked by external enemies. Being in Consciousness creates a
shell of protection and we evolve in our journey of Realization
and Liberation.
How does one reach the state of Consciousness and then,

activate the intellect? Each of us is blessed with an intellect.
Every human being has this unique faculty, which is missing in
other living creatures. Some animals may seem to be intelligent
but they have more of what we call, instinct. Even if they have
partial intelligence, it is only man, who can discriminate and
realize, 'Who am I?' It is the intellect that can take us through
Self-Realization to God-Realization and Moksha. And the irony
is that while we all have the intellect, not all of us use it
effectively. This is because the intellect only shines in
Consciousness. When we are flooded with thoughts of the
mind, the fog created by the toxic thoughts restricts the intellect
from being activated and from discriminating and Realizing
the Truth. The intellect, not only discriminates and leads to
Realization, it also has another important function. It takes
charge of our thoughts as they appear, one-by-one, like little
fishes swimming into the ocean of Consciousness. By
controlling our thoughts in an organized manner, like cable
cars in a ropeway system, the intellect effectively blocks the
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mind and locks the mind. This prevents us from being

bombarded with toxic thoughts. Our only challenge is to reach
that state of Consciousness, in which our greatest treasure, the
tool of discrimination, our intellect, shines and takes charge of
our life.
How then can one move from mind to Consciousness? The

mind is a rascal. It is like a monkey. Unless we tame the
monkey, it will never become a monk that permits us to be in
Consciousness. If we look at the word monkEY, it has a tail - the
EY. We have to cut this tail to make the monkEY into a monk.
What is EY? EY is the Ever-Yelling and Ever-Yearning state of
the mind and because of its constant bombarding of thoughts,
the mind creates so much noise. We have to spend time in
silence to reduce this yelling and subsequently, reduce its
yearning. Our mind constantly wants 'this' and 'that' and as
long as it continues its Ever-Yelling and Ever-Yearning, it will
jump from thought-to-thought. To be in Consciousness, we have
to tame the monkey mind and live as a monk. The MONK is a –
M - Master of the Mind

O - Only in Yoga
N - No Desires
K - Karma-Free or Transcended
This is our challenge because the monkey mind does not want
us to be a monk. The moment we still the mind and kill the
mind, it ceases to exist. There will be peace and in
Consciousness, the intellect will shine.
The journey from Yoga to Moksha, cannot happen without

Consciousness and as long as the mind makes us blind, we
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cannot Realize the Truth. One percent of this world is visually

blind but 99% is Spiritually blind. Even though the truth stares
at us in our face, we are not able to live with grace because the
mind hides the truth behind. It drills and kills us with thoughts,
disables the intellect to discriminate and realize the truth. It
stops us from being in Yoga and pulls us into Bhoga. It creates so
much confusion that we can never reach a state of conclusion or
Realization called Moksha.
In Consciousness, we can Realize the Truth, each truth, one-by-

one and lock the mind and its ignorance, so that we do not have
to memorize and analyse the truth, again and again. In
Consciousness, the Truth shines and creates Eternal Peace and
Everlasting Bliss. Just like when there is bright sunshine, there
can be no darkness, so also, in the light of Consciousness, the
darkness of ignorance disappears. When thoughts appear
gently, they do not have the toxic energy of the mind and it is
easy for our intellect to take any toxic thought, crop it, stop it,
chop it and drop it! Only relevant thoughts that will enhance
our progress on the journey to Moksha will be entertained by the
intellect, as we live in Consciousness. Mind or Consciousness?
This is the key that will decide whether we will live as a Yogi or a
Bhogi. It is like a see-saw. If we let the mind ride our life horse, it
will become our boss and then, we will be at a great loss for it
will steal our Consciousness and block us from our life purpose.
Therefore, we must still the mind and kill the mind!
We must flip over from the Mind state to Consciousness,

Then, the Intellect Shines and there is Peace and Bliss!
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Chapter
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Importance Of A Guru
Is it possible for anybody and everybody to live in Yoga and

achieve Moksha? This is just like asking if everybody can just
start walking up the mountains to scale Mount Everest. You
can't! In order to do so, you must be absolutely clear about the
destination and the terrain and you need all the equipment that
can take you there. So is this journey, from Yoga to Moksha. You
need a qualified Master, an Enlightened Sage or a Spiritually
Awakened Guru to help you at every step of the journey.
My journey of Self-Realization would never have happened

without the grace and guidance of my Guru, Dada J.P.
Vaswani. I spent 25 years with him and for the first 10-15 years, I
was just asking for his guidance in life, on matters related to my
business and family. Little did I know that my Guru would lead
me towards Mukti or freedom from this world of trials and
tribulations. One day, he asked me, 'Why don't you shut your
business?' This happened when I had an offer to close a thriving
business in which, I was struggling to pay back loans. My
Master could see that it would take away the life from me and in
the end, all I would have, would be money. He saw that I was
cut for a different purpose. So, at 40 years of age, I shut shop and
took an exit from the highway of achievement to a life of
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fulfillment. Little did I realize, where I was heading to but for

sure, I achieved a state of peace that was far greater than the
pleasure and happiness I used to enjoy.
For several years, I would share with my Guru, pictures of this

beautiful world that God has made - pictures of Iceland,
Greenland, Finland, New Zealand and other countries. One
day, when I showed him the pictures of me playing with the
penguins in Antarctica, he smiled and said, 'I can see you so
blissful but will you just live like this and die or will you find
out, 'Who am I and why am I here'?'
It was my Guru who provoked and inspired me to go on a

quest, a search or Talaash. If not for my Master, I would have
been only galloping faster like a mad horse in the material race,
to be an ace. My Guru slowed down my pace and my faith in the
Divine gave me that special grace. My life was transformed.
With the guidance of my Guru, I eliminated all the junk and

from a wandering monkey, I became a monk but not somebody
who had to leave this world and retreat into the forest or
mountain. My Master guided me to the state of Enlightenment
and then, led me on to a journey, where I could become a light
that would help others eliminate the darkness in the journey of
life. Whenever I had a question or doubt, it was my Guru who
would take me from Gu to Ru. Gu means darkness and Ru
means light. He was an Enlightened Master. In 2018, he left the
world to be liberated and united with the Divine. I have no
doubt whatsoever that my Master attained Moksha. He had
Realized the Truth and lived like a Yogi with only one desire -
To attain the Divine.
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Without my Guru, I would not have started my Spiritual

journey. I would have never understood the true meaning of
the terms – Yoga, Moksha, Mukti, Maya, Leela, Jivanmukta, and
SatChitAnanda. Of course, I read many books but the knowledge
that we get from a college can never take us to our destination. If
we want Realization and Liberation, it is only a Guru, who can
help us in this journey towards our ultimate destination. Who
gave me the inspiration to let go of success and achievement?
Who helped me in evolving from fulfilment to Enlightenment?
If I had to attribute my Spiritual success to one person, it would
be my Guru. I consider him to be a manifestation of God on
earth but he always told me that a Guru can hold your hand and
make you walk but you must walk the talk. A Guru can show
you, how you must go within but you have to enter and light
the light to be Enlightened and to ultimately, attain Moksha.
The key in the journey from Yoga to Moksha, is having a right

Guru. Unfortunately, just as it is imperative to have the right
Guru for Moksha, it is impossible to reach that destination with a
wrong Guru. Just like we need the right GPS that will show us
the way and take us to our destination, we need the right GPS –
Guru's Powerful Signal, to help us with the light of truth in the
dark journey of this world of desires and passions. The first
challenge is to find a Guru and then, the Guru must find you.
Unless the Guru finds you committed to that journey, he will
not embrace you on the path. Many people wonder, where can
we find the right Guru. It is said that - When the disciple is
ready, the Guru will appear. What does this mean? It means
that if we are sincere seekers and on the path of Yoga and
Moksha, we will find our Master because a Guru is already on
the path. Our deep yearning for the Divine and sincere seeking
of the truth will automatically lead us to our Guru. If we are
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sincere in our journey of Realization and Unification with the

Divine, we will be blessed with the grace of the Divine to get the
guidance of the right Guru.
The most important element in our journey to Moksha is

therefore, the Guru. Does everybody, who finds the right Guru,
attain Moksha? No! Only the truly obedient ones, who have faith
and trust in the Guru, will be blessed to evolve. This does not
mean that we should blindly believe what the Guru says. We
can question the Guru to get answers to all our doubts but we
must also not doubt the Guru. If we doubt, it will throw Self-
Realization out of our life. A Guru is a rare, Enlightened Master.
You cannot find a true Guru easily. Once that task is done, the
challenge is to diligently follow the Master with Consciousness,
intelligence, faith, devotion, passion and persistence to reach
the ultimate goal of Self-Realization and God-Realization.
Not everybody is blessed to find the right Guru and so, it is rare
to develop that bond with the Master, to obey the Guru and to
reach our ultimate purpose of Moksha or Liberation.
We need a Guru to take us from Darkness to Light.

Without the Master, we cannot win this Ultimate Fight!
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Chapter
15
We Need Mukti Or Freedom
As one traverses the journey of life and experiences the state of

Yoga, one starts the journey towards Mukti or freedom. It is the
first step towards Moksha. Mukti can be considered the base of
the peak or even an essential precondition needed to be
liberated and united with the Divine.
Moksha happens only in the moment of death. Moksha can be

attained, only when we lose our breath. But we must put this in
our head that we cannot be Enlightened after we are dead. We
have to be Enlightened, when we are living and this
Enlightenment gives us Mukti or freedom. What is Mukti? In
essence, Mukti is freedom from the triple suffering on earth.
Freedom from the pain of the body. Freedom from the misery of
the mind and freedom from the agony of the ego. Mukti is
freedom from ignorance. Therefore, it is freedom from all
attachments. One who has attained Mukti is free from the
imprisonment of pleasures, possessions and people. Then,
even while one is in this Samsara or the material world, he is free
from all desires and passions for material things. So, how can
one attain Mukti?
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For a common man, the question is quite a dichotomy - 'Why do

I need Mukti or freedom? I am already free. I am not in a jail.
Then, why is it that I will fail, if I don't attain this Mukti?' A
common man doesn't realize that he is imprisoned in
ignorance. He suffers, as the mind jumps from yesterday to
tomorrow but he doesn't realize that he is a prisoner of misery
and sorrow. He just thinks that life is a merry-go-round and it is
normal to have pleasure and pain, just as there is sun and rain
and loss and gain. So, he doesn't even realize that the goal of life
is freedom or Mukti. He just lives, dies and then, returns to earth
in a rebirth, and the circle goes on-and-on, after he is reborn.
One who attains the state of Realization or Spiritual Awakening

overcomes ignorance and Realizes the Truth. It is that seeker of
the Truth, who becomes free from the prison of the body, mind
and ego. Such a person realizes that although I have a body, I
am not the body that dies. When the body dies, people will say
that I passed away. Therefore, he is absolutely clear that he has
to leave this body, when he departs. He is free from all the
myths that we grow up with. In the beginning, he acquires
knowledge but knowledge is not Realization. We need Mukti or
freedom from the body. Then, the seeker attains freedom from
the mind. When he goes in quest of the mind, he realizes that
there is no mind. How much ever he tries to find the mind, he
can't. Still the mind makes him imprisoned in beliefs and fairy
tales. Mukti is being free from the mind. One who is able to still
the mind and kill the mind, attains mind-Mukti.
Then comes the ego – Mukti or freedom from 'I' and this comes
from the Realization that I am not 'I'. I am not the body because
one day, it will die. I am the Divine Soul. This is Mukti. Freedom
from the Mind and Ego, ME and the Realization that I am
energy.
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Many people understand the concept that I am the Soul and not
the body, mind and ego but still, they don't attain Mukti. They
remain a slave, till they reach their grave. One who attains
Mukti is liberated but one who does not, returns to earth in a
rebirth, carrying Karma. The body dies but we are not free from
Karma. Mukti is the ability to realize, 'I am not the one, who
does Karma. I am a Soul, a Spark Of Unique Life and the Soul
does not do Karma nor does the Soul get the results of Karma.'
Mukti is thus, Liberation from Karma.
Therefore, putting it all together - What is Mukti? Mukti is being

free from the body, the mind and the ego and their desires. It is
being free from ignorance. It is being free from Karma. So, if
Mukti is all this, how is it different from Moksha? Mukti is a state
of Realization and freedom, while we are still alive on earth. In a
flash of a moment, we can lose our Consciousness of the Truth
and sink in Bhoga. Then, we cannot attain that ultimate state of
Moksha. One who attains Mukti lives as a Jivanmukta or the one
who is liberated while alive but unless one continues to be in
this Consciousness and this Self-Realization, he may slip and
fall. Therefore, the importance of continuing to be a Jivanmukta
or a life- realized free Soul, is the key to attain the ultimate goal
of Moksha.
There are many people who are Gyani, the wise ones but they
are not Jivanmukta. They live behind the prison bars of desires,
passions, attachments and ignorance. They are unable to use
their willpower to live the Realization of the Truth. They may
be Yogis but they fail and fall into Bhoga, this material world
and then, they sink! Their senses and their mind imprison them
in material pleasures and possessions and they fail in their
ultimate battle, even though they know the truth. Such people
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fail in the journey from Realization to Liberation. Thus, Mukti is

the doorway to Moksha.
What is the cause of all suffering? Suffering is there because

there is no Mukti or freedom. If one attains Mukti, he becomes
free from the triple suffering on earth and moves towards that
final journey - To be free from rebirth. But the truth is that this is
not everybody's cup of tea. It needs a lot of commitment and
dedication, just as it needs devotion. The enemy that we call the
mind, tries very hard to imprison us in ignorance. If we don't
kill the mind, the mind will kill us and we will fail, as we will
remain in its jail and be caught in toxic thoughts. That is the
reason, we suffer fear, worry, stress and anxiety. The Mind and
Ego create ME and there is anger, hate, revenge and jealousy
but the moment we are free, we attain Mukti and are liberated
from all this suffering. A Jivanmukta lives a life of peace, joy,
love and bliss, as he lives in Truth Consciousness. After
attaining Mukti, one is free to march forward on the journey of
Moksha but without Mukti, one cannot achieve the ultimate goal
of living as the Divine Soul and being united with SIP, the
Supreme Immortal Power.
Mukti is Freedom from the Triple Su ering on Earth.

It opens the gates to Moksha, Freedom from Rebirth.
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Chapter
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The Journey Of PIRLU
Sincere seekers of life, those who want to discover the true

meaning of human existence, try to understand Yoga and
aspire to attain Moksha but there is a lot of difference between
wishing and truly wanting. If one wants to attain an ultimate
state of Liberation from all misery on earth, freedom from the
cycle of rebirth and becoming one with the Divine, one has to
follow the process. There is a method to achieve, what people
call Moksha, Nirvana, Salvation, Liberation or becoming one
with God.
Most people don't know who God is. They don't pause to find
out where God is or what God is. It seems that they pray but the
truth is that when we don't know what we say and to whom we
pray, then we just bray. If one is sincere on this journey, one will
seek God and love God so deeply that their love and longing
will make them Realize the Truth about God. God is not God.
God is SIP, a Supreme Immortal Power. Though most of us
know this and understand it, we don't realize it and if there is no
Realization, there can be no Liberation. Therefore, what is the
method to arrive at this Realization? Of course, we have learnt
that it is from Yoga that we get to Moksha. But how can we live in
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Yoga and how can we attain Moksha? We must embark on a

journey called PIRLU.
What is PIRLU? PIRLU is the journey of Purification,

Illumination, Realization, Liberation and Unification. It is a
method that will help us start our journey of Yoga and complete
it with Mukti or freedom from ignorance and all misery on
earth. While PIRLU will give us that wisdom, as to how we can
attain Moksha, we must never forget that Moksha is only in the
moment of death. We cannot attain Moksha, after we are dead.
We must get it clearly in our head that if we attain Mukti or
freedom when alive and we live a life of PIRLU, then in all
probabilities, we will attain Moksha and not return to this earth
in a rebirth.
The first step of PIRLU is Purification. What is Purification? It is

eliminating all the junk and living like a monk. It is overcoming
the myth and Realizing the Truth. It is questioning every doubt
and throwing our earlier beliefs out. It is asking, 'Who am I?'
and 'Does God really live in the sky?' Purification is that
method, where we eliminate all impure thoughts. The process
continues till we are purified. Then, we reach the next step of
Illumination but there can be no Illumination without
Purification. Imagine, trying to see through a glass that is
completely fogged. Even though there is light outside, can we
see anything? Purification is clearing the fog of ignorance. It is
getting our beliefs right. It is realigning our concepts of ourselves,
our life, purpose, happiness and God. It is like straining with a
filter, the glass of water that is so full of dirt. We use a filter to
repeatedly filter the water till it is pure enough to drink. Very
often, the Purification process needs the help of an Enlightened
Master, a Guru, who will remove the impurities from our head.
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Some people want to go through the process of Purification and

they are committed, dedicated and disciplined. Others just
want to have fun, till life is done. To them, all this is nonsense.
'Why should I find out who I am? Why should I worry about
what will happen after I die?' Neither will they start the journey
of PIRLU nor attain the peace of Yoga or the Eternal Bliss of
Moksha.
Only those who pass the first stage of Purification, reach the
next state of Illumination. What do we understand by
Illumination? Illumination is when there is light. If we enter a
large mansion and there is no light at all, at first, we switch on
one switch to create illumination in the foyer, since the mansion
is in darkness. Then, we have enough light to see where we are.
But still, there is darkness everywhere. We cannot take a broom
and sweep away the darkness from each room. But each room
has a light. One-by-one, we can create illumination, till
ultimately, the entire mansion is illuminated. We understand
this very clearly but we don't understand the darkness that is
within. We don't realize that I am not 'I'. We don't realize that
we are not the Mind and Ego that says, 'ME'. We all believe that
one day, we will die and will need to face a God in the skies, on
the day of judgement. All this is nothing but a lie but because
there is no Purification of thoughts, there is no Illumination and
therefore, no elimination of darkness. Just like when we walk
inside a dark mansion, we trip and fall, so throughout life, we
fall and suffer. Those who experience Illumination, start the
journey of bliss, as they overcome misery and sorrow. They
learn to live in the present moment. They don't jump from
yesterday to tomorrow. This is because of Illumination.
Therefore, what is Illumination? It is coming to know of the
truth. Illumination is wisdom and right knowledge but it is not
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Realization. That is the next step. In Illumination, we have

eliminated impure thoughts and beliefs and we have switched
on the light on the truth. We know what is the truth but we need
to go to the next step.
The next step is Realization. It happens when we open our real

eyes and realize. When the water in the refrigerator goes
through crystallization, it becomes ice. Similarly, when our
knowledge is crystallized, we come wise. We realize! We have
no doubts, anymore. I am not the body, mind and ego. I am the
Divine Soul. The Soul is the Spark Of Unique Life that comes
from SIP, the Supreme Immortal Power. The body will die but
'I', the Soul, will be united with SIP. Karma doesn't belong to
me. I am free. I am a Divine instrument. All these Realizations
that come from Purification and Illumination will take us
forward to a state of Liberation and ultimately, Unification with
the Divine. Liberation cannot happen till the body dies but we
will live as a realized Soul and ensure that we don't slip back
into this world with Karma, to experience another rebirth.
Unless there is Illumination, there can be no Realization and
several Realizations lead to a state of Enlightenment or
Spiritual Awakening. Only an Enlightened Soul, after
Realization, attains Liberation. Thereafter, there is Unification,
when we become one with the Divine. We don't return to earth
in a rebirth.
We need Purification and Illumination to reach Realization.

Realization takes us to Liberation and Unification.
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Chapter
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We Need MAGIC
To attain that state of Moksha and to evolve from Yoga, we need

magic. This is not some trick as one would think but 'MAGIC'.
M – Mumukshutva
A – Ability to Ask
G – Grace and Guidance
I – Intelligence Over Ignorance
C – Consciousness
This MAGIC will lead us towards the state of Awakening,

stage-by-stage. But even before we attempt to climb the ladder
to Enlightenment, these 5 magical constituents will help us in
the magical journey of Realization, Liberation and Unification.
It starts with Mumukshutva, that deep love and longing for the
Divine and for Liberation. Without being a Mumukshu or the
one who is passionate for the Supreme, one will not get the
impetus, the Power or the momentum to launch into the orbit of
Awakening. Mumukshutva is an obsession, the one and only
desire of a true seeker of Moksha. Like a fire, this grows and
sometimes, it takes time. But the more passionate our journey
is, more are the chances of us attaining Moksha. Moksha is not
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guaranteed for all. Only a rare few, who seek it, find it. But if
there is no passionate Power backing our desire for Moksha,
there is very little chance to attain this state of Moksha or
Nirvana.
When one has a deep passion for the Divine, then he must move
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to the 2 step of MAGIC, the Ability to Ask, to question
everything about life, God and themselves. It is this
questioning that will propel one forward in the journey to
Moksha. Only having Mumukshutva is not enough. We also need
the complete MAGIC and asking takes us forward step-by-
step. It disentangles us from the myth and makes us Realize the
Truth. 'Who am I? Why am I here? What happens after I die?
Where will I go? Is there a heaven and a hell? Who is God? Where
is God? What is God? What is Enlightenment, Salvation,
Liberation?' One must keep asking these questions and getting
answers and for this, one needs the next letter of MAGIC – The
letter G.
G in MAGIC is for Grace and Guidance. We all have Divine grace

but unless the grace of the Supreme appears as the guidance of
the Guru, we can never move towards Moksha. Moksha is attained
stage-by-stage but to climb the ladder to Liberation, the
guidance of the Guru is essential. Without it, one will be lost.
Just like we need a GPS in our vehicles while driving in
unknown terrains, we need both guidance and grace to lead us
forward. For this, we need the right Guru. But if we keep
following several Gurus or Masters, we are sure to be lost.
When one has the grace of the Divine and the guidance of the
Guru, one starts to Realize the Truth. It is MAGIC - The passion
for Liberation, the ability to ask and the grace and guidance that
takes one to the next step to use intelligence and overcome
ignorance.
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If ignorance overcomes our intelligence, there is no chance that

we can attain Mukti or freedom and thereafter, Moksha or
Liberation. It is the primary step in the journey to eliminate
ignorance. But just eliminating ignorance is not enough. We
must activate our intelligence. We must discriminate every
thought and this will lead us ahead. Many people get confused
and think that Bhatki or devotion is enough. They do not realize
that unless there is intellectual contemplation, Bhakti will
remain only Bhakti. Devotion can lead to Realization. It has the
power but it needs wisdom in action. How does one move to the
state of activating the intellect and overcoming ignorance? It is
by being in Consciousness.
The last piece of the MAGIC formula is Consciousness. As long

as we are in the mind state, we cannot attain Spiritual
Awakening and move towards Moksha. We have to flip from a
state of mind to a state of Consciousness. Only then, will our
intellect shine and we will overcome ignorance. But just being
in Consciousness is not enough. We need MAGIC. We need all
the components of the magic show for us to grow, go forward
and be Enlightened.
When Mumukshutva or passion for the Divine makes us ask

questions that get answered with the guidance of the Guru,
which leads us to overcoming ignorance and contemplating
with the intellect in Consciousness, where we tame the monkey
mind and respond like a monk, this magic is sure to help us in
the journey from Yoga to Moksha. Unfortunately, we are not
taught how to create this magic. The fact is that anybody can
use MAGIC to move forward. Why then, do we not progress on
the journey to Moksha?
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We Need MAGIC
The key or central piece of MAGIC is the grace of the Divine and
the guidance of the Guru. If you remove this from MAGIC,
there will be no magic! If one has passion and asks questions
and tries to be in Consciousness but does not have Divine grace
that manifests as the guidance of the Guru, he will wander, live
and die, only to return to earth in a rebirth. This will go on and
on, as one is reborn. It is a Guru, who will guide us towards each
step of the magic. The Guru will help us build our faith and love
for the Divine. The Guru will encourage us to ask questions. It is
the Enlightened Master, who will teach us how to use our
intellect to overcome ignorance and flip from mind to
Consciousness. Therefore, we must not undervalue or
underestimate the need and the Power of grace and guidance
from a Guru.
Some people try to do the MAGIC trick by only running after a

Guru. Obviously, they are on the wrong hunt because their
Guru doesn't tell them about the need of MAGIC. They just live
and die, following a self-styled Guru, only to end up chanting
some Mantra and following some rituals that will take them
nowhere. A Guru must guide us on the magical journey of
experiencing the Divine within. It is a Guru, who helps us in our
inner voyage, which will ultimately help us attain Moksha. But
we must put all the pieces together for the puzzle to be solved.
The journey from Yoga to Moksha is not an easy journey like
going from London to New York.
We get enamoured seeing a Magic Show on Earth.

But we don't learn the MAGIC that can Free us from Rebirth.
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Chapter
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There Are 8 Stages Of
Spiritual Awakening
To be Spiritually Awakened or Enlightened, one has to embark
on another journey within the journey of Yoga to Moksha. No
doubt, one is trying to use Yoga to attain that destination of
Moksha but if one does not attain Enlightenment, Yoga will not
take us to Moksha. Yoga to Moksha is no doubt, a direct path but
can every Yogi attain Moksha? This is not guaranteed. A Yogi
must go through the 8 stages of Spiritual Awakening step-by-
step, otherwise, there will be Yoga but Moksha will remain a
dream.
We have already learnt what Yoga is. It is that state of being in

Divine union. Yoga, no doubt helps but Moksha is not that easy.
What does one have to do before becoming a Yogi and what
does one do after living in Yoga? This must be learnt by the true
seeker of Moksha. These 8 stages will reveal the journey,
milestone-by-milestone, till we reach our destination.
Just like we watch the milestones on a highway, the journey to

Moksha has 8 distinct milestones that one must pass. If we miss
even one milestone, we cannot attain the destination of Moksha.
The 8 milestones are Mumukshu, Jigyasu, Gyani, Yogi, Buddh,
Sthitpragya, Jivanmukta and SatChitAnanda Atman. These are
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independent by themselves but normally, one follows the

other. Therefore, they become systematic stages to evolve
through – First, to Enlightenment and ultimately, to Moksha.
The first stage is Mumukshu. We have already covered the term

Mumukshu earlier - One who has that deep love and longing
called Mumukshutva, becomes a Mumukshu. A Mumukshu seeks
the Divine. His passion is for the Supreme. This is the priority of
his life. He sets aside all other desires and passions, when they
come in between him and his Lord. He seeks his God and
Liberation and there is nothing more important to a Mumukshu
than Unification with the Divine.
The Mumukshu becomes a Jigyasu, whose hallmark is curiosity

and investigation. Therefore, there is contemplation of the
truth. A Jigyasu doesn't believe in anything that he reads or
hears. He questions everything, till he reaches that state of
Realization. As a Jigyasu Realizes one Truth after the other, he
overcomes ignorance and evolves to the next stage of a Gyani.
Gyani is a man of wisdom. He has realized several truths but he

is still not Enlightened. There are missing pieces in his Spiritual
Jigsaw Puzzle but on a macro level, he is an evolved person.
It is a Gyani, who evolves to that stage of being a Yogi. To reach

this state of being in Yoga, one needs to be a Mumukshu, a
Jigyasu and a Gyani. Without these 3 preliminary stages, Yoga
will be superficial. One may appear to do Yoga but is not a true
Yogi. A true Yogi yearns for the Divine, questions all the myths,
accumulates wisdom and then contemplates living in union
with the Divine. This becomes the formula that takes the Yogi to
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that heightened state of Spiritual Awakening called

Enlightenment. Then, he becomes a Buddh or Buddha.
We have all heard the term, 'Buddha'. Its root lies in the word -
Buddh, the Awakened One or the Enlightened One. When does
a Yogi become a Buddh? It is in that moment of Spiritual
Awakening, known as Enlightenment. When the Divine light
of truth shines and the darkness within is dissolved, the Buddh
awakens to realize, 'Who am I?' He realizes that he is a
manifestation of the Divine. As a Gyani, he has the knowledge
but it is only as a Yogi that the knowledge experiences
crystallization and there is Realization. Once the state of
Buddha is attained, one does not need to memorize or to
analyse for one has Realized the Truth.
Does every Buddh attain Moksha? Not necessarily. After

attaining Buddhatva or Enlightenment, one may fall into Bhoga if
they lose their Yoga, the cord that connects us with the Divine.
Therefore, the Buddh must live as a Sthitpragya, become a
Jivanmukta and then, live as a SatChitAnanda Atman to ultimately,
attain Moksha.
Before one becomes a Buddh or is Enlightened, there are 4 stages

- Mumukshu, Jigyasu, Gyani and Yogi. After one becomes a
Buddh, there are 3 stages. One must go through these 8 stages to
reach the destination of Moksha.
The next stage after Buddh is Sthitpragya, which means living in

Consciousness with a steady intellect. A truly Awakened One,
never loses Consciousness. Even if the mind attacks him, he
comes back to Yoga and to Consciousness. He uses his intellect
in every thought process and does not become a prey to the
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mind. Therefore, ignorance doesn't overpower a Sthitpragya.

He shines in Truth Consciousness and attains the state of Mukti
or freedom.
It is the Sthitpragya, who becomes a Jivanmukta, who has attained

freedom or Mukti from the world. He is liberated from the triple
suffering on earth but he is not yet free from the cycle of rebirth
because that happens only in the moment of death. It is only
when the Jivanmukta lives as a SatChitAnanda Atman, that he can
attain Moksha.
A SatChitAnanda Atman is an Enlightened Soul, who is living in

Eternal Bliss in Truth Consciousness. He has passed all the
stages of Spiritual Awakening and is Enlightened. He, now,
lives as the Soul and enjoys peace, love and bliss. If he continues
to live as a SatChitAnanda Atman, Jivanmukta, Sthitpragya, Buddh
and a Yogi, nothing can stop him from attaining Moksha. Such a
person is in a constant awareness of the omnipresence of the
Divine. He realizes that he is nothing and thus, he becomes
everything. In the moment of death, such a Divine Soul attains
Moksha.
Enlightenment has Stages Eight,

After Death, to the Lord, we go Straight.
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The 4 Doors To
Liberation
One must cross 4 doors to be able to reach the stage of
Liberation or Moksha. While there is no doubt that Yoga is the
way, we must move from one state of Yoga to another and not
sink in Bhoga. Of course, we must realize that this world is a
Leela, a show. It is Maya, an illusion. We must do our Dharma
with the aspiration of Moksha. We must transcend the mind and
live in Consciousness. We must have a Guru, a Spiritually
Awakened Master to guide us. Then, stage-by-stage, we will
evolve through Purification and Illumination, to that magical
state of Mukti, which will ultimately take us to Moksha.
Knowing this, we still need to open the 4 doors and move ahead
to reach that ultimate destination. What are the 4 doors?
The first door is Vivek or discrimination. If there is no

discrimination, the mind will be our boss. It will ride our horse
and we will be lost. There is no chance of reaching the
destination Moksha without the Vivek, Buddhi or intellect. This is
emphasized in the scriptures as the first door to Liberation.
Therefore, we must work on it. We must be steady in our
Consciousness and discrimination and then, move to the next
door of Liberation.
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The second door is Vairagya. Vairagya is to be dispassionate and

detached. Does this mean that one has to live as a Sanyasi or
renunciate? No! While Vairagya is often misunderstood to be
renunciation, it is actually the ability to live a spiritual life in a
material world. It is not necessary to leave the world and go into
the forest or mountains. While it is good to spend time in solace,
one does not have to live a life of solitude to attain Moksha.
However, if one is attached to the world or has desires and
passions for material things, it is natural for one to lose their
Yoga and fall out of the path that leads to Moksha.
The third door to Liberation is Shatsampat, which can be

understood as the 6 virtues needed to reach Moksha. What are
these 6 virtues? They are Sama, Dama, Uparati, Titiksha, Shraddha
and Samadhana. Sama is disciplining the mind. Dama is controlling
the senses. Uparati is withdrawing from the attacks of the
material world, like a tortoise that goes into its shell. Titiksha is
forbearance or not reacting but responding and persevering
suffering peacefully. Shraddha is faith and trust and Samadhana
is focus and concentration, also called equipoise. One needs
these 6 virtues known as Shatsampat to qualify for Moksha. It
may sometimes, seem complicated or difficult but in reality, it is
not. These are essentials on the journey and we must develop
these virtues, one-by-one to be ready to reach Moksha.
The fourth door is already covered under MAGIC and the 8

stages of Spiritual Awakening. It is so important that it is
prescribed by the scriptures as an essential quality needed for
Liberation. It is Mumukshutva, that deep love and longing for
the Divine and for Liberation. If one does not have
Mumukshutva, the final door to Liberation will not open.
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These 4 doors to Liberation - Discrimination, Dispassion,

Discipline and Desire for Liberation are so important that the
ancient scriptures and Gurus used to coach seekers intensely on
these virtues. Not much attention was paid to educate them on
worldly matters as compared to these. 'If one becomes brilliant
in knowledge, of what use is it?' the Spiritual Masters would
ask. Adi Shankara in his text, Bhaja Govindam, urged seekers not
to be fools, accumulating the wealth of knowledge but not
seeking the Divine. He wrote several pieces including
Vivekachudamani to tell us that the Vivek or intellect was our
biggest treasure or Chudamani. It was only with all these that
one could attain Aparoksh Anubhuti, the experience of the
Divine that was a magic beyond logic. However, if one tries to
study all these ancient scriptures, one can get lost. If one uses
the simplified understanding of these 4 doors and evolves
through the 8 stages, using the magic of Enlightenment and the
steps of PIRLU, he can steadily and surely, live as a Yogi and
move towards the path of Moksha.
Vivek, Vairagya, Shatsampat and Mumukshutva are like the 4 keys

that are needed to open the door to the biggest treasure of life.
To get to the treasure, we need all the 4 keys. If even one key is
missing, we will fail to reach our treasure. While Vivek, Vairagya
and Mumukshutva are covered, we must not forget Shatsampat
and the importance of these 6 virtues.
Unless we tame the monkey mind and unless we take charge of

our body senses and learn the art of living withdrawn from the
desires and passions of the material world, we cannot attain
Moksha. We need faith and trust, just as we need focus and
concentration to be able to live in acceptance and surrender. All
these are enumerated under Shatsampat. A genuine seeker of
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Moksha or Liberation must go back and ensure that he has

cultivated all these 6 virtues. One must not underestimate the
importance of any one of these virtues and get lost in the jungle
of life. So also, one must make sure that one has all the 4 keys to
the 4 doors of Liberation.
What if one does not have these 4 keys? He will live and die.
Death is certain. Every 'body' must die but if we don't attain
Moksha, we will return to earth in a rebirth. As a human being,
we are privileged and blessed that we have the possibility of
passing through these 4 doors. But instead, if we choose to live
with our animal instincts, we will not only suffer on earth but
return in a rebirth, only to suffer again and again.
Liberation is not an easy thing. It is the most difficult

achievement of life. If one is a seeker of Liberation, one must
be prepared to work hard to get there. But the reward is
Eternal Peace, Divine Love and Everlasting Happiness.
For Liberation, one has to pass through Door-After-Door,

It is not an easy journey, these tough Doors are Four.
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The Spiritual
Jigsaw Puzzle
If Realization and Liberation were easy to attain, everybody
could achieve them. But they are not. Compare it to children,
who are given a 10,000-pieces jigsaw puzzle. The children are
lost but somehow, with patience and persistence, some of them
get engrossed in the challenge of completing the puzzle. We
often see this in countries, where there is winter for several
months and children have no option but to stay indoors for
several hours, more out of a compulsion. And so, parents make
this, an entertainment. But why would adults sit down to solve
a Spiritual Jigsaw Puzzle? Unless they are passionate about
reaching destination Liberation, people will not even attempt
to start the puzzle.
Seekers of the Truth, Happiness or God, often go down the

Spiritual path. Many of them get lost but some, who are sincere,
patient and persistent, succeed in putting the pieces of the
puzzle together, till they get that moment of, 'Aha!' and the
picture emerges. This moment is called Enlightenment or
Spiritual Awakening and it can be achieved only if one
painstakingly picks up the Realizations one-by-one and puts
the puzzle together.
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The Spiritual Jigsaw Puzzle
When I started my journey, my quest for Enlightenment and I

was seeking the truth, I got several Realizations. Each
Realization became a piece of my Spiritual Jigsaw Puzzle till
ultimately, on the 31st of August 2014, those pieces came
together and I felt that spark of Awakening.
What were some of the pieces of my Spiritual Jigsaw Puzzle? I

realized that I am not this body. This body will die. I am not this
mind, which I cannot find. I am not the ego that says 'I', it's a lie! I
realized that God does not live in the sky. I had to find out, 'Who
am I and why am I here?' Each of these pieces started forming
the picture that I was seeking. I continued my quest. I took the
help of my Guru. I read several books, listened to talks and
watched videos and my quest continued. Piece-by-piece, the
puzzle fell in place.
Life is Karma. Nothing happens by chance. God is not

controlling our destiny. As we sow, so shall we reap! All trauma is
because of Karma. Ultimately, it's a drama or a show and we are
actors, who come and go. Every 'body' dies but only the body
dies. Death is not the end. It is just a bend. Karma makes us
rejoice or suffer on earth but then, brings us back in a rebirth.
How can we be free from Karma? Whom does Karma belong
to? Is it the Mind and Ego, ME? But the mind and ego don't
exist. Then, who is reborn? Who is doing the Karma? All these
questions and the answers that I found, were slowly but surely
helping me complete that picture of Spiritual Awakening.
Does life have a purpose or is it just to have fun, till it is done?

What is the purpose of life? Does each of us have a different
purpose? What about our duties and responsibilities? What
about family and relationships? All these became pieces of the
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puzzle. This was followed by happiness. How can we be happy,

all the time? What makes us unhappy? Is pleasure, happiness?
How can we find peace? What is more important - peace or
pleasure? What causes our suffering? Who suffers? Is there a
way to overcome suffering? When I realized that I was not the
body, mind and ego, I was the Soul, the bigger part of the puzzle
got completed but it was not yet, falling into place.
Do I have a Soul? What is the Soul? The Soul is a Spark Of

Unique Life. Where does it come from? Where does it go? Do I
have a Soul or am I the Soul? How can I Realize the Truth? Some
pieces of the Spiritual Jigsaw Puzzle can be very confusing and
cannot be answered without the help of a Guru. So, my Guru
would help me put several pieces in place and then, I was able
to progress.
Why do we get angry? What is the cause of hate, revenge and

jealousy? Why is there war in the world? These questions
revealed that the culprit was the ego. When it said 'I', it was a lie!
There I found a new piece of the puzzle – I am not 'I'. I am
nothing and this led me from Self-Realization to God-
Realization.
I, then, put my hands on some of the pieces that related to God.

Who is God? Where is God? What is God? I was finding the
pieces by reading all the scriptures of all the religions of the
world. Oh my God! How many Gods! This was the most
confusing part of the puzzle. Who is the real God? I studied
about temples, churches, monasteries, synagogues and
realized that it was ignorance that was making us blind. God is
not God. God is SIP, the Supreme Immortal Power. 'Where is
this Power?' I wondered.
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Some of us believe that God created this world and some don't.
Was it some Big Bang that created the world? Did we evolve
from apes? I got a few more pieces of the puzzle together. God is
omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. God is in you and
God is in me. God is in the butterfly and in the bee. God is also in
the mountain and the sea.
By now, it seemed that I had all the pieces of the puzzle together
but the pieces were not falling into the proper places. The picture
was unclear. It was on the 31st of August 2014, when I was on a
flight from Paris to Bangalore, AF-192 that I decided to do
nothing, not even to eat. I kept sipping some tea and coffee and
tried to put the pieces together. Before the flight landed, I had
solved the puzzle. I could clearly see that I was not Ravi, the one
I thought that I was for 48 years. I was the Atman in Ravi, the
Soul in Ravi. In that very moment, my life was transformed.
Not only did I change my name but I also changed my life. This
transformation started my metamorphosis. The Spiritual
Jigsaw Puzzle liberated me from crawling like a caterpillar and
let me free to fly like a beautiful butterfly. I was on my way in
my inner voyage from Yoga to Moksha.
For Liberation, we have to solve the Spiritual Jigsaw Puzzle.

Otherwise, we will live with trouble, be Reborn to Struggle!
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The Inner Voyage
To reach the destination Moksha, one can do everything

possible, including Yoga, getting knowledge and going to a
Guru but if one doesn't start an inner voyage, one cannot attain
Moksha. What is this inner voyage?
We go on so many expeditions. We try to discover the depths of

the oceans. We are constantly trying to put satellites in outer
space and competing with countries to reach the moon. But we
do not give importance to going within. Unless we start that
journey into the inner depths of our Consciousness to experience
our Soul within, our Yoga will be incomplete and Moksha will
remain a dream. We need to go within. That is the most
essential need and without this inner voyage, we will just keep
on going around in circles. We will be born and then, we will be
gone, only to be reborn and this will go on and on.
Man is constantly trying to explore his outer world. He is not

making an effort to discover his inner sanctum. He is said to be a
city of 9 doors. We have 9 doors in our human body that are all
looking outside – two eyes to see, two ears to listen, two nostrils
to breathe and smell, one mouth to talk and eat and two more
doors – one organ of excretion and one organ of procreation.
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Every human being has 9 doors and we are constantly using

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these doors to look outside. Unless man opens his 10 door, a
virtual or a spiritual door that can introspect and contemplate
within, man will never start his inner voyage. It is only the
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opening of the 10 door that will lead us inward, forward,
upward, onward and Godward. Then we can attain Moksha.
The material world that is all around us is Maya, a Cosmic

Illusion. Everything happening on the earth stage is a Leela, a
drama or a show. Everything is a projection, a manifestation of
the Divine. If we get lost in these projections of shadows and
shapes, we will never realize the true self that is within. Moksha
is attaining God and God can be attained through Realization
and for God-Realization, we need Self-Realization. And for
this, we need to go within because God does not dwell
somewhere in the distant stars. God dwells in the temple
within. If we are searching for God in a temple or church, how
can we succeed in our search? We have to go within.
Many people call this inner voyage the opening of the 3rd eye.
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We imagine that we have a physical 3 eye in the centre of our
forehead and we get lost and confused in these concepts,
interpretations and understanding of the truth. The 3rd eye is
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nothing but the 10 door that goes inwards. When we open the
rd
3 eye, we go into the depth of our Consciousness to realize the
Supreme within and start our journey to Moksha.
We human beings do not want a simple way to go on an inner

voyage. So, we try to get into different rituals and superstitions.
We try astrology and crystal healing, practices like Kundalini
and Reiki to reach the state of Spiritual Awakening or Moksha.
But none of these can give us that spark of Enlightenment, of
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Realization and then, lead us to Liberation and Moksha. If these

can take us on an inner journey, they can kindle the light but it is
the lighting of the lamp within that can overcome our darkness
and reveal the truth that lies hidden.
What is this inner voyage all about? It is the Realization that we

are not what we appear to be. We are not the body made of bone
and skin. We are, in essence, the Divine Power that is throbbing
within. The inner journey is all about shutting off our mind and
senses that are craving for the material world that is outside, an
illusory world that will never quench our thirst and ultimately,
make us burst. It is the inner journey that will Enlighten us. We
will experience the Consciousness that emanates from the Soul,
the Divine Spark Of Unique Life that gives us the Power to live.
The inner journey is discovering the Power that lies within each
cell, inside us.
It's time to start the ultimate voyage of our life, a journey within.
We may cruise on the most exotic ships from continent to
continent. I took a ship to Antarctica and my Guru saw pictures
of me playing with the penguins. Then, he laughed and said,
'These voyages are amazing. But when will you start the inner
voyage?' I felt helpless for years, not knowing how to start this
voyage. Don't many of us ask this question, 'How can we go
within?' Then, one day, I realized the simple answer – If we stop
going outside, we can start going inside. It is only when we cut
off the world's pandemonium and the outside noise that we
will go within and hear the Divine Voice.
A simple way to start the inner voyage is by being in silence.

You may call it meditation. It is the ability to still the mind and
to live in Consciousness. It is flipping over from seeking
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entertainment to seeking Enlightenment. It is introspection and

contemplation of the simple question, 'Who am I?' This simple
question is the most complicated question to answer. But when
we go on an inner voyage, we discover - Neti Neti, Tat Twam Asi
- Not This Not This, Thou Art That. It is in the inner voyage that
we realize, 'I am nothing.' And in that moment, we become
everything. But the challenge is to start that voyage. We may
read all about it but then, close this book and move into the
outside world to be zapped by the rollercoasters of amusement
parks and the glitz and glamour of shopping malls, discos and
pubs. No doubt, we will get momentary pleasure but we will
never discover the true treasure, the Divine Peace and Eternal
Bliss that lies in the sanctum hidden within.
Observe some people who are living in Eternal Bliss. Sometimes,

they have very few possessions and are simple in attire and
habits but they are in a state of Ananda. They have a glow, a
smile and a state of being that elevates them to being blissful
and tranquil. They are Awakened Souls, who have experienced
the inner voyage.
This world of glitz and glamour Imprisons us in a Cage,

To be Free and Liberated, start an Inner Voyage.
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Enlightenment
To go from Yoga to Moksha, we have to cross a bridge called

Enlightenment. If we do not stop and carefully cross the bridge,
we will fall and crash. What is Enlightenment?
While the term Enlightenment is used frivolously, not many

people understand the meaning of it. What is it to be truly
Enlightened? What is it to be Spiritually Awakened? The
answer is simple. The word Enlightenment reveals it.
Enlightenment is to bring in the light. Just like you can't sweep
away darkness from a room with a broom, you need a light. So
also, to sweep away the darkness of ignorance within, we need
Enlightenment. Imagine yourself walking into a room that is
pitch dark. You are groping for the light switch and because it's
a new room, you tumble, fall and hurt yourself. Then, you find
the light switch. You switch it on and now, you can see and are
free from the darkness. So it is with Enlightenment. The only
difference is that the dark room is the inner sanctum of our life.
We live in darkness and so, we fall and hurt ourselves. We
experience the triple suffering of the body, mind and ego
because of the darkness of ignorance, which doesn't make us
realize that we are not this body that we see nor are we the Mind
and Ego that says, 'ME'. Enlightenment reveals the Truth – We
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are the Divine Soul and then, we achieve our ultimate goal of
Moksha.
Enlightenment is to bring in the light of truth and overcome the

myth. It is the Realization of, 'Who am I, in reality and what is
the purpose of my existence?' Unless we go on an inner quest,
we will never realize this.
Yoga creates the aura of silence and Consciousness in which,

we can be Enlightened. But unless a Yogi experiences several
Realizations, he cannot be Enlightened. Very often, it is not
possible to be Enlightened without a Guru. One may take the
help of what has been discussed before, like PIRLU and
MAGIC. One may evolve through the 8 stages of Spiritual
Awakening and pass the 4 doors of Liberation but unless one
puts the pieces of the Spiritual Jigsaw Puzzle together, one-by-
one, Realization by Realization, the inner voyage to
Enlightenment will not be completed.
Therefore, while Yoga is one side of the river of life and Moksha
is the other, it is often said that if we have to cross the shore, we
need to pass the bridge of Enlightenment. Enlightenment is a
spark of light. It is a moment of, 'Aha!' It is an epiphany, an
Awakening, an intuitive discovery. It happens when several
Realizations come together, just like several chemicals in a lab,
leading to a phenomenal reaction. However, nothing can be
compared to the spark of Enlightenment.
Enlightenment is the Realization of the Truth. In simple words,

it is the Realization that I am not 'I' that I will never die, that God
does not live in the sky. This body will die and the ego that says
'I', is a lie. This happens, when we try to find and realize that
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there is no mind. Then, we realize that we are that Spark Of

Unique Life, the Soul and we achieve the goal of Enlightenment.
Whatever is said that is needed for Enlightenment may be

available in a book but you cannot attain Enlightenment with
knowledge from any book, talk or college. You need that spark
of Realization. You need that Awakening. We all live in deep
slumber. We don't know who we are, in reality nor do we know,
why we are here. We just live and die. We cry and believe the lie
that we will, one day go, to the sky. Who will go? The body is
destroyed on earth, we will return in a rebirth and this will go
on-and-on as we are reborn, if we are not Enlightened and don't
attain Moksha.
In that moment of Enlightenment or Realization, we cross the

bridge of ignorance. We Realize the Truth that we are the
manifestations of the Divine. We are not what we appear to be.
We are Divine energy. Enlightenment is not just the wisdom of
this truth. It is an experience. It is a transformation that leads to
a metamorphosis. Till we are Enlightened, we crawl like a
worm or caterpillar, suffering through life but in that moment
of Spiritual Awakening, we develop wings to fly, and are free
from the Mind and Ego, ME. It is not that we did not have wings
but unfortunately, they were tied by strings of ignorance. Every
human being is capable of Enlightenment and then, attaining
Moksha or Liberation from all suffering on earth and from
rebirth but because of ignorance, we do not experience Self-
Realization and end up in a reincarnation.
Enlightenment is the most important achievement of life. It is

the greatest of all successes that we must achieve. Everything
else that we attain will be left behind as we depart from this
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mortal world. It is only Enlightenment that will take us ashore

to being united with the Supreme, the Divine. But how can we
attain Enlightenment?
We have all started on the journey from Yoga to Moksha and we

all have the route map in our hands. There is no confusion. We
can reach the destination but for this, we need Realization. One
by one, we must overcome the myths and replace them with the
truth. Then, we will experience that epiphany. Anybody can. It
is not so complicated to be Enlightened or Spiritually Awakened
but we have to pay the price. The journey is long and arduous
but the reward is the greatest gift, we can attain. To reach that
stage of Enlightenment, we have to be a Yogi, who lives in Yoga.
Without being a true Yogi, one cannot be Spiritually Awakened.
There are people who pretend to be Enlightened but only an
Enlightened person can see through these pretences. Others
may become scapegoats to follow such tricksters and get lost in
the journey of spiritual seeking. This is a pity because we cannot
rewind life. If we follow the wrong path, there is no way we will
reach the right destination. There will be no Realization and
Moksha and the state of Liberation and Unification will remain a
dream.
For Moksha, we must cross the bridge of Enlightenment,

This is our Greatest Success, our Greatest Achievement.
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From Self-Realization
To God-Realization
Moksha is God-Realization. It is Salvation. It is Liberation from
the cycle of death and rebirth and Unification with the Divine.
Different religions will give different definitions but
ultimately, it is freedom from all suffering on earth and from
the cycle of rebirth.
To attain Moksha or a state of God-Realization, there is only one

path. There is no other way. This is known as Self-Realization.
Without Self-Realization, there can be no God-Realization.
Those who try to realize God and take the path of Bhakti or
devotion, will grow in their faith but will never attain God.
They will believe in the fairy tales that scriptures tell and live,
wanting to go to a heaven and not hell. They will try to do good
Karma, caught in this drama called Life but they will never
realize God.
God has to be realized. God is not made of bone and skin. God is
a Power that dwells within. God is nameless and formless. God
is a Power that is Supreme. God is SIP, the Supreme Immortal
Power. Just like we cannot see electricity, we cannot see God.
That does not mean that electricity does not exist or there is no
God. God is present everywhere and in everything. God is
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omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. But we cannot find

God. We have to realize God. Just like we tap into the power
from the sun that glows, wind that blows and water that flows,
we have to tap into the God energy.
To reach the state of God-Realization, we need Self-Realization.

We need to realize, who we are. We need to realize that we are
not the body, we are not the Mind and Ego, ME. We are the
Divine Soul. This is Self-Realization. It is the Realization of the
Truth that we are all a Spark Of Unique Life. We are all Souls
that give life to a body-mind complex or a human being to live
and to redeem Karma. Each human being is therefore, in reality,
a manifestation of God. If we contemplate birth and death, we
will realize this simple truth.
We celebrate our birthday but in reality, we were born 9 months

before. Once we are conceived in our mother's womb, we are
implanted for life. Thereafter, we cannot change our mother.
Life has already begun. What are we then? We are just a zygote,
a single cell powered by the Soul. What we don't realize is that
we are the Soul. Due to ignorance, we start a journey of
reincarnation because there is no Realization that we are the Soul.
Because we think we are the body that dies, our Mind and Ego,
ME, needs to settle its Karma, good or bad. So, we are reborn. In
reality, there is no mind and no ego. They appear together to be
ME but because of ignorance, the cycle continues and there is
no Self-Realization. If only there is the Realization that we are
the Soul, that Spark Of Unique Life, there would be no rebirth.
For this, we need Self-Realization.
Why is Self-Realization so important for God-Realization? Self-

Realization reveals the truth that we are a Spark Of Unique Life,
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the Soul. Not only you and me but every living creature, a dog,
a frog, a cat, a rat, a butterfly, a bee or even a tree, everything
that is alive is nothing but Soul energy. The 5 elements of nature
come together to appear as the living body. Ultimately, every
living creature dies and returns to the 5 elements. What is the
energy that remains and doesn't die? It is the Soul! Haven't we
learnt that energy can neither be created nor destroyed and it
can only be transformed from one form to another? Yes, we
have. So, when we realize that all the 8 billion people and the
trillions of animals, insects, aquatic creatures and plants are all
energy, we realize God is everywhere, in everything. This is
God-Realization. But it happens only with Self-Realization.
First, realizing who we are, the Soul and then realizing that
every living creature is also a Soul or energy.
This Truth has to be Realized. Although one may read about it

and understand it, our mind will continue to make us blind and
stop us from Realization. The truth can't be changed. The fact
that we are energy cannot be disputed but we do not realize,
where this energy comes from and where it goes. When
somebody dies, where does the Soul go? Just like when you
burst a few balloons filled with air, the air inside merges with
the air that is everywhere. So does the Soul. Life energy in us, in
the moment of death, leaves us only to become a part of the
universal energy that is present everywhere.
Therefore, we need Self-Realization. We are, in reality, the Soul

and the energy in us comes from SIP, the Supreme Immortal
Power and goes back to SIP. When we get this Self-Realization,
it takes us forward to God-Realization. We also realize that God
is not a male or a female. God has no birth date and God never
dies. God, too, is a Power, a Supreme Power but to realize this,
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first, we must demystify the fairy tales that we are taught. We

are caught in a lot of myth that we grow up with. It's time to
eliminate all ignorance and realize the Power of God.
Those who attain Self-Realization are slowly blessed to attain

God-Realization. Today, it is easier to reconcile because
science, through its branches of Quantum Physics and
Quantum Mechanics and through the theory of Wave-Particle
Duality endorses that every molecule of matter is, in reality,
nothing but energy. Therefore, science is saying that this world,
all this universe and this cosmos is nothing but energy. Science
calls it the dark matter or the dark energy. Spirituality calls it
SIP, the Supreme Immortal Power. In reality, science and
Spirituality have synergy. Both believe that this whole world is
energy. What is this energy? It is SIP, a Supreme Immortal
Power. This is God-Realization. But it is only possible through
Self-Realization. Those who continue to believe that God is an
old man with a long beard, sitting somewhere up in the skies,
will be caught in lies. They will never attain God. If we truly
love God and want God, we have to realize God and God-
Realization can only come with Self-Realization. We must
realize that we are all God.
There is one and only one way to God-Realization.

Eliminate all confusion and attain Self-Realization.
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24
What Happens At Death?
Every 'body' has to die. No living creature can escape death. But
what is death. To understand death, one must understand life.
Life starts in that moment, when we are conceived and not on
our so-called birthday. A human being is actually born about 9
months before the date on his birth certificate. That date is just
his arrival date. Once we are conceived, in that moment when 2
cells fertilize to become one, our life journey begins. Then, the
body is formed, cell by cell. The cell, powered by the SOUL, a
Spark Of Unique Life, multiplies till we ultimately become 25
billion cells and enter the planet out of our mother's womb.
Unless we understand life, we will not understand that

moment of death. When we lose our breath, that moment is
death. But who dies? Only the body dies. People will then say
that we passed away. In fact, people are so sure that we have left
the body that they burn it and destroy it. Would our loved ones
ever destroy us if we were still alive in the body? No.
Therefore, in this journey called life, we must first, accept the

reality of death and understand the cycle. It all happens
because of Karma. Throughout life, we create Karma, good and
bad. Ultimately, the body dies. It returns to dust, to the very 5
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elements, from which it was formed. Because of ignorance, we,

the Mind and Ego, ME, carry our unsettled Karma and return to
earth in a rebirth. One moment we are gone and the next
moment, we are reborn. This is the ultimate truth and nobody
can deny it.
There is a lot of confusion about what happens at death.

Because of the several religions we follow, many of us choose
one of the fairy tales that we believe in. Some believe we will go
to heaven or hell, while others believe in something else that the
scriptures tell. It is unfortunate that we do not question our
religion because we are warned that it is blasphemous to do so.
Therefore, we blindly follow the herd and believe in the lie that
God lives in the sky. We believe that when we die, we will meet
God on a day of judgement. Then, our entire life will be played
as a movie for us to reflect on and we will be rewarded or
punished. But this is just a figment of somebody's imagination!
So many religions, so many Gods, so many beliefs! But the truth
is one. Lies can be many.
Today, man is more interested in questioning by contemplating

with his intellect. We accept death because death is a reality. But
thereafter, what? Who will go to heaven? Where is this heaven?
And how will we go there? We see the body disintegrate into
dust and so, we must question the lies.
The problem of death is that it creates fear. We fear, not just the
unknown that lies beyond death but also the loss of all that is
known. We fear that we will lose everything that we own. All
our beautiful relationships and our possessions will be
snatched away in the moment of death. Therefore, we fear
death. And because the mind that creates fear, makes us blind,
we don't Realize the Truth of what happens after death.
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What is the truth? At death, one of two things happens. In most

cases, there is reincarnation. We leave one body and carrying
our Karma, we, the Mind and Ego, ME, return to earth in a
rebirth. This happens in most cases because there is no
Realization of the Truth. Very few of us go on a quest and Realize
the Truth. Therefore, we are reborn. There is reincarnation.
Who is reborn? Not the Soul! The Soul is the Spark Of Unique
Life. It is energy. It cannot be created or destroyed. It is immortal.
It gives us life from the moment of conception till the moment
we are gone. Then, it gives us Power when we are reborn. So,
who is reborn? It is not even the body that returns to ashes but
the Mind and Ego, ME.
Most of us return in a rebirth because there is no Realization. If

only we Realize the Truth, there would be no reincarnation. In
the moment of death, when the body dies, we, the realized one,
would be liberated and united with the Divine. This is Moksha
or Nirvana. This is Liberation and Unification and it happens
only after death if there is the Realization of the Truth.
Therefore, at death, the options are simple. Just two –

Reincarnation or Realization. There is no other option. Death is
certain. Every living creature will die but reincarnation is not
certain. In most cases, we are reborn but if we overcome our
ignorance, the Realization liberates us from rebirth and unites
us with the Divine.
To attain Moksha, the ultimate goal of life, we must be

absolutely clear about death. If we follow superstitions and
dogmas, we will live with confusion and the conclusion will be
rebirth. Then, the story will go on and on and we will be reborn.
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But before death, if we realize that there is no mind, it is just a

bundle of thoughts that makes us blind, however much we
find, we cannot see the mind; if we further realize that the ego
that says 'I' is a lie and thus, we are not the Mind and Ego, ME, it
doesn't exist, we will realize the profound truth – We are the
Divine Soul, that Spark Of Unique Life that departs at death. In
the moment of death, the body returns to its 5 elements and we,
the Divine Soul are united with the Supreme. This is our
ultimate goal.
What, then, stops us from Moksha in the moment of death? It is

Karma. Because of ignorance and because we do not live in
Yoga, we live as the body, mind and ego and create Karma.
When the body dies, we have no option but to carry our
unsettled Karma as ME, the Mind and Ego and take a rebirth.
The goal of our life is to realize that we are the Soul that has no
Karma. In the moment of death, such an Enlightened being
becomes one with the Divine. This is Moksha.
Everybody dies, but not all experience Reincarnation.

The blessed ones attain Moksha, if they have Realization.
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25
Transcending Karma
The Ultimate Goal of life is Moksha. Every human being has one
purpose and that is to return to the source of our existence. We
all come from SIP, the Supreme Immortal Power and our goal is
to return to SIP. We are like a wave that splashes on the beach.
Then, it returns to the ocean, only to splash, again and again. If
the wave realizes, 'I am not a wave, I am the ocean,' it will no
more splash as the wave. If we realize that we are not this body
that dies and there is no Mind and Ego, ME, they just appear to
be, we will be free. We will attain Moksha and at death, we will
not return to earth in a rebirth.
But why do we not attain Moksha? It is because of Karma. Every

living being has to do Karma or perform action. We cannot
sleep throughout our life without doing any Karma. We have
no choice. We must wake up, eat, excrete, live and sleep. This
cycle can't be avoided and in the process of this cycle, we have
no option but to perform some actions. These actions may be
good or bad. This continues throughout our life till we die.
During the course of this journey, we live as the body, which in

the mirror we see and presume it is me. The Mind and Ego, ME,
only add to being me. The body, mind and ego together, make
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us create Karma. Our goal is to be free from Karma. Only then

can we attain Moksha. The million-dollar question is, 'How can
we be free from Karma?'
If we do good Karma, it will lead to Moksha. This is the common

belief. But good Karma cannot lead to Moksha. These deeds
become good seeds, which will bear good fruit. Every Karma
that is good must be rewarded and so, we are caught in the cycle
of reincarnation. We need Realization that Karma doesn't
belong to us. The body, of course, has to perform Karma or
action but the Realization needed is that there is no ME. Then,
we are free. The body is just an instrument that acts. As long as
there is ME, the Mind and Ego, there is Karma. More often than
not, the ME, creates both good and bad actions and therefore,
when we are reborn, we experience both pleasure and pain, loss
and gain, and this repeats again and again. How to be free from
this cycle?
We have to transcend Karma. We have to be free from Karma.

How is this possible? Every 'body' has to perform Karma. Then,
how can we be free from it? The secret is – There can be no
freedom from action but there can be freedom in action. We can't
be free from doing action but we can be free from it being our
Karma. Then, in the moment of death, if the Karma is not ours,
we will become one with the Divine. But unfortunately,
because of the Mind and Ego, we cling to the ignorance that we
are ME, the body plus the mind and ego and so, the Karma
becomes ours! The goal of Moksha is attained only by
transcending Karma and for this, we have to first transcend the
Mind and Ego, ME.
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Transcending Karma
The first step in transcending Karma is to realize that there is no

mind. Try to find the mind and you will realize that it is just a
bundle of thoughts. When there are no thoughts, there is no
mind. In a state of no mind, we enter a state of Consciousness. In
this state of Awareness, when we contemplate the ego, it
disappears. Although we say, 'I,' we realize that I am not 'I'. I am
the Soul. This body will die and the Mind and Ego, ME is caused
by ignorance. In Consciousness, we realize that there is no ME.
Therefore, I do nothing. We need this Realization. Otherwise,
we will do Karma and experience reincarnation. Therefore, we
must get to the bottom of the root and Realize the Truth. This
two-step method that there is no mind and I am not 'I' - the ego,
will free us from Karma. We will surrender all Karma to the
Supreme, the Divine and this will take us to Moksha.
Everybody who reads this, cannot attain Moksha but those who
Realize this Truth, can. It is not enough to know that we are not
the Mind and Ego, ME. We must realize it. What is the difference?
Knowing is knowing but realizing is doing. When we Realize
the Truth, we live as the Divine instrument. We live as a Karma
Yogi, one who has no expectations from his Karma and
surrenders his actions to the Divine. The Karma Yogi does nothing
except the Divine Will. Therefore, he does not accumulate any
Karma, even though he performs actions. He attributes all
actions to the Lord and his actions are under the direction of the
Supreme. So, he is free from Karma.
If we want to attain Moksha, we have to transcend Karma. It

means that although we do actions, we do not consider them to
be ours. A Karma Yogi transcends the ego and the mind. He lives
as the Soul. He realizes that he is a manifestation of the
Supreme. Thus, he is free from the triple suffering of the body,
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mind and ego on earth and in the moment of death, he will be

free from rebirth. This is Moksha.
To attain Moksha, we must go through the entire journey of

Yoga till we attain Moksha. If we slip, we will be back in Bhoga,
this Samsara, just like we fall in a game of snakes and ladders.
We have to beware of the snakes - Our sensual desires, mind
and ego. In the game of life, we must move from ladder to
ladder and not get bitten by snakes. Alas! Most of us get bitten
by our desires, passions and lust. The game goes on and on, as
we are reborn.
Our goal is to transcend Karma, live as a Karma Yogi and attain

Moksha. Every human being is in a sense, Divine. Each one of us
is a manifestation of the Supreme but because we don't
transcend the Mind and Ego, ME, we are not free. Not only do
we suffer on earth but we also return in a rebirth. The path is
simple but still, it is so difficult. If we really want to be one with
the Lord, we can. But we get so lost in this world of glitz and
glamour, that we forget to be in Yoga. We sink in Bhoga. We
create Karma and then, there is no Moksha!
If we Transcend Karma, we can be Free.

But first, we must Transcend the Mind and Ego, ME.
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Chapter
26
Our Ultimate
Goal Is Moksha
As we come to the end of the most beautiful voyage in the
world, we are heading towards the destination Moksha. Moksha
is a result of the journey of Yoga but it is attained only after we
lose our breath in the moment of death. How, then, can we be
sure that something like Moksha, exists? What if it is just another
myth, another illusion?
Death is certain. Nobody denies it, just as we see birth

happening every day. And the Law of Karma governs the
universe. This drama called life is unfolding as per Karma. This
is a universal truth that nobody can deny. The ones who realize
this also realize that the ultimate purpose of life is to be free
from this drama, this trauma and from Karma. The result is
Moksha. There is no other option. We don't know what exactly
the experience of Moksha is but we can be sure that it exists.
God is beyond human definition and comprehension. God is

SIP, the Supreme Immortal Power and there is no doubt that
this Power or energy, as science calls it, fills the universe. There
is also no doubt that we are a speck of Power that throbs from
birth to death. So, in the moment of death, where does this
Power go? The Power doesn't go anywhere. It only leaves us to
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become one with the Power that is omnipresent or present

everywhere. After the wave splashes, where does the wave go?
It merges into the ocean. If in a birthday party, we burst a bunch
of balloons, where does the air go? The air merges with the air
that is everywhere. So does the Soul. This is the truth and it has
to be realized. It cannot be learnt. We have to be Awakened to
this Truth. So, it is called Realization, Enlightenment or
Spiritual Awakening.
When we are Awakened to the Truth that we are the Divine

Soul, we are prepared to attain Moksha. As long as we are alive,
we are still bound by the body and its senses, the mind and ego.
The ego, however, for an Enlightened Being is no more the ego
that says 'I'. The ego now says, 'I am not 'I'.' The ego says, 'I will
never die.' The mind doesn't merge with the ego and become
ME. The Ego is Enlightened! Only an Enlightened Ego that lives
as the Divine Soul is ready to attain Moksha. Only such an
Enlightened Ego is liberated from all material desires and
cravings and is thus, free from the triple suffering on earth and
in the moment of death, will be free from the cycle of rebirth.
Moksha is not a common commodity that anybody can

purchase. Moksha is very rare. Less than 1% of this world
embarks on the journey from Yoga to Moksha. Of this 1%, only
1% lives as a Yogi and attains Mukti, when alive. This makes it
0.01% at most, who are Enlightened. From this small fraction,
not even 1% will attain Moksha. This makes it 0.0001%. While
these are just numbers, they are indicators that we will not see
Enlightened beings at every corner. A true Yogi is rare to find.
The journey of Yoga is not an outward show but an inward
connection with the Divine. The ecstasy of joy and bliss
experienced by a true Yogi may radiate to the world outside but
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only the Yogi enjoys that Eternal Bliss as he lives in Truth

Consciousness.
The purpose of life is Moksha. Even thousands of years ago, the

purpose was Moksha. The ultimate purpose has not changed
over the centuries. But the world of Bhoga has changed. More
and more material pleasures have flooded our Samsara or
world. Therefore, over time, the journey to Moksha has only
become more and more difficult. However, with the
development of communication and technology, the recipe of
Moksha is easier to find than it was in the past. Earlier, one could
not reach an Enlightened Master easily. But in today's world,
one can easily connect with a Spiritually Awakened Guru, who
can guide one on the path to Moksha. Therefore, time has not
made Moksha easier or more difficult. Sincere seekers will find a
way to start the Yogic journey, just as insincere miscreants will
create confusion and make Realization more difficult.
All said and done, ultimately, we have to attain Moksha. If we

don't, we will be gone and be reborn. If we are fortunate to be
born as human beings again, we will have another chance to be
liberated and to be united with the Divine. Some people get so
frustrated with life that they contemplate suicide.
Such was a young boy doing his final school examinations. He told his
th
teacher that he could not cope and did not want to sit for the 10 year
final examinations. He told the teacher that he was contemplating the
best method to end his life. The clever teacher told him that he could use
a rope or even chemicals, rather than fire but he also gently warned his
student, 'Please remember, that if you skip your final exam and commit
suicide, you will have to return and start all over again from kindergarten.'
The young boy was startled and putting the thought of suicide aside,
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went straight on to take his examinations. Some of us who try to

escape life, do not realize that life is not a choice. What we do
with life, is our choice.
We all have to live and one day, this life will end. We can either
live in peace and bliss as a Yogi or suffer running after pleasure
in this world of trinkets and treasures. We can be caught in a
prison of pleasures, possessions and people or we can attain
true treasure of Moksha. It is for us to use our intellect, a special
blessing that only we humans have, to discriminate and choose.
If we do not choose Yoga and the path to Moksha, we will lose
the opportunity to live blissfully and ultimately, to be liberated
and united with the Divine. We are all Divine manifestations
but lost in ignorance. It's time to stop and take the path of
Realization. It's time to eliminate all confusion and seek that
ultimate goal of Moksha or Nirvana, Salvation or Liberation so
that in the final moments, not only do we live with peace and
bliss on earth but are united with the Divine and free from the
cycle of rebirth.
This Journey of Life is to Ultimately attain Moksha.

Going beyond Maya, Leela, Karma, living in Yoga.
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Afterword
It has taken me 75 books to arrive at the method to go from Yoga

to Moksha. I have written books on Yoga, just as I have written
books on Mukti, Liberation, Salvation, Nirvana or Moksha. But
this journey is not an easy one. It is one of the most difficult
journeys of life, though going within seems so simple. But
because we are dragged into the outer world, it is so difficult
to live as a Yogi and attain that ultimate destination, Moksha.
There are many who will not even accept that there is
something called Moksha and Nirvana. They will blindly believe
the lie that after death, they will meet their God in the sky. They
live, they cry, they die and they do not discover the simple truth
– 'Who am I?'
Some people like us, you and me, who want to ponder, who
want to go deeper and see, become free. We are liberated from
the body, which we are not and the mind and ego that fools us
into believing we are me. It is a simple truth that we are energy.
Even science endorses it today that everything in this world is
ultimately, nothing but energy appearing as matter. It is a
matter of time before Spirituality, the science of the spirit will
be a curriculum in schools and colleges.
But will everybody be able to attain Moksha? Even though we

study Spirituality, the science of the spirit, we will still struggle
because we are all slaves of the mind. It will continue to keep us
in ignorance and we will be blind. It will stop us from being in
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Yoga and we will sink in Bhoga. No doubt, the future will see
many more realized Souls. They will Realize the Truth but will
continue to struggle in transcending this world of Maya, the
Cosmic Illusion. People will still be lost in this Leela, this show.
Why?
Realization is not knowledge that we can learn in a college. It is

an experience and it needs the guidance and help of a Guru, an
Enlightened Master. I was blessed to find one. My Guru held
my hand and walked me through my journey, till I got that
st
spark of Spiritual Awakening on the 31 of August 2014. It was
only after that day that I started my journey from Yoga to
Moksha. After 10 years of living a life of Divine Consciousness, I
am able to share this path, the path of peace, bliss, love and joy. I
am able to show people the reality of life, death and how we are
that Soul that gives us breath. It is my mission to help seekers,
who want to be liberated from this cycle of death and rebirth, to
be united with the Divine. I realized that we are all
manifestations of the Supreme. We all are but we don't realize
it! It is my purpose to help seekers discover this purpose and be
free from the triple suffering on earth and from rebirth.
Ultimately, I can lay down the path, I can talk but you have to
walk. It is your journey and you must initiate your life for the
Realization of the Truth and for a transformation, a
metamorphosis.
I, too, went on a Quest and was blessed with the Realization.

From Yoga to Moksha, my life experienced a Transformation.
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POEM
FROM
YOGA
TO
MOKSHA
Are you in search of Happiness?
Do you want that state of Eternal Bliss?
Then, begin the Journey from Yoga to Moksha
And you are sure to achieve this!
Who am I and why am I here?

Have you pondered this, are you clear?
We just live and cry and die
We don't discover the Truth, we don't live with cheer!
We listen to many, the right path we don't choose

And the valuable Journey of Life, we lose!
We wander through Life and soon we are gone
And then, we blink and we are reborn!
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Poem
Is it not certain that there will be death?

Every living creature will lose their breath
But we don't discover what brought us to earth
Why did we take this human birth?
We just live through Life and face trauma

We don't realize that it is just a big drama
We don't know what is Yoga and Moksha
And don't discover that everything is Karma
It all begins when we start a Quest

When we put all our beliefs to test
When we become free from this material world or Bhoga
And learn to live as a Yogi, in Yoga
Then, we are not perturbed by this earthly show

We live as an observer, watching people come and go
This world is nothing but Maya, an Illusion
We discover the Truth, attain Realization
After we are born, we all learn and earn

But then, ultimately, we burn and return
Those who live a life in Yoga
Attain Moksha as they turn and yearn
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Poem
We live in this world with desires and greed

We don't learn to be Happy as we fulfil our need
Our passion makes us seek everything as 'mine'
And ultimately, we lose the treasure Divine!
The fact is that we are nothing but Divine energy

We are not this body, or Mind and Ego, ME
But because we don't embark on this journey
We live like slaves, we are not free!
The biggest enemy is our mind!

It is the one that makes us blind!
And although when we search, the mind we can't find
It causes ignorance and makes us leave the Truth behind
We must learn to decipher what is wrong and right

Activate the Intellect and see, black and white
We must flip over from Mind to Consciousness!
Then, we will be free from all misery and stress!
Our ultimate destination is Ananda, Eternal Bliss

It is living in Truth Consciousness
It is living like a Yogi and seeking Nirvana or Moksha
It is moving from one state to another, of Yoga
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Poem
Can everybody attain this Divine Realization?

Can everybody attain Moksha or Liberation?
Only those who start a Journey of Purification
Will be Enlightened with Divine Illumination
Because we are lost in this material world or Bhoga

We don't live in Divine Union, in Yoga!
We experience pleasure and pain on earth
And then to suffer, take another rebirth!
The Truth is there is no heaven and hell

These are fairy tales that scriptures tell
Heaven and hell are right here on earth
We experience them, as we take birth!
The only way to attain God is Realization

Going from Self to God-Realization
Then, we will attain Moksha or Salvation
So, let's start with Yoga and reach our destination!
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- ATMAN IN AVI
FROM YOGA
TO MOKSHA
What is the journey from Yoga to Moksha? Why should we be in
Yoga and how can we attain Moksha? We hear of these Spiritual
terms but we are lost in wrong interpretations. We do some
physical exercises or Asanas, some breathing techniques or
Pranayama and we think that we are doing Yoga.
Yoga is Yuj or union. It is realizing that we are the Divine Soul
and then, being united with the Supreme. It is experiencing an
ecstasy of Bliss and Everlasting Peace, as we evolve through
life. A true Yogi Realizes the Truth! He is Enlightened, Spiritually
Awakened. Only he is qualified to embark upon the journey to
Nirvana or Moksha.
We all want to be happy but we do not realize what happiness is
and how we can live a life of SatChitAnanda, Eternal Bliss in
Truth Consciousness. This journey from Yoga to Moksha, will
transform our life as we discover, 'Who am I and why am I here?'
We will discover our purpose on earth, as we are liberated from
all misery and the cycle of rebirth.
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3. The Journey From Yoga To Moksha 15

4. The 4 States Of Yoga 19

6. Yoga Versus Bhoga 27

7. This World Is A Leela 31

9. The Life Of A Yogi 39

10. The Ancient Purushartha 43

12. Our Mind Makes Us Blind 51

14. Importance Of A Guru 59

15. We Need Mukti Or Freedom 63

16. The Journey Of PIRLU 67

17. We Need MAGIC 71

18. There Are 8 Stages Of Spiritual Awakening 75

19. The 4 Doors To Liberation 79

20. The Spiritual Jigsaw Puzzle 83

21. The Inner Voyage 87

23. From Self-Realization To God-Realization 95

24. What Happens At Death? 99

25. Transcending Karma 103

26. Our Ultimate Goal Is Moksha 107

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Life has a purpose but not many of us discover the purpose of

After writing over 75 books on the subject of life, happiness,

If we want Moksha, Yoga is the Way.

In today's world, if we want to drive in an unknown country,

This world is a Leela, a drama or a show. We are mere actors

Everybody must die. But what is the reality? What happens

To go from Yoga to Moksha, we must Transcend Karma.

The whole world is talking of Yoga. Is it some magical exercise

People think that Yoga is just Asana and Pranayama, a set of

Pranayama is a set of breathing techniques. We are taught to

A Saint named Patanjali is famous for his theory and practice of

Then, what is Yoga, to a common man? He is fooled into

to be in a state of Consciousness, so as to Realize the Truth.

Let us understand the essence of Yoga. In this world of physical

Yoga is Yuj or Union of the Soul with the Divine.

Moksha is Liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth. It is

Moksha is also called Nirvana or Salvation. The terms are

Why should we attain Moksha? Buddha, the Enlightened One,

If we want to attain Moksha, we first have to be free from all

On a quest for answers, the sincere seekers of Moksha,

Mukti means freedom from the ignorance that I am 'I'. It is

In the pursuit of Moksha, we must first transcend the mind. It is

certificate. This body was formed over 9 months in our mother's

forward to another life. The Mind and Ego, ME, is only an