Questioner: Namaskar Acharya Ji. You talked of Mukti. So, I would like to know, is it a Mukti from life and birth? I mean, more, If you can elaborate?
Acharya Prashant: Mukti from internal compulsions. The goal of life can be talked of as Mukti which is Liberation, which is also called freedom. So, if freedom is the goal of life, surely, we are presupposing bondage. Right? Without bondage, there can be no question of freedom, Liberation, or Mukti. So that’s what the freedom is from. All kinds of compulsions.
Questioner: Ya, that is again a superficial way of Mukti? The deeper level as you say, or we read, that Mukti to be desireless, to be detached and finally like mentioned in the scriptures, I mean, like the final, ultimate goal of every human being, we have been given birth, it is to be free from the cycle of birth and rebirth. Is that what it is?
Acharya Prashant: It is not your next birth that troubles you. It is the bondages that you experience in this birth, right here, that’s what troubles you. Who is experiencing troubles related to the next birth, please tell me.
And all of us indeed do have troubles. What are your troubles about? Here, this! So that’s the compulsion we carry — to entertain troubles, to not to drop them, to think that we are helpless in the matter of troubles. That’s what Liberation is. Liberation is not about the previous birth or the next birth. Liberation is freedom from the bondages that you experience right now.
