Hinduism

To understand Moksha we must first understand Reincarnation.

THE CONVENTIONAL CONCEPT OF REINCARNATION:

Reincarnation means entry of our soul into the body of an animal or a human being after our death. Good deeds enable to be born into higher caste family and bad deeds make us to be born into a lower caste family.

THE CONVENTIONAL CONCEPT OF MOKSHA:

Moksha is defined as liberation from unending cycles of Reincarnation.

Moksha makes us one with Brahman and enables us to have Brahmajnana, the supreme Hindu knowledge.

The conventional Hindu concept of Moksha may be confusing because we would be getting Brahmajnana after our death or more probably, after many deaths.

REINCARNATION ACCORDING TO BRAHMAJNANA:

Reincarnation means transformation of an activity every time it is repeated. It is this transformation that we have to prevent to attain Moksha. However, we have to prevent transformation of every activity of our life. Fortunately, we would be attaining Moksha in the present life only.

MOKSHA ACCORDING TO BRAHMAJNANA:

Moksha means abolition of transformation of an activity every time it is repeated. The aim is to execute the activity with pure facilitating force (Saguna Brahman). During rest we would have pure retarding force (Nirguna Brahman) Thus, Moksha would enable us to become one with Brahman, the supreme Hindu god.

FACTORS THAT CAUSE TRANSFORMATION OF ACTIVITIES WHEN THEY ARE REPEATED:

1. TIME:

Increase or decrease of time available for the execution of the activity

2. THE MODES:

The modes cause the activity to interact with other activities

1. Shudra/ chaotic mode - No interaction with other activities

2. Vaishya/ tolerable mode - Interaction through a lower limit

3. Kshatriya/ normal mode- Through an upper and a lower limit

4. Brahmana/ ideal mode - Upper and lower limit is the same and interaction with all the activities of life.

It is obvious that in the Shudra mode there would be chaotic changes and in the Brahmana mode, no change at all.

3. THE GODS:

There are seven basic Hindu gods.

They are,

1. Indra - god of dreaming

2. Shakti - god of illusion

3. Brahma - god of creativity

4. Vishnu - god of stabilization

5. Shiva - god of determination

6. Shani - god of status alteration

7. Yama - god of compulsion

Unintentional change of god before re execution would result in transformation of the activity.

The seven basic Hindu gods are derived from Brahman. Conversely, the seven gods put together form Brahman.

Thus, to attain Moksha we must always use the seven gods together as a single unit. However, for simplicity we use just one god, either Shiva or Krishna incarnation of Vishnu to attain Moksha.