Shri Hari
Respected elders!
Please enlighten me on an issue that has been lingering on my mind for a while..
Is Mukti/Liberation as cheap as it is "portrayed/interpreted" as in our Shastras???
In my very little reading recently I have come across many places/references that I am sure everyone has themselves come across where the Shastra says
If one .................................. he/she will be given liberation.
The gap can be filled with many references from our shastras....for eg
a) does Tirth darshan of xxxxxxxx or yyyyyyyyyyy
b) has a bathe in the river xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (like Ganga, Jamuna, Radha Kund)
c) drinks the charnamrita of Lord in his Deity or Salagram form, as per..
Akaal mrityu harnam, Sarva vyadhi vinashanam, Vishno(Salagram) padodakam pitva, punar janma na vidyate
d) Offers one tulasi to the Lord (in the month of Kartika)
e) does dIpa dAnam to the Lord in kArtika
Similarly in various stotras or prayers written for the Lord...I am sure the respected elders have come across stotras etc where in it there lies mention of one who reads this nn number of times or on a certain day like pUrnimA or ekAdasi etc are given Liberation.....
So as a young person I believe and see that
a) in this world that good things come with hard work
b) People sacrifice their whole life to get the love of the Lord
c) people in the past (ages and yugas) have gone through enormous pain to enter the Lord's divya Dhaams
So for me...it seems that Mukti or Liberation is percieved as so cheap that one can go to a local travel agent, book a ticket to a certain Teerth sthaan and visit and take darshan and as a result attain a GUARANTEED ticket to the LORDS DHAAM when they leave their body....and irrespective of what the person does in their daily lives....including
a) not taking shelter of Acharyen
b) be involved in consuming Liquor and meat
c) not practising devotion in their daily lives
I am not contesting our shastras...I have great faith in them... I believe that I am not interpreting them correctly as per the "desired" meaning.
So please I beg the respected and Wise elders to enlighten me to what "seems" as a great inconsistency, unfairness, anomaly in our shastras.
Please pardon my offences...I am genuinely seeking enlightenment.
Your servant.
Deepak
Shri Hari
Narayana Narayana Narayana
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