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(symbolic biers of Husain the martyr of Islam taken into procession on his anniversary day in the month of Moharrum). The Moslem friend became very excited when he saw the Tajiyas and could not resist the urge to join the procession. He told his friend he would be back in a few minutes. He got into the thick of the procession and started shouting, 'Ya Housey.... Housey'. His friend waited patiently as the minutes turned into half an hour but his friend would not leave the procession. The baniya would signal every five minutes for him to come out, but he would not. Finally after an hour, the Baniya got tired and grabbed hold of his friend's arm to pull him out, but instead found himself being dragged in the procession. The Muslim friend told him that they would do two more minutes of Housey, Housey...', and then leave. So then the Moslem friend started shouting "Housey...Housey... and the baniya friend, with a saddened face joined in by shouting 'Ayi Fasaya...Ayi Fasaya!' ("I am trapped, I am trapped').
That is the kind of world this is. Once trapped, it is difficult to get out. Only a Gnani Purush can pull you out. The world is a trap of wrong beliefs and illusions. Only upon elimination of the wrong beliefs is release possible. But how can you get rid of the wrong beliefs and the illusion? It happens only when the Gnani awakens you by shaking you from your deep sleep of ignorance. No one else can do that. Without His help, the more you try to be free, the more you entangle yourself.
Charge And Discharge Darshan moha (illusion due to wrong belief leading to worldly attachment and new karma) is 'charge moha' and charitra moha (effect of past life's moha, illusion, which does not bind new karma) is 'discharge moha'. Water is darshan moha and ice is charitra moha. What causes the charging to take place?
Charging occurs when chetan (the Self) comes in contact
with achetan (non-Self) and loses its self-identity, his real awareness. This absorption of the Self into the non-Self causes the charging. Getting lost in whatever one repeatedly remembers and recollects causes the charging. What do people remember? It is that towards which they have either extreme attachment (raag) or extreme abhorrence (dwesh). The attachment and abhorrence towards that which is discharging creates charging of new karma. This is because the Self becomes what it identifies with in the realm of the non-Self. This is how the worldly life is perpetuated. That, which is charged through the blunder (of wrong belief of, 'I am Chandulal'), charged because of illusion, continues to be discharged.
A woman passing by a shop sees a beautiful sari. She becomes captivated by its beauty and become engrossed with thoughts of the sari. There is nothing wrong with her looking at the sari and appreciating its beauty, but the illusion (moha) that arises within her for the sari is the problem. The fact that she sees the sari and likes it is her discharge moha but because she becomes so engrossed by it, her moha, which was in the process of being discharged, charges anew again. She is so captivated by the sari that she actually becomes the length and the breadth of the sari. Every floral motif and sequin on the sari becomes ingrained on her being. Her entire self raptures in the sari and even when she comes home, her chit remains in the sari hanging in the shop. When her husband notices that she is preoccupied and asks if she is feeling ill or lost somewhere, little does the poor man know that while she is physically at home her chit is hovering in the sari shop. This is what the Lord calls charge moha, charge illusion.
There is nothing wrong in eating and enjoying the best foods and desserts, but if the taste of food lingers on and you have a desire to enjoy it again and again, then it will charge anew again. When you become engrossed in what you are
