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from all pain (unhappiness; dukh) is the first stage of moksha, and the second stage of moksha is liberation from the worldly life (sansar)! Once you attain the first moksha, you will see the second moksha right in front of you, it will come to you on its own. The first liberation (mukti), is in the form of 'causes', and the second is in the form of 'effect'. After freedom from ‘causes', you can carry on with your worldly duties of marrying off your children and all that. There is intent of freedom (mukta bhaav) even in that and right now, 'effect moksha is not possible. I myself remain in the 'causes' moksha and all other work carries on.
By whichever body (deha) one attains the awareness of freedom, one only has one or more lifetimes (deha). Which Is More Difficult, Path of Moksha or Path
of Worldly Life?
The moksha marg cannot be difficult, but sansar marg (the path of the worldly life) is. How many things do you need to boil water in a large tank? And how much effort is required to boil that water? And then what do you have to do to cool the water? Thereupon a person will be baffled by, how to cool it down?' You being gnani (knowledgeable) would say to him, “Just put out the fire and get some sleep'. He would be wondering, how after taking so long to heat, the water would manage to cool down so quickly. But the inherent nature of water is to be cold, so naturally it will cool by itself. To heat water is the same as bringing it into the nature of the worldly life (sansar). To come into the nature of the Self (swabhav) is called moksha, and to go out of it (vibhav-attribute that is not of the Self; 'I am Chandulal') is the worldly life (sansar). For you to attain such a Bhed Gnan (the knowledge that separates the Self from the non-Self), you must meet a Gnani, only then Your work is done; otherwise you will never find any stability for millions of lifetimes.
