The merchants of religion meanwhile act as middlemen in this
WHY ? business of Moksha. A frightened, discouraged and miserable pilgrim
MOKSH is FREE
Shishye Thompson
;r% ikiL; osrua ej.ka
fdURo vLekda izHkq.kk ;h'kq –h"Vs vuar thoue~
bZ'oj naÙk nkue~ vkLrsA
[Wages for sin is death, but the gift of God is Eternal Life in Jesus Christ]
(Bible Rom. 6:23)
Every one is searching for Moksha, they travel far and wide for
this and even go for pilgrimages. While doing all this, first requirement
is to find God, and then ask him the way to get forgiveness from sin,
and then receive Moksha [salvation].
Every religion speaks of the requirement of Moksha or salvation.
An inner voice from within man warns him of the impending
uncertainty of tomorrow. Man has come into the world, and his
earthly body, or even this world is not his final destination. The
spirit of man will come out from his body and move on to the next
destination, that is the judgment seat of God. His body made of the
elements of this earth, will return to the dust.
Therefore salvation from Sin, Moksha and attaining a heavenly
abode is the need of everyone. No one is looking forward to a
destination of fiery hell, and torture in the darkness of eternity.
Therefore being afraid of a tomorrow every human being is willing
to pay a price to attain salvation or Moksha.
1. What should be the Price?
With a narrow view, and limited wisdom, most people tend to
think about the cost for this salvation. Some are ready to endure pain
and torture, others do penance, and still others good works. They
search for God with their own knowledge and philosophy, and
wander through religious places and pilgrimages.
They go around asking the cost of salvation so that they can
arrange to pay it. They search their pockets for money and material.
A rich person is willing to pay a higher price and be satisfied, whereas
a poor man is willing to work it out with labor and rituals.
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falls into the net of these cheats.
All his money gets stolen; he gets tired without concrete evidence
or peace of God. All he has is false hope and uncertainty, and returns
home.
2. No Moksha with Money & Material:
Can we give anything to God? This is just impossible. The maker
of heaven and the universe is God himself. He has created all that
exists. He has created us the human beings, and he is the owner of all
creation.
If we take anything out of this creation and gift him or pay him as
the price of our salvation then it is neither a gift nor the price because
it all belongs to him anyway.
All our money and wealth, that we have is received from his
hand, so what gift shall we give? What price for our salvation shall
we pay?
3. Greatness of God in the Universe & weakness of Man:
Let us try to understand this. In this vast universe, our earth can
be compared and seen as a speck of dust. Our Sun is one million
times larger than our earth. And there are other Suns in the universe
that are millions of times larger than our own Sun, and are called
Stars, that shine in the night sky.
A cloud of millions of Stars is called a Galaxy. And we are able to
see millions of such Galaxies with the modern powerful Telescope.
The name of our own Galaxy is ‘Milky Way’ and to travel within
this Galaxy from one end to the other at the speed of light i.e.
300000kms/sec will take 100000 years.
To get an idea of the vastness of time and space, let us decide to
travel through just ten out of the millions of Galaxies, and it will take
more than one 10 million years to accomplish this travel.
This vast universe is created by God himself. And within this our
own Earth could be compared as a speck of dust. And imagine if we
look into this particle with a powerful Microscope, then comparatively
we humans will look like, the size of Microbes.
Now this microbe size human in this vastness of universe, and in
the presence of a great God, is not taking Gods help for his Salvation.
Man with his pride and arrogance, would like to buy his salvation
with his own efforts and gifts.
 This can be understood with an earthly example. Imagine there
is a king who has millions of tons of Gold and silver and millions of
tons of Diamonds in his possession. And in his kingdom there is a
criminal who would like to pay for his crime and be freed from
punishment by paying one Rupee to the King and please him through
this gift and buy his freedom. Will this logic work?
Will a similar method work for salvation or Moksha. Sure you
agree that this is a foolish way to even think and it is just impossible.
The almighty and living creator God is a loving God. We need
grace and mercy from him and love to be forgiven from sin, and
rescued from evil. Salvation of soul cannot be purchased by money,
material or gifts.
4. No Moksha by efforts of Good works or Karma:
By mere good works, moksh cannot be obtained. The reason for
this is that sin is not only committed by external actions, but is also
inclusive of evil and sinful thoughts and attitudes, that are invisible
from outside but hidden within in the heart and mind.
Murder is an external fruit of sin, but the hidden seed of this is
anger. A sexual assault is an external fruit of sin but the hidden seed
is lust in the heart. Stealing is the fruit of sin but the seed is hidden as
greed in our hearts.
So the fact is, even if we eliminate the visible fruit of sin by our
efforts of good work, God will not be satisfied with our life, infected
with sinful thought life.
The sin within us keeps declaring us, as sinners before God.
Therefore to think that by doing some good works, through our
efforts and pride we can receive salvation is impossible. It is just like
cleaning a vessel from outside when the inside remains filthy. This is
like treatment of an inner disease, only externally.
From outside we look religious and holy men, whatever our
religion, but in the inside we still have lies, anger, greed and evil.
Our external eyes cannot see it, but God knows everything and sees
everything.
5. No Moksha with religious Gurus, human wisdom or Philosophy:
It is written in the Bible: John 3:13. “No one has ever gone to
heaven and returned. But the Son of Man [Lord Jesus] has come
down from heaven”.
If any human Guru by his intelligence, knowledge, philosophy,
miracles or tantra magic influences others and leads them into his
own cult and belief, then in this path salvation will not be obtained,
but self destruction, in the eternal fires.
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6. Moksha is Free and God himself has paid the Price:
God has come into the world in the human body to pay for the
salvation of our souls. Lord Jesus, the son of God becomes a man and
descends on earth, to reveal to the humans the will of God, the love
of God, the path of salvation, truth and eternal life.
On the third day after his sacrifice on the cross, Jesus Christ comes
out of death to life and on the 40th day after his resurrection from
death he ascends towards heaven in the sight of a large crowd that
gathers on a mountain. By himself becoming the Way, the Truth and
Life, Lord Jesus becomes our Salvation.
The cost of Moksha can only be paid by almighty God himself.
This is because he only knows the price of Moksha. And in Gods
calculation the cost is a Holy and pure sacrifice as a substitute that
pays, to save man from the punishment of sin.
Sacrifice should be holy because God is holy. This is why Lord
Jesus fits in as a true incarnation of God. He took the human body
and by the death on the cross he sacrificed his holy blood and thus
became a perfect sacrifice for our salvation. Because of the Love of
God for mankind a way of salvation has been provided.
It is like a loving Father who sacrifices his own life to save his
dying child.
The remedy for death is Life. The cost of Moksha is sacrifice of
substitutionary Holy blood [life]. And the reason for sacrifice is love.
Love discovers the way of Moksha. Love sets the price of Moksha.
And this has been gifted to humans freely by God himself.
Today Lord Jesus is seated in heaven. He is willing to be your
way of salvation, the price of salvation, your forgiveness from sin
and grant you eternal life in heaven.
7. In the bible it is written in John 3:16:
For God so much loved this world that he gave his son Jesus
Christ as a gift, so that whoever will believe in Him will not perish in
hell but receive eternal life [salvation /moksha].
8. Your Prayer:
Lord Jesus I am a sinner, I believe that you paid the price of my
salvation by your own holy blood. Please forgive my sins and give
me Moksha.
SHISHYASHRAM
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