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  After a long break we are back here with new exciting blogs on some of the sayings of the great sages like Vashishtha, Ashtavakra, Avadhuta, as also, the 'pathway to salvation', muktimarg. This problem of salvation is an eternal one and nobody knows whether anybody has attained it!  In the beginning, it needs a very sincere and steadfast single-minded attention  (dhruti) preceded by atma chintana. Adhyatma sadhana, spiritual practices, are not everybody's cup of tea. It is reserved for senior people who have undergone the mill after struggling to eke out a living and finally rest at old age. It is indeed, purushartha sadhane, accomplishment in life; it is working for moksha on the basis of dharma and fulfilling the artha (means to live) and kama (fulfilling desires). In a way, every jiva undergoes childhood (balya), youth (youvana), grushastha (family way of life) and reach vanaprastha where one sits in contemplation for getting out of entanglements and bondage. No one aspires for total renunciation in the true sense of the term, sannyas (sat-nyasa, sum-nyasa, or snnyasa). It requires enormous will-power to renounce the worldly life and get into a secluded life where there is not even light, air and water (as in the caves of the Himalayas or other mountains. In fact most of the people who go in the garb of sanyasis are not the real renunciates since they have not given up desire and sankalpa (resolve to work).
  All the great sages have only one thing to say. It is extremely difficult to understand what they say.What they assert is simply- "This world is not real"! Then what is this we are seeing? What is it we are experiencing day and night? Ah! Exactly. It is this experience that they attribute to our "ignorance"! Our ignorance has created this world of objects, they say. It is these names, forms, and functions that we are dealing with in our day to day life is what is avidya, It is avidya (lack of proper understanding, right knowledge), vidya (right knowledge) covered by desire, attachment, selfishness, etc. are the blemishes (created by the mind. The moment one removes all these 'attributes' created by the mischievous mind the world disappears! So the phenomenal, objective, transient, world of objects that come within the grip of maya (that which is measurable)- time,space and causality is not real. This real understanding will rarely come to a person deeply involved in the day-to-day hustle bustle of life. He who does not get entangled in these trivialities of life is a wise man. To be a witness to the happenings is the best! This is what the jnyani tells us.  .