In the name of Spiritualism

If you behave badly now, you will go to hell after death… I have heard this so many times since my childhood… but there is always one thing that bothered me when I heard this statement. Who has really seen life after death? If no one has ever seen life after death then who has defined this hell or heaven? I am by no means saying we should be bad. In fact I want to be good too, but not to go to heaven or hell, but just because I want to be good.

To be good in terms of spirituality is to be God fearing. While God fearing is fine, what is not fine is following all those disciples who misuse people’s emotion in the name of spirituality. There are people who follow these disciples so blindly that they quit their own way of living life & start living life for achieving mukti or Moksha, which literally means release. Most of the people who are firm believers of these disciples say that to achieve moksha or mukti from this life the ultimate that everyone wants. What is the release? From where is the release? Release is the liberation from Samsara (our family, society, social life etc) and concomitant suffering involved in being subject to the cycle of repeated death and reincarnation or rebirth says Wikipedia. So, doesn’t release mean that you are in some way looking forward for your death? And how can God fear or following these disciples help you achieve release? To achieve the release that they think as Moksha or mukti, are these people actually not missing out on living the life for today? Is it not a coward way to say I want mukti or release? Is it way too different than committing suicide? Only difference I see is that they are not killing themselves, instead hoping the death to strike them naturally.

In Hinduism, it is said that everyone has 4 stages of life. Brahmcharya Ashrama, Grihasta Ashram, Vanaprasta Ashram & Sanyasa Ashram.

While Brahmacharya ashrama deals with study life, learning etc, Grihasta Ashrama deals with enjoying with family & bringing up the kids. Vanaprasta ashrama is typically with the person becoming old and having enjoyed & seen enough sorrows or miseries in life. Sanyasa Ashrama is the last stage, when that person wants renounce the world. So, typically the last stage is the Sanyasa Ashrama stage. Everyone somewhere deep within the heart definitely believes in the quote, live life to the fullest. But, these days, in the name of spirituality, there are umpteen numbers of youngsters who are in sanyasa ashrama even before they reach grihasta ashrama stage. These youngsters might have gone through enough sufferings that they chose this path, I am debating on that. But are these youngsters living their life? Are they not being cowards when they chose last ashram of life or is it really that every one surely wants mukti/release? What life are they living? Deep within themselves will they be happy for choosing the path they have chosen?

I don’t want mukti for sure (at least at this stage in life). I don’t think I will soon reach that stage either. Why would I want release or mukti? To be released or to achieve mukti is it not looking forward for my own death? Why would I want to die? What good am I doing to my loved ones when I die? Won’t I be selfish when look forward for Mukti? Will I not put my loved ones in sheer pain & mental stress if I say I want to achieve mukti / release?

Everyone believes that mukti or release is not for body, but it is for soul. Now, without release to body, how soul can be released? Even if I blindly consider that it is for soul, I would still not like it… I want to take re-birth, I want to enjoy my life, I want to explore the world, I want to do everything in my next birth which remains unfulfilled in this birth.

After all, mukti or release is after death & who has really seen life after death? If no one has seen life after death, then no one has even seen true mukti or release. If this is not a proven theory, then why release your soul from your body? Why think of releasing the soul or body?

Will I still say the same some 30 years down the line? I am not sure. Will I start thinking of achieving mukti 30 years down the line, I am not sure of that either. All I know now is in the name of mukti many youngsters & middle aged people have started looking forward for their own death…