Moksha is the highest goal attainable for a jivatma and the Lord alone is capable of granting it. Moksha is described as a state transcending the tangible and intangible aspects of creation when the experience is one of ‘sat-chit-ananda’, constituting mere eternal consciousness of bliss. There is no trace of sorrow of worldly life, where there is constant change through birth, growth, decay and death.
In a discourse, Velukkudi Sri Krishnan drew attention to the fact that while the Lord holds sole proprietorship in the matter of granting moksha to the jivatma, the onus of eligibility for moksha rests with the jivatma.
Every jivatma is endowed with the freedom and independence to choose the option to get liberated. But this desire has to become an obsession so that he remains steadfast in realising this. The tension for the jivatma is to reject worldly aspirations with astuteness and yearn passionately for the bliss of permanence. Krishna captures this peculiar situation of every jivatma who is caught between the temporal and spiritual options.
Worldly concerns drive a jivatma towards many aspirations and he seeks God for help to attain them. Most of one’s lifetime is spent seeking God for fulfilment of these goals. The Lord fulfils the desires of the jivatma and also waits to grant liberation the moment a realised soul seeks Him with this goal in mind. He states that only very rarely a realised soul believing in the promise of eternal bliss yearns for it most resolutely. It may take many births for one to become such a jnani, says the Lord. It requires tremendous will power on the part of a jivatma to renounce the world and seek God for His sake alone.
This is the sadana for every jivatma.
