Answer: 1. Mukti or Moksha or liberation is to go out of the chain of birth and death. A liberated man will not take birth again. But, there are Nitya-Mukta-Purushas (i.e., the ever-free), who are born with the Avataras or the incarnations to assist in His mission.

2. Through intense and sincere spiritual practices, an aspirant can attain Moksha or Liberation. Of course, only spiritual practices will not be enough, the grace of the God is required for that.

3. Kama is desiring for anything.

4. It is possible; you may read the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna. No doubt it is very difficult. Actually, also it is very difficult even for the Sannyasins (monk) ! The more a person can achieve towards this, i.e., the more a person gives up his desires, the better for him.

Response to the Above: So to get Mukti, we need to pray to God and follow the Spiritual Practices. Could you please explain this in depth like what is the logic here between getting Mukti by following the Spiritual Practices and leaving Kama. What are the Spritual Practices? Kama mean that not to have desires. Could please suggest how to slowly remove all the desires from me. But I have a desire to have Mukti. I heard about God and I feel Him while I do Bhajans (Devotional songs), though I didn’t see Him physically. Sometimes when I become depressed, I think that He doesn’t exist.

Answer to the above Response: By doing the spiritual practices, the mind becomes purified. And when the mind becomes completely purified, the person becomes Mukta (liberated / free). As the dirt covers the mirror creating obstacle to see our face on it, similarly, these impurities that are in the mind, do not allow us to see / to know our Real Nature. Being completely purified, a person knows his Real Nature; and when he thus knows his Real Nature, he becomes free. The spiritual practices are: Japa (repetition of a mantra or a name of the aspirant’s Chosen Deity), Dhyana (meditation), prayer, discrimination, etc. The more the mind becomes purified through the spiritual practices, lesser will be the worldly desires in the mind. Thus the desires are to be removed. The desire for Mukti is not considered as a desire. When doubts come, please think assertively that the Saints, Rishis, Avataras had told that the God exists and they have realized God. And also the scriptures tell the same thing. These scriptures and the saints also show us the way to realize God. Hence, God exists. Only due to our ignorance and impurities, we cannot see Him. We wish you read the ‘Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna’, ‘Life of Swami Vivekananda’, ‘Lectures from Colombo to Almora’ – by Swami Vivekananda, and other spiritual literature. These books can be availed from the Sales Section of any our centres.

Response to the Above Reply: I am very much impressed after getting the answer to my question. Thanks for the good reply. I’ll start doing what you said. You have said that having desire to have Mukti is not a Desire. How is this? Also I am thinking that the married life will disturb the goal to get the Mukti, where the desires (good or bad) will be increased a lot because of the attachments. Could you please guide me the correct way regarding the marriage.

Answer to the above Response: Worldly desire is harmful for the spiritual life and it stands in the way of reaching the goal – realizing the Truth, or to say, Mukti, which is the goal of the human life. Desiring for Mukti itself is the goal of human life. This desire for Mukti is called Mumukshutvam. The more it is in a spiritual aspirant, the better it is for him to reach the goal. Hence, desiring for Mukti, for Bhakti, Jnana, for doing spiritual practices, etc. won’t be considered as desires. Regarding to marry or not, please think deeply and act accordingly. Please read the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda-Vedanta literatures as much as possible, including few books which were mentioned in the last e-mail-reply, and contemplate on those ideas. You will get the positive ideas from this.

Response to the Above Reply: While doing Japa, I find my mind is very much distracted. Is there any particular time to do Japa ?

Answer to the above Response: Please don’t worry about the distractions. Continue to do Japa, prayer, meditation and reading the holy books. “Slow but steady wins the race.” Don’t give up the regular practice. Anytime is Japa-time. In the beginning, it is good to have fixed time – in the morning, noon and evening. Once the practice becomes perfect, anytime is Japa-time.