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Moksha and Maya
Liberation is not a place; it does not exist in the heavens, the
earth or the spirit-world. Freedom has no space, no time, no
location; it can only exist in the now, in the present moment.
Moksha (liberation, freedom) is the state of non-ego, where the “me”
vanishes and one stands free from all desires, actions and
consequences in a total state of oneness.
We are bound to this material world through attachment, desire, and
the inability to see or experience the oneness of all life. Maya
(illusion) is both the psychological separation between ego and the
universe and the psychological filter that colors all of our
experience. Maya is our memories, conceptions, judgments, and biases
that present a distorted sense of reality. These impressions of past
experiences become superimposed or projected on current experiences
creating a false reality. Maya reinforces the ego, strengthens
attachment, and defines our individual “story” that defines who we
are and our relationship to the external world.
To achive moksha, maya must be cast off, anava (ego) must be
dissolved, and both our attachments to pleasure and our aversions to
discomfort must be severed. Moksha arises spontaneously when we
become completely absorbed in the sensation of an experience without
thought. This “taste” of total absorption is common yet fleeting.
Through the practice of yoga, we seek to create the tools to
consciously and willfully "pierce the veil" of maya and see the
transcendent nature of reality. These tools include selfless work
(karma yoga), self-dissolving love (bhakti yoga), absolute
discernment (jnana yoga), and meditative immersion (raja yoga).
The most fundamental tool yoga gives us to create moksha is
conscious awareness. Through the use of awareness we can slowly
begin to see our projections, desires, attachments and judgments for
what they are. Once these distorting factors become conscious, they
are able to dissolve and unblock the way to a direct experience of
reality. When we become liberated from the illusionary world of maya
we are able to be in yoga: the union of the inner self (Atman) with
the oneness of all life (Brahman).
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