A yogi who had also attained the goal of yoga jivanmukthi – Jnaneswara also terms in his Anubhavamrita, yogic techniques as useless as the moon in day time when compared with mokshya. J. krishnamurti in his commentaries on living (he is supposes to have reached the goal of yoga) ventures to notify that both those individuals who practice yoga and those who are pursuing to acquire worldly comforts do not differ much from each other. They are both greedy and nature ambitions. According to him the desire to free oneself from the cycle of birth and death is also a form of desire like other desires for worldly enjoyments.
Yet another version from Maitreyi upanisha teaches us that the pleasure one gets through the pursuit of mukti is not real for the simple reason that it is not an experience of the state of emancipation.
But the techniques do help those who have not yet seen the light of mokskya. There is much weight in the argument that mukti is not a state. Which can be acquired by following the instructions of others. It is without doubt that a liberated person cannot make others liberated through his sermons. One can learn the process to proceed but he/she has to himself/herself attain state of awareness to understand oneself and the world. This naturally, needs a special effort to train mind the ability to look at anything as it is.
We may go through scriptures and come to know of the various processes t go ahead and hear sermons from sages and saints, thus learning intellectually about the state of mukti, but the bridge between our steps and the state of mukti remains.
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