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Mencapai Moksha – Kebebasan dari Karma

Karma, seperti gravitasi, adalah hukum yang berlaku pada Anda dan saya. Karma dapat berarti banyak hal, tetapi gagasan dasarnya adalah bahwa kita memiliki perbuatan, dan pahala untuk perbuatan baik dan hukuman untuk perbuatan jahat melekat pada jiwa kita. Jika perbuatan kita tidak sepenuhnya baik, maka ada pembayaran yang dituntut dari kita, dan jika pembayaran itu tidak dilakukan, kita akan terbelenggu.

Kita semua secara naluriah merasakan hal ini dalam beberapa cara. Dan dengan pengetahuan dan kebijaksanaan kita, kita telah menemukan banyak cara untuk menghadapi karma yang terakumulasi. Ada karma marga (cara kerja) di mana kita bekerja keras untuk memiliki pekerjaan yang baik. Ada mantra dan puja yang dibacakan. Ada festival dan mandi yang dicari, seperti Festival Kumbha Mela . Semua cara ini sulit dan kita tidak pernah memiliki jaminan bahwa usaha kita sudah cukup. Apakah motif di balik tindakan kita cukup baik? Apakah jumlah perbuatan yang cukup cukup baik? Kita tidak pernah yakin. Jadi, seperti gravitasi, kita hidup dalam karma, tidak dapat membebaskan diri dan mencapai Moksha. Inilah sebabnya sebelum melakukan puja orang mengatakan mantram Prartha Snana (atau Pratasana) (“Aku adalah orang berdosa. Aku adalah hasil dari dosa. Aku lahir dalam dosa. Jiwaku berada di bawah dosa. Aku adalah orang berdosa yang terburuk. Ya Tuhan yang memiliki mata yang indah, Selamatkan aku, ya Tuhan Pengorbanan.”)

Prajapati / Yahweh: Tuhan yang Menyediakan dalam Pengorbanan

Jadi, siapakah “Dewa Pengorbanan” ini? Dan bagaimana Dia bisa menyelamatkan kita dari Hukum Karma ini? Dalam teks-teks Weda paling awal, Tuhan yang merupakan Tuhan atas segala ciptaan – pencipta dan penguasa alam semesta – disebut Prajapati . Melalui Prajapati, segala sesuatu tercipta.

Sekitar waktu yang sama ketika Rg Veda ditulis, sekitar 1500 SM, serangkaian kitab suci lain juga sedang dicatat di bagian lain bumi – di tempat yang sekarang disebut Timur Tengah. Teks-teks Ibrani paling awal dari Veda Pusthakam (Alkitab) dikenal sebagai Taurat . Taurat dimulai dengan deklarasi bahwa ada satu Tuhan yang adalah Pencipta seluruh alam semesta. Dalam transliterasi dari bahasa Ibrani asli, Tuhan ini disebut Elohim atau Yahweh dan nama-nama ini dipertukarkan bolak-balik di seluruh teks-teks Ibrani ini. Jadi, seperti Prajapati dalam Rg Veda, Yahweh atau Elohim dalam Taurat adalah (dan) Tuhan atas semua Ciptaan.

Di awal Taurat, Yahweh juga menyatakan diri-Nya sebagai Tuhan yang “Memberikan” dalam sebuah pertemuan yang luar biasa dengan seorang Rsi yang disebut Abraham . Kita akan membahas pertemuan ini lebih detail nanti. Untuk saat ini, saya hanya ingin mencatat kemiripan Yahweh yang menyediakan (ditransliterasikan dari bahasa Ibrani menjadi Yahweh-yireh) dengan Prajapati dalam Rg Veda yang merupakan “pelindung atau penopang makhluk”.

Dengan cara apa Yahweh menyediakan? Kita telah mencatat perlunya kita terbebas dari Karma, dan kita telah mencatat mantra yang berdoa kepada “Tuhan Pengorbanan”. Rg Veda menguraikan hal ini dengan mengatakan:

“Pengorbanan sebenarnya adalah Prajapati sendiri” [Sansekerta: ‘Pajapatir yajnah’]

Sarjana bahasa Sansekerta H. Aguilar mengomentari hal ini dengan menerjemahkan dari Sathapatha Brahmana sebagai berikut:

Dan memang, tidak ada (korban) lain yang layak dikorbankan selain Prajapati itu, dan para dewa pun mulai mempersembahkannya. Oleh karena itu, sehubungan dengan hal inilah sang bijak berkata: ‘Para dewa mempersembahkan kurban dengan bantuan kurban itu sendiri – karena dengan bantuan kurban itu pula mereka mempersembahkannya (Prajapati), kurban itu – inilah tata cara pertama, karena hukum-hukum inilah yang pertama kali ditetapkan.’ H. Aguilar, Kurban dalam Rg Veda

Weda sejak awal menyatakan bahwa Prajapati (atau Yahweh) menyadari kebutuhan kita sehingga Dia menyediakan Karma kita melalui pengorbanan diri. Bagaimana Dia melakukannya, kita akan membahasnya di artikel-artikel selanjutnya saat kita berfokus pada pengorbanan Purusa-Prajapati dalam Purusasukta dalam Rg Weda, tetapi untuk saat ini, mari kita pikirkan betapa pentingnya hal ini. Svetasvataropanisad mengatakan

‘tidak ada cara lain untuk memasuki kehidupan kekal (Sansekerta: Nanyahpantha vidyate – ayanaya) Svetasvataropanisad 3:8

Jika Anda ingin terbebas dari Karma, jika Anda menginginkan Moksha atau pencerahan, maka sangatlah bijaksana untuk mengetahui apa yang telah diungkapkan tentang bagaimana dan mengapa Prajapati (atau Yahweh) menyediakan bagi kita melalui pengorbanan diri Yesus sehingga kita dapat terbebas dari karma dan mencapai surga. Dan Weda tidak membiarkan kita terombang-ambing. Dalam Rg Weda terdapat Purusasukta yang menggambarkan inkarnasi Prajapati dan pengorbanan yang Ia lakukan untuk kita. Klik di sini untuk melihat pengantar Purusasukta yang menggambarkan Purusa seperti Alkitab (Weda Pusthakam) yang menggambarkan Yeshu Satsang (Yesus dari Nazareth) dan pengorbanan-Nya untuk membawa Anda Moksha atau Mukti (keabadian). Kemudian kita melanjutkan membaca Weda-weda ini dan melihat bagaimana Rsi Ayub kuno dapat menyatakan kebebasannya dari Karma dan antisipasinya akan kehidupan abadi – ia telah dianugerahi Moksha.

26 thoughts on “Mencapai Moksha – Kebebasan dari Karma”

    1. Simply join rss say bharat mataji ki jai and achieve moksha.these stupid(so called Christian have sold their mothers souls etc .proud to be an Indian.proud to be a sanatani hindu.jai mata di.

    1. Hello Ratna
      Thank you for your comment! The only thing I would like to point out is that when you say ‘No one can know the truth’ you are – by that very statement – making an absolute claim to truth. It is rather ironic is it not. Perhaps no one can know the truth, but then again, perhaps we can. At least it does not hurt to look into what the ancient books of wisdom say

  1. It is clear from the name of your site itself “CONSIDER THE GOSPEL” and whatever you mean by “Vedic Cups” that you are in this for converting people from Hinduism to Christianity.

    I would request you missionary people to stop using Hindu terminology to fuel your evil soul-harvesting purposes. We all know about your new strategy to use inculturation to convert… Jesus sitting in a Yogic pose, etc. Don’t take us a fools.

    I want to ask you! Does your Bible not have anything original that you need words like Karma and Moksha to go on? Are your scriptures so weak in front of ours? Doesn’t that prove how artificial and plagiaristic you people are? If you love Jesus, why not stay in the Biblical context, and stop stealing concepts from Hindus? If you are a true Christian, stop abusing our philosophy and importing our concepts. Either try and study your own faith better, or simply accept Hinduism, and go on with it. Don’t try to create a breed between two fundamentally different religions. We all know what that leads to. Stop this sin, if you are true to Jesus.

    You have destroyed enough civilisations over the past 2000 years. You tried to do so here for the past 300 years… obviously you have miserably failed. So, lay off and don’t irritate us anymore. Stop trying to create divides in the Hindu populace of my country. It’s not a sin that even your Jesus can wipe out. Remember that.

    1. Roger
      It is clear that you misunderstand the Gospel. THe Gospel has never limited itself to one cultural form. This is why you see it lived and expressed in so many forms. You seem to have an issue with Christianity. Fine. Reject it. But the person and work of Jesus still stands and beckons. Look at the following article about Jesus. Is it Hindu or Christian? It is not Christian but it definitely is about Jesus and the Gospel. Everyone deserves to have the chance to understand the gospel and Jesus in a form that makes sense to him or her.

  2. Truth cannot be explained in words. The ultimate truth is beyond perception of senses which can only be realized within with the help of knowledge. If one is unable to know the truth then how the seers, sages and enlightened of the past eulogized the The Ultimate Truth which dwells within the god made temple of human body. The adjectival terminology to refer the ultimate truth are countless but in the essence the real name is one for which no script, language, and words are necessary to explain as it is beyond materialistic boundary. To know more about it you are requested to visit http://www.manavdharam.org where more detail have been given on the matter. Thanks. Keep smiling.

    1. Hi Jagdish
      Thanks for your insightful comment. You provide food for thought. The Gospel message would agree that Ultimate Truth goes deeper than words. The Gospel expresses Truth in the following way.

      In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

      Jesus (Yeshu Satsang) is proclaimed in the Gospel as this incarnation of Light. But to understand this we need to understand what our ‘darkness’ is and how this Light shines into the darkness. As we recognize the seriousness of our sin and karma then perhaps it provides motivation to understand this Light. And though words will never fully capture it, the Bible (Veda Pusthakam) contains a message that we can consider and decide if we will accept to free us from our sin and karma.

      1. Your statement In the beginning….from first verse of chapter 1 of St. John is the ultimate goal of human life. But the word is yet to be realized. The Word the scientific terminology of which is Primordial Vibration is present in every spec of the universe. The word had been expressed different holy sriptures as Sabda (Word) Brahma, Akchhar Brahma, Holy Name, Gaibi Aaawaj, Paak Nam etc. But realization of the word is different aspect of spirituality without which mere study of books and religion will land nowhere eventually.

        In the Genensis it has clearly been mentioned that “Lord god created man of the dust of ground and breath into his nostril the breath of life and man became a living soul”.

        Here, it is to be noted that it declared that man became a living soul with the breath of life not mere modification of flesh, bone and blood.

        The secret of the breath is still remained to be known practically which is only possible with initiation into knowledge of Soul which stands for Subject of Universal Life.

        Is it possible to know the Ultimate truth?

        Yes, For the living knowledge there must a Living Teacher to reveal the WORD to us.

        1. Hi Jagdish
          THank you for your thoughtful comment. Your understanding of the creation of man in Genesis is the same as mine. Man became ‘a living soul’ only when God breathed life into him, not when merely the constituent proteins were organized from the elements of the ground. So the secret of the breath must come from the Breather. As you say it must come from a Living Teacher. The claim of the gospel is that Jesus is very much alive. After he was crucified he rose physically from the dead and he offers this life to anyone who would want it. I have not yet put up any articles on this but certainly the possibility of this being true, being the key to unlocking Ultimate Truth should motivate us to consider seriously the gospel. Discussions like this do help to that end so I thank you for your comment

    1. Hi Jagdish
      And that is why everyone should have the opportunity to see and understand how the Bible (Veda Pusthakam) explains it.

  3. yea good job ,and I consider science is truth so hope we can get more scientific verification tooooooooooooooooooooo

    1. Hi Arjun
      Thanks for your comment. I do not disagree either. I think that if something is True it should align with other truth. Science is fundamentally about what we observe in the present and, even more particularly, about what is repeatable. Gravity is a good example of that. We can observe it in the present and it is repeatable. There is much that is verifiable about the Gospel. Are you asking more in terms of historical verification or scientific verifications of present-day processes?

  4. if we said i know that mean we do not know.if we said i do not know than you know something.ultimate truth is only we can feel that we can not tell to each other because that is wordless.if we like to find ultimate truth we have to find true path.thanks.

      1. Hello is it true that salvation/moksh is attained only thru Jesus. Then what about the great rishi muni’s or Hindu saints. Where are their souls?

        1. Hi Preet
          This is a great question. I guess for my part I approach spiritual laws pragmatically. I need a principle or law that can deal with my sin. As I explain in my article here, the only principle available where we know that sin is properly cleansed is the sacrifice of Jesus. I think we need to assess is sacrifice from the perspective of our need. Without judging where others stand I need to assess for myself if I want the gift of his sacrifice to cleanse my sins.

  5. Actually u people don’t know that there is no god in this world.iam trusting this god from my childhood done many poojas many fastings etc etc..recently I lost my 9months old child.actually wen I was carrying prayed a lot for a healthy child but that heart less god given me a baby with heart problem and have to b done with 2surgers but for having only one surgery.and even having many problems like growth delay,delayed milestones and brain problems etc..DAT god given these many problems to my child.nicely enjoyed her suffering and strugglings from top but still dissatisfied that’s y taken away my child from dis world.. I think now he satisfied.. Now he is Happy I believe..if he is a god y to send a child in did world and my life and y to put her in so many struggles and y to take away from did world?some people says wat ever vl happen vl happen for our good..is dis good?

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