"Today man aspires to attain mukti (liberation).
What is mukti? It is not the attainment of a heavenly
abode. Mukti means freedom from suffering. You need to have mukti at three levels - body, mind and soul. For
example, you are hungry. When you eat food, your
hunger is satiated. This is also a kind of mukti. You are
suffering from a disease. You take a medicine and get
cured. This is also mukti. All this is related to the body.
At the mental level, mukti means controlling the
vagaries of the mind. But true liberation lies in
understanding the principle of the Atma, which neither
comes nor goes. This is termed as Nirvana"
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
(Divine Discourse - 7.5.2001)
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