You are absolutely right. If the Divine wanted Nirvana then there would have been no world at all. The real meaning of Moksha was freedom from ignorance and with it freedom from the sense of a limited, finite being. It means knowing one’s soul and with it recovering the purpose of our life. It means knowing the Divine Presence within and living to fulfil His Will in us. In the fulfilment of the Divine Will and our true purpose lies also the key to our progress, our utmost happiness and peace as well as our own highest fulfilment. This was the original sense of Moksha, to lead a true life, a higher, diviner life, a fulfilled life lived in a state of inner freedom and joy rather than as a slave subject to outside forces and circumstances. It is only later with the coming of Mayavad and Buddhist doctrines that moksha became synonymous with escape from the cycle of rebirth. But this is a misreading which Sri Krishna and Sri Aurobindo refute in strong words. Sri Aurobindo goes one step further and places before man the ideal of Divine Life, a divinely fulfilled life transformed from the limited human to the divinely superhuman. knowing the Divine Presence within and living to fulfil His Will in us. In the fulfilment of the Divine Will and our true purpose lies also the key to our progress, our utmost happiness and peace as well as our own highest fulfilment. This was the original sense of Moksha, to lead a true life, a higher, diviner life, a fulfilled life lived in a state of inner freedom and joy rather than as a slave subject to outside forces and circumstances. It is only later with the coming of Mayavad and Buddhist doctrines that moksha became synonymous with escape from the cycle of rebirth. But this is a misreading which Sri Krishna and Sri Aurobindo refute in strong words. Sri Aurobindo goes one step further and places before man the ideal of Divine Life, a divinely fulfilled life transformed from the limited human to the divinely superhuman.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
