Sole Reality

 Kama, Artha, Dharma, Moksha are the four purusharthas of human life. Kama is the pursuit of happiness or pleasure and fulfilment in the present. Artha is the pursuit and accumulation of wealth and resources to ensure happiness and contentment for the rest of one’s life. Dharma is the performance of meritorious virtuous deeds for the accumulation of spiritual merit that will ensure happiness, peace and contentment in the afterlife and future births. Moksha is the transcendence of the struggle to acquire happiness, peace and contentment in the external objective world of objects and experiences, after gaining enlightenment and self-realisation, which enables one to discern that the happiness, joy, peace, contentment, fulfilment and love that we seek outside is actually within us. It is our own happiness and peace that we seek outside in limited objects and experiences. We are the imperishable source of our own inexhaustible bliss, peace and fulfilment. Ananda is our real nature. We ...