12th Manthram:
andham thamaha pravisanthi
ye:sambhu:thimupa:sathe: |
thatho: bhu:ya iva the: thamo
ya u sambhu:thya:m ratha:ha ||
If karma and jnana lead to bhakthi, upasana leads to moksha. This is the essence we have grasped so far. Then, the next important question is: What is moksha? Moksha means 'leaving out' or 'giving up', manthras 12, 13 and 14 explain how should this 'giving up' be.
'Bhakthi' means 'wealth' or 'rich'. In the worldly sense, some people desire another kind of wealth which is sambhuthi. This means the 'wealth of God'. The people who desire sambhuthi want liberation from their ephemeral body so that they can reach God. This manthram states that those who want to get rid of this body for the sake of mere ridding it and those who want to shun this body to reach God - both fail to attain the real moksha and go to Hell. Thus, the purport of this manthram sounds strange and confuses us. The confusion will be cleared by the successive manthras.