Question: Babaji, I would like to know what happens after we die. When we say our aim after death is to attain moksha. What exactly does it mean? Can you ever get out of the cycle of birth and how can we stop our existence of rebirth?

Babaji:

I can give you some clues about this. Actually you see based on your minds habits only this world would appear to you. Whatever thought processes the mind is habitual culturally so the mind would visualize this one. When death happens, when the brain totally dies then the brain would not be able to reflect anything. The mind gets kicked off temporarily but its own habits, its acquired habits, are all there. Intensity of thoughts based on that it would assume next birth. That's what usually happens. So the sadhana starts. You need to cleanse the mind, make the mind as non-violent as possible.  Non-violent means, clear all its thought processes that it would have acquired since time immemorial.  Maybe since so many lives all are sitting in that like a tape recorder everything.

So this type of meditation and other exercises prescribing religion like repetition of mantra or any such thing are all important. The idea is to control the mind and make it as non-violent. The day when the mind totally gets cleansed of all these thoughts, habits and there is nothing else there, it becomes pure consciousness. It gets absorbed into the Self and that time when death occurs, like for a Yogi's body if death occurs to the physical body there would not be any such imagination or desires. The Yogi's mind would not have any cravings, picturizing effects. The ordinary minds would be constantly picturizing. It cannot keep quiet even for a moment. So if it is clear totally so then rebirth does not happen. You simply exist as a Supreme Consciousness. That is supreme peace also. That is the recommended goal that's what moksha means. You do not have to be reborn and die in physical body. You simple exist in yourself. That is what is called liberation, nirvana, moksha all these things. And it is possible for everyone to achieve.