When one gets beyond birth and death, it is getting beyond the bondage, i.e., attaining liberation. To get into the world and to be tied down to its ways and affairs as also desires and passions, is nothing short of rigorous imprisonment.
All of you really speaking are undergoing rigorous imprisonment; your vision however being very much limited, i.e., being of a gross type, you are not able to see it -- you are not conscious about it. Your atma* however is conscious of this imprisonment. It is your atma that wants to get out of that imprisonment. . . .
The body itself is like a jail. If one behaves according to the dictates of his Sadguru* one is able to get beyond this jail, and this getting out of it is called Mukti -- liberation. Death of the gross physical body is not mukti; because after that the Jiva* has to take another body according to his desires. To take to any desire is the crime for which one has to go to jail, i.e., get imprisoned in a body.
Upasni Maharaj in The Talks of Sadguru Upasani-Baba Maharaja, Volume II, Part B, pages 396 & 397
- atma = soul
* Sadguru = Perfect Master
* Jiva = to be in the state of experiencing existence
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