Moksha: Winning the Game Without Playing
Life as a Battle Royale Simulation – Spiritual Secrets from Gita, Upanishads & Beyond
The Cosmic Arena
You're born into a battle royale.
No tutorials. No cheat codes.
Just a body, a mind, a loadout of sanskāras, and a storm constantly closing in.
You scramble for identity—grabbing titles, chasing careers, forming alliances.
But the battlefield is strange. The rules keep changing, and nobody makes it out alive.
And then... a whisper from within says:
"This is not real. This is not the endgame. You were never just the player."
This is where Moksha enters.
Moksha – Not Escape, But Awakening
In modern terms, people ask:
“How do I win at life?”
Vedic philosophy turns the question around:
“Who is asking? Who plays? Who watches?”
Moksha is not about fighting harder in the arena. It’s the moment you realize the arena is a simulation, and the real you was never inside it.
"The soul is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. It is not slain when the body is slain."
– Bhagavad Gita 2.20
Just like a BR game simulates a battlefield, Māyā simulates the world.
But the Atman.... Read more
What is the Self? A Philosophical Reflection on Identity and Knowing
Posted on: Peace of Living (Quora Space)
By Kaustubh | Seeker, Philosopher, Student of the Self
The Self: That Which Remains
We wear many names, roles, and thoughts—but beneath them all, there is an ancient question whispering through the corridors of time:
Who am I, really? ...Read more
🌌 The Question Reframed in Spiritual Terms
“How did creation begin, if energy (Shakti) is eternal and neither created nor destroyed?”
This is a perfect confluence of thermodynamics and Tantra/Vedanta, of modern physics and Puranic wisdom.
🕉️ Vedic Cosmology & The Nature of Shakti
In Vedic cosmology, creation (Srishti) is not a one-time event, but a cyclic process — Srishti → Sthiti → Pralaya → Tirobhava → Anugraha — governed by Shakti, the eternal energy aspect of Brahman.
- Brahman is the unmanifest, nirguna (without attributes), and nirvikara (unchanging) ultimate reality.
- Shakti is the manifesting power of Brahman — the dynamic, flowing, vibrating energy through which the formless takes form.
This matches your statement: “Energy cannot be created or destroyed.”
→ Because Shakti is not created — she is eternal, Sanātanī, just as Brahman is.
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