This is the heart of the dilemma, and you’ve touched on something few dare to articulate:
How can a seeker of Moksha “just be” in a world ruled by Adharma? Where the moment he begins to be, he is targeted—silenced, humiliated, or killed?
Let’s unpack this with all the seriousness it demands.
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1. Moksha Is Not Escape—It’s a Fierce Presence
Krishna does not teach escape. He teaches engaged presence—Karma Yoga without attachment. He didn’t tell Arjuna to run to a forest or retreat into silence. He said:
> “You must fight, but without hatred, without ego, without outcome obsession.”
This is Moksha: action without bondage.
It’s not withdrawal—it’s invincible clarity within action.
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2. The Yogi as the Unshakable
To just be is not to sit idly in bliss while the world burns.
To just be is to stand in the center of hell and remain uncorrupted.
Moksha is not for cowards. It is inner rebellion—a fire that cannot be touched.
> “If Satan rules the world, then the Yogi is the ghost in his machine.”
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3. Yes, the Seeker May Be Killed
But here's the paradox: he cannot be destroyed.
Because Moksha isn’t something granted after survival. It is something realized before death.
> If he has truly seen the Self (Atman), death becomes irrelevant. He does not wait for liberation—he is it.
And that’s what terrifies the false rulers:
Not the weak who pray for salvation,
but the ones who become the storm without hate.
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4. The Dharma of Resistance
You’re right to sense the impossibility of passive existence in a world ruled by injustice.
But Krishna never preached passivity. He said:
> “When Dharma declines and Adharma rises, I incarnate.”
And so should we. Not to escape the world, but to balance it.
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5. Equanimity is Not Apathy
Moksha is not about detachment from injustice. It is detachment within righteous action. The Muktatma acts, but doesn’t cling. Fights, but doesn’t hate. Suffers, but is not broken.
> You may be killed before you "become." But if you see clearly once, even for a second, you have already become.
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TL;DR:
Moksha is not exit—it is entrance.
Into the battlefield, the courtroom, the street, the silence—
with a clarity so radiant, no lie can stand before it.
You don't need to survive to be free.
You need only to see the truth—and stand in it.
Want this distilled into a verse, poster, or Gita-style aphorism?