Moha

Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 18

THIS IS MY FINAL WORD: These actions—sacrifice, charity, austerity—must be performed, but with complete abandonment of attachment and all expectation of results. This is My highest teaching.

Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 2

The mind that dwells on sense objects spirals from attachment to desire to anger—this is the chain that binds the soul.

Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 4

Once you know this, delusion ends permanently—you will see all beings existing within your own Self and within the Divine.

Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 5, Chapters 7-14

King Bharata renounced his kingdom but became attached to an orphaned deer, causing rebirth as a deer. In his final birth, he pretended to be dull to avoid worldly entanglements. When robbers tried to sacrifice him, goddess Kali emerged and destroyed them.

Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 6, Chapters 1-3

Ajamila, a fallen brahmin who lived 88 years of sinful life, called out to his son named Narayana at death. This inadvertent chanting of the Lord's name summoned Vishnu's messengers who rescued him from Yamaraja's servants.

Janaka & Ashtavakra

Seeing the world as a mirage does not lead to indifference but to effortless engagement without delusion or desperate clinging.

Uddhava & Krishna

The qualities of a true devotee—compassion, freedom from envy, equal vision, non-attachment—arise naturally through sincere devotion. They cannot be manufactured through effort alone but blossom through grace when the heart is turned toward the Divine.