Life is full of tribulations and miseries. We are not yet able to shield ourselves from sufferings. The efforts to achieve a state of happiness are too little to serve the purspose. The wealth we accumulate always falls short of our requirements. Even religions fail to protect us. A time comes in this life when everything fails and we succumb to our miseries and sufferings. No knowledge and wisdom comes for our rescue. We feel that we are entrapped into this cycle of life and death. This reality contradicts our belief in the pursuits of Kama, Arth and Dharm. Our hope in these pursuits shatters. Then we begin to feel a different kind of reality. We begin to recall our experience of happiness‚ and ‚ bliss. We recall how we experience them at one point of time and relapse to‚ worldly miseries and sufferings on the next. We wish to break this vicious circle of life and death, happiness and sufferings. Nobody knows‚ exactly the way out. However, we are pursuing this unknown path. This is the fourth pursuit of life or the pursuit for Moksh, Absolute freedom, Salvation.

There are many points of view on this pursuit. Many among us say that the way out is through the pursuit‚ of religions and realisation of their tenets resulting into bliss, that we call the beginning of the‚ essence of religion or Dharm. They say that when we begin to realise the bliss, the fetters break itself, and we become free from the fear of destruction. Then we do not feel the miseries and sufferings‚ even if they are there. Miseries of life will be there, but we will brave them not‚ to become miserable. Suffering will be there, but we will cease to feel its pangs. Its a great idea to face them. This state of mind they call Moksh realised in this life itself. Some of the religious leaders say not only this, but also tell us about no return into this life-cycle of happiness and miseries, life and death again, after we die. We become free never to be entrapped in this cycle again. This they call Moksh.

The second major point of view is that this is only a state of mind. It can also be achieved without religion. Take an example‚ A soldier faces the bullets on his chest without the fear of sufferings and dieing. He knows only to fight. Nothing else. This point of view is even justified in Dharm which tells us‚ about realisation of the bliss. Sanatan Dharm ( The Religion Eternal) has already included this view. Lord Krishna, the bliss and Moksh personified, tells‚ a confused Arjun to quit all the religions and go directly to him. Arjun was confused about the multiplicity of religions and had wanted to know which is the best way. He was told in the beginning that all the religions go towards him and nowhere else. Then Arjuna wanted to know the shortest route to follow. He was forbidden to do that. Following the other's religion is dreadful for the individual, he was told. However, Arjun's confusion remained. So, he was told to quit all the religions and go directly to him.