Square 6: Delusion (Moha) – Navigating Attachment and Clarity

Square six on your Leela journey is Moha, meaning "delusion" or "attachment." Within the foundational Root Chakra (Muladhara), Moha symbolizes deep emotional attachments—those powerful bonds that cloud your judgment, influencing how you perceive yourself, others, and the world around you.

What is Moha?

In Sanskrit, Moha signifies a state of deep emotional attachment, confusion, or delusion. It describes how we become so deeply attached—whether to relationships, possessions, status, or beliefs—that we lose clarity and objectivity, becoming blind to the true nature of reality.

In the Leela game, Moha challenges you to acknowledge how attachment and delusion may be guiding your choices, emotions, and actions, often unconsciously.

Symbolism of Moha in Leela

Landing on Moha invites you to:

Recognize Attachments: Identify emotional bonds or dependencies that might be limiting your clarity or freedom.
Understand Delusion: Reflect on the illusions created by emotional attachment, realizing how they distort reality.
Cultivate Detachment: Practice loving detachment—enjoying relationships and experiences without losing your inner balance or objectivity.

Moha urges you to develop discernment, freeing yourself from unhealthy emotional bindings that obscure the path of spiritual growth.

Key Insights from Moha

Reflecting on delusion can illuminate powerful truths:

Attachment and Suffering: Strong attachments often create suffering, especially when circumstances inevitably change.
Clarity and Freedom: True freedom arises from healthy detachment—experiencing life fully without becoming enslaved by it.
Compassionate Detachment: Healthy detachment doesn't mean avoiding relationships or feelings—it means enjoying them without becoming defined by them.

Reflective Exercise: Embracing Healthy Detachment

Try this mindful exercise to explore your attachments gently:

Sit quietly, close your eyes, and breathe deeply.
Visualize something or someone you're strongly attached to—perhaps a relationship, possession, or status.
Observe your emotional response without judgment: notice if there's fear, insecurity, possessiveness, or anxiety.
Now, imagine releasing your grip gently, saying internally:

"I release my attachment. I choose freedom, clarity, and peace."
Feel the sense of lightness and openness that arises with healthy detachment.

Journal Prompt for Delusion (Moha):

What attachments currently influence your happiness or peace of mind?
In what ways do these attachments distort your perception of reality?
How can you practice compassionate detachment—loving without clinging?

Moving Forward in the Game

Navigating the challenge of Moha is essential on your path toward spiritual growth. Learning to live with compassionate detachment prepares you to face other emotional challenges on your journey—such as conceit (Mada), which you'll encounter in the next square.

Square Navigation

Current Position

Current Square: 6 - Delusion (Moha)
Chakra: Muladhara (Root Chakra)
Previous: Square 5: Physical Plane (Bhu-Loka)
Next: Square 7: Conceit (Mada)

Muladhara Chakra Squares

Progress Through the Game

Current Position: Square 6 of 72
Current Chakra: Muladhara (1 of 8)
Chakra Progress: 6/9 Squares

Roll the dice once more, feeling lighter and clearer with each step.

Namaste.