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Our notion of freedom is likely to be tainted with excessive individualism of the human ego; <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-ascent-towards-supermind#p8</ref> for the ordinary mind, it is to do every stupidity what one likes and to live without restrictions <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/10-february-1951#p9</ref> in an isolated independence. We seek for it in our external conditions while it is within ourselves.
Freedom is not a license to follow one’s desires, passions or to be moved by impulses but to break free from these bondages that are habits, not the inner truth of our being, <ref>http:// incarnateword.in /cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p322</ref> but come from outer ignorant nature as subconscious habits; <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/9-june-1929 #p12</ref> Freedom is a state in which one is free from all attachment, all ignorance, all reactions and consequences.It is not only a freedom from all attachment, but a liberation from all bondage to the law of consequencesconsequence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/ cwm/04/5-march-1951#p11</ref>
Freedom is not about doing ‘what I want’ but realizing ‘who am I?’ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p32</ref> One must come out of the prison of the ego, the sense of separate personality. One must outgrow his mental separativensess, separativeness limitations of the being and unite consciously and totally with the Supreme. This identification with the Infinite by total surrender breaks the limits of the ego and eradicate the very existence of the ego by universalising oneself, even though the individualisation of the consciousness is preserved. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-178#p2</ref>
In its highest and ultimate sense, freedom is a state of being; it is self living in itself and determining its own energy what it shall be inwardly and eventually, by the growth of a divine spiritual power within determining too what it shall make of its external circumstances and environment; that is the largest and freest sense of self-determination. <ref>http:// incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-178#p2</ref>