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Freedom is one among the most ancient and the most difficult aspirations of Humanity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/self-determination#p2</ref> The path of freedom follows purification of instruments, surrendering to the divine, liberation of the soul and transformation of the entire being.
Purification is throwing away of limiting , binding, obscuring imperfections and confusions of our outer being: one must purify the physical, vital and the mental instruments from desire, attachment, passion, ignorance and ego sense <ref>http://incarnateword.in /cwsa/24/the-liberation-of-the-spirit#p1</ref> not by forceful suppression or rejection but conscious detachment and developing equalitysense. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/food #p1</ref> Each time we attempt to purify the outer nature, we allow the inner being to reveal more of itself, to become free and open to the higher consciousness above. <ref>http:// incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-psychic-and-spiritual-realisations#p15</ref>
As long as one is not free from ego sense, there can be no real freedom, <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-liberation-of-the-spirit#p5</ref> for ego by its nature is a smallness of being that brings contraction of consciousness, limitation of knowledge, disabling ignorance, diminution of power, failure of sympathy and love and fragmentation of delight o of being that brings pain and sorrow. The ego must either disappear in impersonality or fuse into a larger I: the supreme self. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego #p2</ref>
The only way of being truly free is to surrender to the divine entireDivine entirely, without reservation, because then all that binds us, ties us down, chains us, falls away naturally and one can also be free from personal ego. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/10-february-1951#p8</ref> True surrender is total giving with all the delight of the giving; there is no sense of sacrifice in it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/4-august-1929#p3</ref> First, one must give up all that belongs to the ignorant lower movements of the ordinary man, especially the desires that one clings onto <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/4-august-1929#p5</ref> and develop an absolute equality of the mind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/self-surrender- in-works-the-way-of-the-gita#p29</ref> One must choose and will to aspire constantly for light.
The sign of freedom from attachment is that one has no craving and can do without things without feeling anything for that or disappointment at their loss or absence or hankering or wish to have them. <ref>http://incarnateword.in /cwsa/31/desire#p13</ref>
There seems to be a dual being in us; purusha (soul) and prakriti (nature). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-divine-shakti#p2</ref> Liberation of the soul is when the Purusha becomes free from the domination of Prakriti, transcending the modes of prakriti. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-soul-and-its-liberation#p13</ref> One should stand back from the mind, vital and the body & their activities to enter into silence, it is then possible to become detached and a disinterested witness which eventually leads to realization of one’s inner being as the silent impersonal self, the witness purusha. The purusha has to become not only the witness but the knower and source, the master of all thought and action but has still to use the ordinary instrumentation of mind, life and body. A certain mastery can indeed be achieved, but mastery is not transformation; the change made by it cannot be sufficient to be integral: for that it is essential to get back, beyond mind-being, life-being, body-being, still more deeply inward to the psychic entity inmost and profoundest within us—or else to open to the superconscient highest domains. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-triple- transformation#p19</ref> Transformation occurs when the consciousness moves upward, ascending through many higher planes and brings down the higher consciousness through descent. <ref>http:// incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-teachings-of-some-modern-indian-yogis#p3</ref> Then one is eternally free, incessantly life begins afresh, then the past no longer cleaves to us. There will be a constant experience of the whole universe actually disappearing at every instant and being at every instant newly created! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/true-humility- supramental-plasticity-spiritual-rebirth#p3</ref>
The whole world yearns after freedom <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/30-january- 1957#p1</ref> but the path of freedom is not an easy one, for one has to outgrow the inherent limitations of the outer nature <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-psychic-being- and-its-role-in-sadhana#p25</ref> and challenges ingrained in the material world. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/civilisation-and-barbarism#p2</ref>