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<center>Find your soul, unite with it, let it govern your life and you will be free. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/freedom#p7</ref></center>
=What is Freedom?=
=How to Cultivate Freedom?=
Freedom is one among the most ancient and the most difficult aspirations of Humanityhumanity. <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 equality sense.<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>
The challenges here can be grouped as External and Internal Challenges. External challenges are -
'''Opposition from Matter - '''
Life strives to enlarge and prolong itself and succeeds; but when it seeks utter wideness and immortality, it meets the iron obstruction of Matter and finds itself bound to narrowness and death. <ref>http://incarnateword.in /cwsa/21/the-knot-of-matter#p7</ref>
'''Pressure of the Social Mass-'''
There is continually a danger that the exaggerated pressure of the social mass by its heavy unenlightened mechanical weight may suppress or unduly discourage the free development of the individual spirit. For man in the individual can be more easily enlightened, conscious, open to clear influences; man in the mass is still obscure, half-conscious, ruled by universal forces that escape its mastery and its knowledge. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/standards-of-conduct-and-spiritual- freedom#p15</ref>
To choose without preference and execute without desire is the great difficulty at the very root of the development of true consciousness and self-control. Yet one must learn to act without any preference, free from all attractions and likings, taking one's stand solely on the Truth which guides.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/21- december-1950#p6</ref>
The physical is the slave of certain forces which create a habit and drive it through the mechanical force of the habit. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical- nature#p80</ref>
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