Liberation is not escapism. Escapism is running away from dharma or duty. It is natural detachment , without effort, while performing dharma with detachment like the son or a flowing river. No object on earth can make us happy or sad. We become perpetually self-sufficient.
The nature our soul is liberation. It takes the subtle body through many births and deaths, but never get contaminated. It is soul. Every thought, word and action brings attachment. Every meeting is with expectation. Every design is expected to bring result. Results are bond to happen. That’s the nature of action. Attachment to result and expectation causes bondage. We suffer. The moment we shift from expectation to pure action, we become liberated.
All attachments, relationships and expectations are bondage. The guru can be bondage. Disciples can be bondage. Body mind and intellect are bondage. Thus, life is full of visible and unseen bondages. This makes liberation even more difficult.
The best way to transcend bondage is through higher awareness. It is like graduating to higher class in school. Awareness levels keep changing; we became aware of things we ware not aware of earlier. Clarity improves and dependency reduces. Habits change. When a habit is replaced with deep, pregnant silence of spirituality, we are liberated. Need for action is formed out samskaras.
When samskaras reduce, actions reduce, too. But we fill the space with more samskaras. We are afraid to die. The birth-death cycle has become our habit because of repetition over lifetimes. Anything can blind us and keep us away from liberation. Our identification such as name, shape, nationality, religion and everything else make death painful. Even a mirror can prevent a smooth exit. A mirror re-establishes our physical image into our psyche so much that when the soul departs the body, it feels lost. It stays on. It refuses to transcend. So if you look deeply, you can see that many things hinder our progress. In that situation still you are able to translate your knowledge into wisdom and experience wisdom, which nullifies the push of samskaras, then life become easier-transit become effortless.
Nothing is either good or bad. There are no dos and don’ts. These are all created by our mind. What is right for us is the exhaustion of our karmas, whatever it takes. Whatever is right for the soul is to stay as the soul, without the baggage of karmas and the push of many rebirths. Right and wrong are relative and they also shift modes time after time. Nothing is permanent in terrestrial existence. If we can fully understand fundamental truth, we are relatively better off.
Liberation needs serious practice. We cannot suppress karmas and get there. We have to grow with awareness and detach because we do not need it.
When the world was speaking about “have” and “have-nots”, India always had a third segment –the truly liberated masters who had everything but wanted nothing. They lived in plenty with no need of any terrestrial object. Terrestrial love is temporary and often conditional. Soul is liberated and unconditional. That is the shift that we are taking about here: the shift from our limited mind to unlimited soul.
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