LIBERATION DURING EXISTENCE OF BODY

The essential nature of bondage is nothing other than desire, and its elimination is known as liberation. It is simply by not being attached to changing material things that the everlasting joy of attainment is reached. Every material aspect of life is transient. Even material body with which one tends to identify oneself, does not belong to self.

Lord Krishna has elaborated material body quite different from the knower of material body.

Assuming one self to the owner of body, the self soul identifies with mind and undergoes the ordeal of doer ship.
When realization of material body and its knower, material nature dawns upon self soul, it attains liberation. Liberation has not to come from outside, it is within. Simply by realizing that we are the very small eternal consciousness which is not perceptible to senses, mind and intellect as these elements are illuminated by it, so this divine is our real self.


khetrakhetrgyorevamatram gyanchakshusha
bhutparkritimoksham ch ye viduryanti te param (13.34)

Those who thus perceive with the eyes of wisdom the difference between the material body, khetra and knower of material body, khetragya and the phenomenon of liberation from the Parkriti with its evolutes, reach the ultimate destination.

No one can be compared to the great-souled person whose mind is free from desire even in disappointment, and who has found satisfaction in self-knowledge.


The realization of self, its inscrutable power of illusion, its evolutes and liberation by detachment from them, leads one to the Supreme Self within life time in an embodiment. Realization can be made. Lord Krishna in chapter 13 has elaborated the body, its components, making it clear that it is made of five basic elements and the embodiment is to undergo all the fruits it has been destined. As soon as the fruits in form of happiness, distress and other opposites exhaust, this body dies but the self soul remains to transmigrate till it realizes itself.


Lord has also made discourse about what is knowledge and what is ignorance. What is the nature and how self soul gets involved with it. With identification with three qualities of nature, the self soul undergoes distress and experiences happiness as well. These qualities and attachment with them is further cause of fresh incarnation.
Rare indeed is the lucky man whose observation of the world's behavior has led to the extinction of his thirst for living, thirst for pleasure and thirst for knowledge.
If one detaches itself from them, it stands liberated in this life itself.
By knowing these qualities and how to detach one from them is very easy.
Our identification with fake and transitory embodiment is the impediment which has to be done away as soon as possible.

Liberation is at a second’s distance but this distance is to be traveled by your self under the able guidance of enlightened one. But even guide can tell the way. You have to travel yourself. Without moving yourself, you cannot realize yourself


When was that age or time of life in an embodiment when the dualism of extremes did not exist for men?

Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to something and is pleased about something or displeased about something.

Bondage is when the mind is tangled in one of the senses, and liberation is when the mind is not tangled in any of the senses.

Look on such things as friends, land, money, property, wife, and bequests as nothing but a dream or a magician's show lasting days, months, years.

The self soul has unnecessarily tangled itself with mind and presumes to be undergoing distress and happiness

Abandoning them, a person is happy to take whatever comes as it is, attains perfection.

When there is no "me" of body, that is liberation, and when there is "me" there is bondage. Self soul is always peaceful even in most drastic circumstances. See it when you find such situation
Desires are material world and detachment is liberation. Establishing yourself in firm dispassion, be free of passion and happy.
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At peace, having shed all desires within, and realizing that nothing exists here but the Lord, the Creator of all things, one is no longer attached to anything.

Realizing that misfortune and fortune come in their own time from fortune, one is contented, one's senses under control, and does not like or dislike.

Sometimes one experiences distress because of one's body, sometimes because of one's speech, and sometimes because of one's mind. Abandoning all of these, I live as I please in the goal of human life.