What is Liberation

Poojya Swamiji gives the listener a fresh insight into the subject of liberation. When one is free, light and unaffected, it is liberation.

Liberation does not mean that one has to get liberated. Liberation is in feeling that the ‘I’ in me has been ever-liberated. One has to feel one’s own liberated nature. It is not to attain any particular state but to know what is already there.

Quoting a verse from Srimad Bhagavatam, Swamiji explains that terms like bondage and liberation are only in the realm of Gunas. But Gunas being illusory in nature, bondage and liberation are also illusory.

Verses chanted in the talk:

बद्धो मुक्त इति व्याख्या गुणतो मे न वस्तुत: ।
गुणस्य मायामूलत्वान्न मे मोक्षो न बन्धनम् ॥

Srimad Bhagavatam 11.11.1

PR 09 May 2013