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be aware always of what it is doing: living, will. In order to have and to be aware of its
moving, acting; the body must be doing all own will the body must be freed from its
that consciously, almost voluntarily: there alien imposition and as soon as it gains its
shall be no involuntary movements. Each freedom, it will know itself, learn itself, learn
physical gesture must know itself by feeling its own movements. It will gradually shred
itself in the act. It is not that the mind should off all the wrong and distorted movements
know, the mind can have only a memory, which form its present habits. We shall find
but that the limb itself has to pursue its that in itself the body is a sane entity and it
function knowingly, in full awareness. At is not in need of many things that have been
the beginning there is inevitably a mixture suggested to it and instilled into it by forces
of mental knowing but that is to be cleaned that are outside it, almost foreign to it, the
out and overpassed. One is conscious, can mental and the vital forces. The liberation
be conscious only through consciousness; will bring to it automatically the awareness
consciousness is born through consciousness. of its own self, it will become, that is to say,
It manifests, it grows through incubation, conscious of itself and this consciousness
through self-centration. Energy energises will bring with it a pure and fresh energy
itself, as the Upanishad says, tapas taptvaa. which is that of its true self. As in the case
Energy is consciousness in movement and in of a subject nation the very fact of liberation
moving it expresses itself, embodies itself. A brings to it the energy of self-consciousness
muscle, for example, when moving, awakes and an exhilarating delight in the expression
to its own activity, the awakening is not of the newfound selfhood, even as also in the
confined to itself, but it extends gradually, case of the individual human being when
extends to all its constituent cells and even he is freed from serfdom and slavery and
to contiguous cells. The process in this way bondages, he attains, realises the dignity of
permeates the whole body and the entire self-consciousness and self-power, even so
material content of the body is filled with the material body too becomes illumined
consciousness and with its radiant energy. with its freedom and rejoices in its power
and energy to express its own truth. The first
There is however a basic preliminary necessity, effect of freedom after a long subjugation
a preparatory condition: the first essential is likely to be a spell of erraticism, but that
condition under which the body can be is sure to die away if there is a corrective
conscious of itself is its freedom, its absolute central will.
freedom. The body must be liberated
wholly and entirely, it must feel its perfect The body-movements in the animal are
freedom. As at present it is a slave: it never more authentic and truthful for they
knows its own will, it is always under the are not subsidised and suborned by the
orders of either the vital or the mind or both. vital and mental injunctions, and they are
Under the control of this dual masters — more ordered and controlled, not subject to
a cruel diarchy — the body has lost all its idiosyncrasies that sway the human character.
independent movements. The activities, They are more free and more natural: the
almost all, of the present body are not really same essential freedom and authenticity and
its own, they are expressions of an imposed purity shall belong to the body natural of the
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