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Namah The yearning for freedom

it seemed sometimes to offer nothing but I feel that once freedom starts to settle inside
restriction. At a baser level, its senseless and as soon as the aspiration expands for
chattering would also continue non-stop. the total experience, the complete solution
How to be free of this? I noticed also how the is not just possible but inevitable. At least
mind would often conveniently give sanction this is my impression. Time is the variable
to the vital’s caprices. As I became more and in the vast scheme of things is perhaps
conscious of all these patterns, I began to insignificant even if it takes more than one
experience and understand the way Sri lifetime to reach fruition. However, I believe
Aurobindo so succinctly compartmentalised that if it is written in one’s agenda, there is
the various parts of our nature that are no reason why the task cannot be concluded
so interconnected and have such a vested in a single life.
interest in one another.
Soul and nature
Frequently I experience an imbalance of
freedom over the being as a whole. It is not So the whole being yearns for freedom. The
evenly distributed. Often I might feel liberated soul knows it and wants to share it; nature on
inside but hampered on a physical level. The the other hand has its own ideas and rather
body consciousness needs to be saturated by wants to appropriate it. The nature needs to
the inner light. I have chosen an integral path be educated by the soul before she can be
and it is in that context that progress must be set free. She moves forward with blinkered
made. The body can never get left behind. eyes. The aim throughout is perfection, but
If I identify with the friction, it immediately many ignorant interpretations are present
claws the consciousness downwards and it in our surface nature. The object is always
strangles the rest of the being. The contact to align oneself as closely as possible to the
with the body can be, and indeed should divine consciousness, the only failsafe
be, loving but disinterestedness must be means of achieving freedom. Sincerity is
present too. This kind of detachment and the framework which holds it all together.
later equality must be the way forward to To undertake this work, I find that I have
total liberation. two tasks. I need to maintain remembrance
as a ceaseless condition: this is the essential
It’s almost as if, as soon as it doesn’t matter, backdrop. I have found the journey to freedom
that the freedom descends. And perhaps I starts from here. Meanwhile I strive to work
mean freedom in a total manner, with the consciously at freeing my being from these
body rising up too in the integral way. I say cramping structures inside. This is a more
‘perhaps’ because the realisation hasn’t come, specific and active process. But remembrance
just pre-emptive glimmerings of a complete provides the essential soil for the roots of
truth behind this absorbing riddle. Whatever freedom to get enriched and established. With
the case, the body, for me, is quite clearly a the inner work, on the other hand, one can
lonely pioneer and demonstrates to the other stretch out and expand. It is an accumulative
parts of my nature the necessity for true inner process, a true way for healthy living.
freedom. It is almost as if the body gives the
rest of the nature no choice! When one is in the process of growth, the

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