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Liberation

SWAMI BODHATMANANDA

The Meaning of Liberation problem, and another crops up.
We have to remove the root
Everyone wants to be free of
cause of all the problems. That
sorrow. Each one of us has our is called liberation. Otherwise
own specific sorrows and we
we will continue to have a series
seek to be free of that sorrow. of problems – the duùkha param-
Listening to a lecture in the air- parä. If the individual’s analysis
conditioned comfort of an
of life is based on a narrow
auditorium removes the sorrow vision, he will merely seek to
of discomfort – sitting on the
solve the immediate problem, or
ground, sweating in the heat problems within one life span.
and suffering innumerable Such a person does not think
insect bites. The availability of
about existence beyond this
a sound system removes the body and the present life.
speaker’s sorrow of having to
One has to understand the
shout. Freedom from sorrow is nature of bondage (bandhana)
generally understood as duùkha- clearly in order to attain libera-
nivåtti – getting rid of sorrow.
tion (mukti). Unless the disease
Getting rid of one sorrow is is diagnosed correctly, no
not enough. We try to fix one
doctor can give proper medica-
tion. Many people do sädhanä
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