Divine Freedom....

Likes and dislikes, aversion and craving, love and hate- these are emotions that can reach the bosom of one, only when one has a sense of attachment with a particular object or objects around him.


The Liberated-one has freed himself from all his sense of attachment, and therefore, he cannot feel any aversion for the world-of-objects, nor can he ever hanker after sense-satisfactions.


With a mind detached from all direct involvements, he lives through life meeting with all that comes to him unasked in Divine Freedom. He neither enjoys the objects that have come to him, nor does he crave for objects that have not reached him. He meets life directly, head on, accepting nothing, avoiding nothing! His tranquillity is never disturbed.


- H.H. Swami Chinmayananda
(excerpts from the commentary of Astavakra Gita)


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