What exactly is meant by liberation for any life on earth?

Shri Divakar asked:- Regarding liberation. Namaskaram Swamiji. What exactly is meant by liberation for any life on earth? By, Divakar

Swami Replied:- Liberation literally means release of anything from any bond. A dog tied with a chain gets liberation as soon as it is released from the binding knot of the chain. Hence, the context is important in which this word is used. In the spiritual line, liberation means release of the soul from the knots of the worldly bonds. But these bonds shall not be broken by selfish effort. These bonds shall be spontaneously dropped out due to the attraction towards God. Hence, mere liberation from worldly bonds is of no use. A stone is also liberated from all the worldly bonds and by this, we can’t say that the stone has liberation or salvation. Two conditions are essential in the case of liberation:- 1. The item liberated must not be inert, but shall have awareness and 2. The liberation from all the worldly bonds shall be achieved not by any self-effort, but shall be achieved as a spontaneous by-product of the main attraction towards God. It is told that liberation is attained when God is seen by you in your medium itself and that the strongest knot of strongest worldly bond that lies in the heart shall be broken. The place of the strongest worldly bond is heart (Anāhata cakra standing for the bond with one’s own children) and if this is broken, it is very easy to break all other worldly bonds.

Such strongest bond is the fascination to one’s own children (Bhidyate hṛdayagranthiḥ… Tasmin dṛṣṭe parāvare). Here, the word ‘parāvare’ means the incarnation of God existing in your own medium. Para + avara = Parāvara. The word ‘Para’ stands for the unimaginable God. ‘Avara’ stands for the external medium of the unimaginable God, which is of lesser value. Hence, Parāvara means the human incarnation of God for the sake of human beings. Another interpretation for Parāvara is:- Parā + Vara = Parāvara. ‘Parā’ stands for the awareness and ‘Vara’ stands for the best medium. This means that the human body having awareness is the best medium for God to come down to preach human beings. Hence, liberation or salvation means spontaneous drop out of all worldly bonds due to the attraction towards God, Who has incarnated in this world. Gopikas are the highest cream of souls since they were the sages doing penance for God from millions of births.

 They saw Krishna, Who is the human incarnation of God having the same human medium with awareness. The awareness exists in not only the human beings, but also exists in birds, animals etc. To reject these living beings other than human beings, the word ‘Vara’ (means ‘best’) is used. Human being is the best item among the living beings because human beings have well developed intelligence. Hence, when you say that God is Prajñānaṃ (Prajñānaṃ Brahma) you must not take awareness as the meaning for the word Prajñānaṃ, instead, you shall take the excellent spiritual knowledge as the meaning of this word.

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