There is none bound, none freed, and none seeking to be free.
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Freedom
The concept of freedom represents release from constraints across spiritual traditions. Traditions converge on the idea of liberation from suffering. They diverge in their paths and understandings of achieving this state.
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The sages, united with pure reason, renounce the results of their actions and, liberated from the cycle of birth, they attain a state of bliss.
One cannot attain knowledge unless one is free from egotism.
Thus has this knowledge, more secret than all secrets, been declared to you by Me; reflect on it fully, and then do as you choose.
Having transcended these three qualities that arise with the body, the embodied soul is freed from birth, death, old age, and sorrow — and tastes immortality.
A person freed from these three gates of darkness, O son of Kunti, practises what is good for the soul and thereby reaches the supreme destination.
The divine endowment is considered to lead to liberation; the demoniac, to bondage. Do not grieve, O Pandava — you were born to divine endowment.
The sage whose senses, mind, and intellect are controlled, who is wholly set on liberation, from whom desire, fear, and anger have departed — that one is always and already free.
The Lord sustains the whole universe — the perishable and the imperishable, the manifest and the unmanifest, all held together. The soul, being without mastery, is bound by the sense of being an enjoyer. But knowing the divine Lord, one is freed from all bonds.
Immortality refers to the state of consciousness that transcends birth and death, cause and effect, and all limitations, a state of freedom, bliss, and self-existence, which is the consciousness of the Lord, the supreme Purusha, and Sachchidananda.
The person who accurately knows the names of the unmanifest, the qualities, and their pure operations, is well-versed in the truth about all distinctions, freed from the body, liberated from all qualities, and enjoys absolute happiness.
He is completely emancipated who does not covet others' belongings, never disregards anyone, transcends all dualities, and has a soul free from attachment.
One who regards all creatures as himself, is restrained, pure, and free from egoism, is considered to be emancipated from everything.
You are the one who gives eternal liberation as the result of righteous actions, without any desire for personal gain.
Those who do good deeds can break this bond and free themselves.
Renunciation of all attachments is the highest means to achieve liberation. It is through knowledge that we can achieve renunciation and become free.
Upon realizing the Atman, which is soundless, intangible, formless, imperishable, tasteless, eternal, and odorless, and realizing that which has no beginning or end, beyond the great and unchanging, one is liberated from the cycle of death.
When the soul completely frees itself from everything that goes against God's will and conforms to it, it is transformed in God through love.
One gets liberated either due to their karma or with the help of saints
One who is content with whatever they receive without effort, free from dualities, without envy, and balanced in success and failure, remains unbound even while acting.