One can say my desire to be free is stronger than my
attachment to my personal identity, so show me I am free.
Is the desire to be free
enough of a qualification to gain self-knowledge that stays and blesses?
No ... the desire to be free must be there along with a
certain degree of emotional maturity. You simply can’t bypass emotional
maturity and gain self-knowledge. Without the requisite emotional maturity you
may at the most gain insight into the nature of the self, but that insight will
not develop into a lasting knowledge that does away with one’s belief in one’s
identity as an individual separate from everything – that insight will not stay
to bless with freedom.
Emotional maturity has its own timing. It does not come one
day too soon!! You can't hurry it. You can't be brutal as a teacher, and try to force a person into seeing their freedom. Emotional maturity comes with living one’s life with a certain
understanding and attitudes born of that vision.
A study of traditional Vedanta can equip you with that
vision. To say that you don’t need to study is not true. Study of traditional
Vedanta under a master who has discovered freedom, who is competent and responsible in teaching can confer on you the freedom you
seek – first you gain the understanding
that fructifies into certain attitudes that you begin to live your life with –
and that brings in its wake maturity and with maturity you are ready for self
discovery – a discovery that will fulfil every aspiration you ever had.
Om Tat Sat
