Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00266)

Mark,

"The price of Freedom is eternal vigilance."

I got this really neat idea about freedom from the book, STUDIES IN THE
BHAGAVAD GITA.


The author says that freedom is not found in the laws of nature that we
experience in a material sense and that we internalize. He says that
freedom comes from the view of wholeness, when we acquire a sense for all
of the laws of nature and then use our tact and choice to apply in
succession the appropriate laws.

Here is the exact quote, p. 53.

"Freedom does not lie with particular forces, but rather depends on the
utilizing of all experience for the development of the centre of
consciousness. It depends on the tact - the power of adjustment in putting
under contribution every function of Nature for the evolution of
self-conscious existence. Laws exist and are immutable so long as the
consciousness, working in their planes, is unable to learn the lessons
which the laws are intended to convey."