What do you mean by the word 'liberation'?
The idea of liberation or freedom comes from the foundational concept that we are all currently living in some form of ‘suffering’. Whether this be physical suffering, emotional suffering or mental suffering or whether it be very minor suffering, mild suffering or major suffering - it is commonly agreed upon in most spiritual and religious traditions that our physical reality generally holds much pain & suffering with the reality of impermanence.
As we delve deeper into this concept of suffering i.e. to find the root causes, we are often led to an understanding that almost all suffering comes from a lack of purity, love, peace or understanding. For example, by not understanding the one-ness of all things and our own truly infinite & divine nature, many of us believe that we are just this physical body. As such, we spend our life performing actions that are based on intentions of excessive self cherishing e.g. actions based in attachment, greed, aversion, anger, ignorance and pride to name but a few.
This is a truly sad state of existence where our deepest desire is to bring happiness into our life but where our intentions and actions seem to lead us towards lower vibrational states and more suffering. And this is what is often referred to as being caught or ‘trapped’ in the karmic cycle of existence.
In many spiritual traditions, it is believed that a living being will continue to take rebirth until the soul has cleansed or purified all of its karmic debts. It is also believed that doing good actions (those that are based in love, kindness & compassion) help to accumulate good karmic merit and therefore these help the soul to ascend into higher and more harmonious vibrational states. In this way, we are all on our journey back to a state of infinite & divine purity.
If we continue this journey upwards, we reach a place of absolute purity of body, mind and soul - the place of ‘ultimate liberation’. A place where there is infinite joy, peace & happiness and where total freedom has been achieved from the continual cycle of rebirth, karma and suffering. This is what it means to work for the ultimate ‘liberation’ of all beings. When we set our intention for the ultimate ‘liberation’ of all, we are intending that the energetic vibration of all beings be raised and purified to the point where they are no longer needing to experience suffering in any way whatsoever.
As we delve deeper into this concept of suffering i.e. to find the root causes, we are often led to an understanding that almost all suffering comes from a lack of purity, love, peace or understanding. For example, by not understanding the one-ness of all things and our own truly infinite & divine nature, many of us believe that we are just this physical body. As such, we spend our life performing actions that are based on intentions of excessive self cherishing e.g. actions based in attachment, greed, aversion, anger, ignorance and pride to name but a few.
This is a truly sad state of existence where our deepest desire is to bring happiness into our life but where our intentions and actions seem to lead us towards lower vibrational states and more suffering. And this is what is often referred to as being caught or ‘trapped’ in the karmic cycle of existence.
In many spiritual traditions, it is believed that a living being will continue to take rebirth until the soul has cleansed or purified all of its karmic debts. It is also believed that doing good actions (those that are based in love, kindness & compassion) help to accumulate good karmic merit and therefore these help the soul to ascend into higher and more harmonious vibrational states. In this way, we are all on our journey back to a state of infinite & divine purity.
If we continue this journey upwards, we reach a place of absolute purity of body, mind and soul - the place of ‘ultimate liberation’. A place where there is infinite joy, peace & happiness and where total freedom has been achieved from the continual cycle of rebirth, karma and suffering. This is what it means to work for the ultimate ‘liberation’ of all beings. When we set our intention for the ultimate ‘liberation’ of all, we are intending that the energetic vibration of all beings be raised and purified to the point where they are no longer needing to experience suffering in any way whatsoever.
