Tuesday, 9 January 2024

Inner Freedom - structural definitions

"Structure" here means a mental counterpart of some physical storage or structure. Words like "veils" or "layers" have a physical meaning - as objects or parts. Complexities and impurities are other words usually used to describe changes or residues. But their physical connotations are less immediate and direct.

Below are two definitions of structures blocking jīvanmukti or inner freedom. Removing them and preventing their re-generation, much like treating a disease and building future immunity to its recurrence, result in mental freedom, or regaining the eternal that is overlain by the structures.

In Saṃskṛta, using Yoga and Rāja Yoga/Sahaj Mārg idioms:
  1. prācīna saṁskāra bhoga
  2. navīna   saṁskāra niruddha
In English, using Daaji's idioms:
  1. Unwind/remove/clear old emotional residues and impressions
  2. Prevent new emotional residues and impressions
In English using J. Krishnamurti's idioms (not a direct translation of Saṃskṛta phrases):
  1. Relinquish existing self- and other- images
  2. Prevent new self- and other- images

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