In 2012, I asked Sanat Kumara to tell us about what Sri Shankara called “the longing for liberation.”
Let me offer what Sri Shankara said and then Sanat.
“[The] longing for liberation is the will to be free from the fetters forged by ignorance — beginning with the ego-sense and so on, down to the physical body itself — through the realization of one’s true nature.” (1)
The will to be free from ignorance, to fulfill the purpose of life by discovering “one’s true nature.” Known thousands of years ago.
All things long for God. This longing is a sub-tidal thirst that nothing can satisfy but God herself (since it’s the Divine Mother we know and who takes us to the Father). (2)
Now here’s Sanat on the same subject:
Steve: I wonder if we have time before the program ends to discuss one more element of this whole equation. You’ve talked about the purpose of life, you’ve talked about the Divine Plan, you’ve talked about the Universal Laws. There’s one more design feature of life which comes into play here, and I hope I’m correct in saying this, and that is what has been called the longing for liberation, the urge to evolve, the desire to reunite with God, which some people say is built into us and keeps us moving towards God.
Is that correct, what I just said? And if so, could you elaborate a little bit on what’s been called the longing for liberation?
Sanat Kumara: Yes, you are correct. And I would be happy to address this longing, this yearning for freedom, for liberation, and, might I say, for reunion. Now, let us talk about this aspect of the Divine Plan and the birthing of the plan. Because it was, hmm, it was instilled within you by the Divine Mother feminine, and it was the counterbalance — that is the term we would use — it was the counterbalance to free will, to choice; not a cancellation and not an interference. But it was the counterbalance to free will.
So it is in many ways your internal compass. You have compasses that always point true north. Well, your yearning for liberation, your yearning for reunification, your yearning to return home, back to the One, to rid yourself of that illusion of separation, of isolation — which is very painful! — was the perfect assurance that at some juncture what you would do is the choice to align with the Law, with the Love, with the Mother-Father-One, so that you could catapult yourself forward, back home.
So, yes, it is an innate part of you. (3)
An innate part of us. I used to call it a “design feature” and here’s Sanat confirming that.
Our internal compass. I used to think of it as a homing beacon. Either way the implication is clear that we can follow the direction of our yearning. It’ll lead us unerringly back to the One.
Footnotes
(1) Shankara in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher lsherwood, Shankara’s Crest-Jewel of Discrimination. Hollywood: Vedanta Press, 1975; c1947, 36.)
Pseudo-Dionysius said of it:
“All things long for [God]. The intelligent and rational long for it by way of the stirrings of being alive and in whatever fashion befits their condition.” (Pseudo-Dionysius in Cohn Luibheid, trans., Pseudo-Dionysus, His Complete Works. New York and Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1989, 54.)
See “Ch. 7. The Longing for Liberation” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf
(2) On the subject of capitals: “We do not want anything capitalized.” (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Aug. 12, 2016.)
On the subject of the Mother being all we’ll know:
Steve Beckow: Why is the knowledge of you “more precious than rubies”?
Divine Mother: Well, first of all, it is the way that human beings can express how they know me. But knowledge of me is more precious than anything because I am your connection [to the Father]. When you are with me in the fullness of union, as full as you can know it while in form, then you are connected, and in, not only my creation, but my wisdom and my love. And in that is all. It is all you need to know or can know or will know. (“The Divine Mother: Come to Me as I Come to You – Part 1/2,” Oct. 17, 2012 at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/10/17/the-divine-mother-come-to-me-as-i-come-to-you-part-12/.)
(3) “Sanat Kumara on the Purpose of Life, the Universal Law, and the Longing for Liberation,”June 6, 2012 at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/06/06/sanat-kumara-on-the-purpose-of-life-the-universal-law-and-the-longing-for-liberation/.
Here are other statements of it:
Your design, the design that I have imbued you with, is that we are connected and one. And your greatest dream and desire is to be in unity and ultimately reunification so any sense of separation is what you think of as pain. And it is true. It is genuine. (“Transcript – The Divine Mother: Take Up Your Divine Authority (Repost),” June 9, 2019, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/06/09/transcript-the-divine-mother-take-up-your-divine-authority-repost/.)
Your quest for knowledge and the truth can never really be satisfied until you reach the ultimate – The Source of All That Is. However, you will have innumerable experiences before you ever reach that point. You have yet to understand the concept of a never-ending creation. You will never run out of new challenges in the Multi Universes and dimensions that seem to go on for all infinity. (SaLuSa, Feb. 23, 2009 at http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm .)
When one has [a longing for] this inner quest, all else falls by the wayside: relationships, jobs, those things….. One simply KNOWS this is it! (“Judith Kusel: The Quest,” March 17, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/03/17/judith-kusel-the-quest/.)
It’s this yearning that underpins all spiritual seeking: to discover for ourselves what we already intuit to be true— that there is more to life than we are currently perceiving. (Adyashanti, “The End of Your World,” Daily Om, at httpss://www.dailyom.com/cgi-bin/display/librarydisplay.cgi?lid=2262.)
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