Emancipation
The process of the gradual elevation of or liberation in service to the soul. Materially taken it means to become an equal to a certain standard of civilization. Spiritually it refers to the process of gradual liberation beginning with listening, speaking and remembering ending in friendship and finally surrender to the dictates of the soul (pict.). Filognostically it entails the internalization of the authority of the different teachers in the fields of science, spirituality and religion. Emancipation is so the evolution of devotion in one's relating to enlightenment. This consists of nine activities which are the result of the combination of the three different forms of uniting one's consciousness (in knowledge, in work and in voluntary service) and the three disciplines (of the impersonal - the ether -, the local - the material, and the personal - one's time-order).
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A more classical division more in accord with the vedic formulation is what is described in the following image:
Stages of development in devotion, the emancipatory actions needed thereto, and the vedic equivalent to it:
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- Vedic equivalent:bhagavata dharma; see also kanda (forms of yoga) and trisâdhana (disciplines).
See also:
- Talk by Aadhar 3-12-07: Emanicpation
- kanda (forms of yoga) en trisâdhana (disciplines).
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