“Mukti or liberation means freedom from material consciousness. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam also the definition of liberation is given. “Muktir hitvanyatha-rupam svarupena vyavasthitih”: “mukti means liberation from the contaminated consciousness of this material world and situation in pure consciousness”.
All the instructions of Bhagavad-gita are intended to awaken this pure consciousness, and therefore we find at the last stage of the Gita's instructions that Krsna is asking Arjuna whether he is now in purified consciousness.
Purified consciousness means acting in accordance with the instructions of the Lord. This is the whole sum and substance of purified consciousness.
Consciousness is already there because we are part and parcel of the Lord, but for us there is the affinity of being affected by the inferior modes. But the Lord, being the Supreme, is never affected. That is the difference between the Supreme Lord and the conditioned souls.”
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