Therefore bondage is when the mind desires or grieves for anything, rejects or accepts anything, feels happy or angry about anything.
Then freedom is when the mind does not desire nor grieve, does not reject nor accept, does not feel happy nor feel angry.
Therefore, bondage is when the mind is attached to any sense perception, and freedom is when the mind is unattached to all sense perceptions.
Where there is no egoic I, there is freedom. Where there is an egoic I, there is bondage. Knowing this, it is easy to neither accept nor reject anything.
~my unbound transcreation of Ashtavakra Gita 8.1-4 using the translations of Chinmayananda, Nityaswarupananda, Richards, Byrom, et al.
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