如何获得自由
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中文
自然界的一切事物都按照法则运行。无一例外。心灵以及外在自然中的一切，都受法则的支配和控制。
内在自然与外在自然，心灵与物质，都处于时间和空间之中，并受因果律的约束。
心灵的自由是一种幻觉。当心灵被法则控制和约束时，它怎么能够自由呢？
业力之法即因果之法。
我们必须变得自由。我们本是自由的；要做的只是认识到这一点。我们必须放弃一切奴役，一切任何形式的束缚。我们不仅必须放弃对尘世以及尘世上一切人与物的束缚，还必须放弃对天堂和幸福的一切观念的束缚。
我们被欲望绑缚于大地，同样也被绑缚于上帝、天堂和天使。一个奴隶无论是做人的奴隶、上帝的奴隶还是天使的奴隶，都是奴隶。
天堂的观念必须消逝。死后善人在天堂过永恒幸福生活的观念，是一个空洞的梦，没有丝毫意义或道理。凡有幸福之处，某时必有不幸随之而来。凡有快乐之处，必有痛苦。这是绝对确定的，每一个行为都以某种方式产生反作用。
自由的理念是唯一真正的解脱理念——从一切中解脱，从感官中解脱，无论是快乐还是痛苦，从善中解脱，也从恶中解脱。
不仅如此，我们还必须从死亡中解脱；而要从死亡中解脱，我们必须从生命中解脱。生命不过是死亡的一场梦。哪里有生命，哪里就有死亡；所以，如果你想摆脱死亡，就从生命中脱身吧。
如果我们愿意相信，只要有足够的信心，我们便永远是自由的。你就是灵魂，自由的、永恒的，永远自由，永远受福。拥有足够的信心，你便能在一瞬间获得自由。
一切处于时间、空间和因果之中的事物都是被束缚的。灵魂超越一切时间、一切空间、一切因果。被束缚的是自然，而非灵魂。
因此，宣告你的自由，成为你所是的——永远自由，永远受福。
时间、空间和因果，我们称之为摩耶（Maya）。
English
All things in nature work according to law. Nothing is excepted. The mind as well as everything in external nature is governed and controlled by law.
Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.
The freedom of the mind is a delusion. How can the mind be free when it is controlled and bound by law?
The law of Karma is the law of causation.
We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.
We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.
The idea of heaven must pass away. The idea of heaven after death where the good live a life of eternal happiness is a vain dream, without a particle of meaning or sense in it. Wherever there is happiness there must follow unhappiness sometime. Wherever there is pleasure there must be pain. This is absolutely certain, every action has its reaction somehow.
The idea of freedom is the only true idea of salvation—freedom from everything, the senses, whether of pleasure or pain, from good as well as evil.
More than this even, we must be free from death; and to be free from death, we must be free from life. Life is but a dream of death. Where there is life, there will be death; so get away from life if you would be rid of death.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Everything in time, space, and causation is bound. The soul is beyond all time, all space, all causation. That which is bound is nature, not the soul.
Therefore proclaim your freedom and be what you are—ever free, ever blessed.
Time, space, and causation we call Maya.
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