Desire for Liberation (excerpt)

From Nome's Four Requisites:

"Erroneous interpretations of nonduality may lead one to assert that the desire for Liberation will foster or produce a continuance of duality, for it may posit the notion of something for which to search and the seeking for it. This, though, represents an error in reasoning due to lack of direct experience, for theire is no 'rule' that Liberation must be conceived or treated as if an objective goal apart from oneself. Since Knowledge of the Self is alone Liberation, ignorance is entirely self-imagined, the Self is forever non-objective, and Knowledge is One with Being, therefore, the desire for Liberation is actually a profound recognition of what truly is one's natural state and the discernment of what is not that natural state. Understanding this results in fervently seeking within. Within is the Self. The desire for Libeation leads one to inquire and to thus know the Self as it is, in which there is no duality whatsoever. For one who is to realize the Self, this inner, intense desire to realize and its corresponding search via Self-inquiry represent no duality or difficulty, but rather attention is focusd upon the nature of the seeker himself. When the nature of the seeker is known, revealing an utter absence of the individual and only the real Being of the SElf existing, the desire for Liberation has been fulfilled and vanishes on it's own. The desire for Liberation should be as intense as possible. If there is clear discrimination, all the force of the desire for happiness that drives the person's life while caught up in illusion becomes the intense desire for Liberation, as that Realization alone is full satisfaction, the fulfillment and the end of desire. The more intense the desire for Liberation the more ardently one will pursue the inquiry and the more adament one will be about retaining the freedom found through detachment and discrimination."