Why Does The Self Not Always Remain Liberated?

Sage Dattatreya

Continued from here (Fleeting Samadhi)

KING JANAKA said:

Why dilate on these intervals? All happening will be brought to a standstill if intelligence be homogeneous. They are made possible when a certain harmony reigns in intelligence which ordinarily is repeatedly broken. Therefore the great founders of different systems of philosophy have said that the difference between the Self and intellect (individualistic) lies only in their continuity. Sugata (i.e., Buddha) considers Self to be the stream of Intelligence broken up, of course, at short intervals; Kanada says that it is intellect which is characteristic of the Self. Anyway, when once interruptions in the stream of Intelligence are admitted, it follows that these intervals between the various modifications of the intellect into objects, would represent its unmodified, original state. O Son of Kahoela, know that if one can become aware of these broken samadhis, no other samadhi need attract one.

The BRAHMIN YOUTH asked:

O King, why are not all liberated if their lives are so iridescent with momentary samadhi, if it be the enlightener of unmanifest void in sleep? Liberation is the direct result of unqualified samadhi. The Self being pure intelligence, why does it not recognize itself and remain always liberated? Ignorance is dispelled by pure intelligence, which is samadhi, and this is the immediate cause of salvation. Please tell me, so that all my doubts may be set at rest.