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What is bondage and what is freedom?

Bondage is the unconscious identification with the mind's illusions, while freedom is the awakening to your eternal, unchanging essence that transcends all states of consciousness.

— Osho
According to Osho, bondage is unconscious identification with the changing mind—its doubts, dreams and pseudo‑methods (avidya)—which closes you and keeps you a slave, circling in birth and death. Freedom is awakening to the fourth (turiya), your unborn, ever‑present being, beyond waking, dream and sleep. It unfolds through prayerful receptivity, faithful doubt, and true methodology (vidya), not mere knowledge.

Being stuck means clinging to your shifting thoughts and tricks; being free means resting as the quiet you that watches everything, found by open-hearted asking and right guidance.