> In fact the whole Vedic tradition is based on this > Ishwarakoti power, where the realization of the Self > was seen in the context of manifestation and not > as separation from it. The idea of liberation, Mukti, > as we know it now, is a later idea It is as Sri Aurobindo points out in the Secret of the Vedas on Page 21, Doctrine of the Mystics And while the later Philosophies are books of Knowledge and make liberation the one supreme good, the Veda is a Book of Works and the hope for which it spurns our present bonds and littleness is perfection, self-achievement, immortality.