Liberation Or Attainment

“Liberation cannot be achieved except by the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the Universal spirit. It can be achieved neither by yoga, nor by Sankhya (analysis), nor by the practice of religious ceremonies, nor by mere learning.”-Shankaracharya

But we say it can be achieved by evolution. The above quote is a classic Involutionary Inward Path view of Tradition. “Liberation” is here defined merely by “identifying” the individual Spirit with the universal spirit. However, this is not nearly enough, although Shankaracharya is right that yoga or analysis, ceremonies and learning (which are not that different in any case all being more or less defined in the Inward Path) won't get you there either. It won't get you there because it is a liberation of the human Mind-Soul into the “universal spirit” which was really an earlier and perhaps better version of the Jungian human unconscious as universal spirit.

For Real liberation, or rather, for Real Attainment of Godhood we must evolve all the way to Godhood through the “dreaded” and Spiritually Blockaded Evolutionary Outward Path of material evolution, leading to the “spiritual” ( really supermaterial) Supreme Object Godhood. This is not merely identifying with God, this is attaining Godhood.