Sveccha does not mean freedom to act as you please, using your strength and possessions as you like, regardless of the rights of others. True Sveccha (freedom to act as one wishes) consists in taking a decision with your own mind, carrying it out in action and accepting the consequences, for good or ill, wholeheartedly. This is true freedom of will. The freedom that you desire in doing what pleases you should imply that equally freely you accept the consequences flowing from its fulfilment. Pareccha refers to what one does at the prompting or bidding of others and laments the consequences resulting from such actions, casting the blame on others for what one suffers. Aniccha refers to fortuitous happenings that occur without one s own willing or as a result of actions prompted by others and are accepted as providential.
Having got the precious human form, men must seek to live according to the true requirements of that form. It should be realised that man is not born to wallow in ignorance, poverty or sin. He is born for a higher destiny. He should live up to the role conferred on him. (SSS Vol.22)
In pursuing the Spiritual Path’, one should not get disinterested or indifferent at any stage. Devotion does not admit or rest on revulsion. Students should cultivate such devotion because they do not have sufficient control over their senses.
Students are inclined to regard to act as they like as their primary goal. But this is not real freedom. Unrestrained freedom is enjoyed by the animals. But how should a man and educated being, conduct himself? Sveccha (freedom of will) consists of the two words ‘Sva’ and ‘Iccha’. ‘Sva’ refers to the ‘Atma’ and ‘Sveccha means acting according to the dictates of the Spirit and not of the body. One must use one’s discriminating power to decide whether a thing is right or wrong and act according to the dictates of one’s conscience. That is true freedom of will. Only then can one have self-confidence. (D3, p. 73)