Sri M said ...

The ‘Self ’ is ever free, ever blissful. It is and was never bound; therefore, there is no question of making it free. It is always free. It manifests itself as the ‘I’, the consciousness, the ‘I’ that exists eternally in the waking state, dream state, and deep sleep, the ‘witness’ of all states of consciousness. This is the real ‘you’, the blessed, blissful ‘Self ’. The mind, borrowing the ‘I’ from it, mistakenly feels bound and attempts to make itself free.