In plain words
Manas is a mixture of all the guṇas. At one time one guṇa has grown, at another time another. I resolve, "I must give him a rupee." We say, "For this I need no one's consent; it is my freedom." All this has nothing to do with freedom. Manas accepts, to some extent, his situation and his plea, and through that it is only a gift you give; it is not true freedom.
So there is no possibility of freedom in man at all. Justice Kastagiri said: a man takes a stick in his hand and does exercise. He may do it in his own compound. He may do it on his terrace. This may be freedom. If he takes that same stick and sits twirling it in the middle of the bazaar, the police will come, arrest him and put him in jail as a madman. Doing this on a public road is not freedom. It amounts to acting against the Government's rules and regulations. Doing it in his own compound, on his own terrace, is not freedom either. It is only his own liking. There is a great difference between liking and freedom. One may use liking according to the object, according to one's own interest. So, in any object, in any place, in any person, at any time, what comes from the feeling of one's heart is true freedom. It must arise from the heart. To leave the heart and think, on the strength of some worldly situation or other, "This is freedom", is freedom only in name; in conduct it has no freedom. For people who have reached a high level in human life, their powers of intellect have not simply come from somewhere. All of them have arisen from within themselves. At one time Arjuna questions Kṛṣṇa: ‘cañcalaṃ hi manaḥ kṛṣṇa pamādi balavadhṛḍham’, Kṛṣṇa! With this fickle Manas we are unable to achieve anything. If we are to win success in any task, however small, we must be steady of heart. We cannot achieve it with a fickle mind. We think, "I am very weak." We think, "I achieved it only through certain kinds of sādhana."
Students! Whoever achieves whatever, to think that one achieved it through another is Ajñāna.