"Freedom from" is an abstraction,t freedom is in observing "what is" and going beyond it. So can a brain that has evolved through time, that has accumulated thousands of experiences, that has been conditioned in various cultures, can such a mind be free, not in some utopian, religious sense of freedom, but actually living in this confused, contradictory world. Can your mind, as you know it, as you have observed it, can it be completely, both on the surface and deep inwardly, free. Because if you do not answer this question for yourselves, you shall always be living in the prison of time, time being the past, time being thought, time being sorrow. Therefore unless you really see the truth of this, you shall always live in conflict, in sorrow, in the prison of thought. Do regard this question, not what your religious teachers have said, not the Bible, the Upanishads, your priests, your social workers , Dear Abby, but what you think; what you say, which is far more important than all the books put together. It means that you yourself have to find the truth of this. Don't repeat what others have said but first find out for yourself, test it out for yourself, testing what you think, what you see, not what others have said. Then you are free from the "authority" ,not depending on any one .